My daughter plays volleyball

Last night my dear friend Nancy and I drove to near Gainesville, GA, to watch our varsity girls' team play in a tournament. I even got a little movie of Mary Lee serving - naturally, with this old camera, it ended right before she got in the second serve, but it's better than nothing:

The first team we played looked young and like they might not be much of a match for our girls. They turned out to be surprisingly good (mostly due to one girl in particular who could hit anything that came anywhere near her) but our girls beat them in a game that we won fairly easily but was still good competition. The second team looked very athletic, especially during warmups, and the consensus of the parents on the bleachers was that this team would be a bigger challenge. Our first girl goes up to serve, and this other team watches the ball fall on their side of the court. Our first girl served the first nine points. The other team did a little better as the match went on, but they would not even have been good competition for a JV team, even with their apparent athletic build and size. You just can't tell until you get into a game what it's going to be like.