KISD/CFISD Tournament Top Performers – Defensive Specialists

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The high school volleyball season started at full pace in the state of Texas and a massive number of matches were played in the opening week alone, several of them in varsity tournaments that took place all over the Lone Star State.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>One of them was the Katy ISD/Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Varsity Tournament, which reunited as many as 48 teams from the Houston area and beyond for three days of competition across eight high schools in the region between Thursday and Saturday.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I was at the Katy Taylor and the Cinco Ranch high schools on the opening day and watched the matches at Tompkins on Friday, being able to see in person 22 different teams across the two days. During the week, I've been sharing the positional top performers from the teams I was fortunate to watch, and in the final piece of the series, let's honor the defensive specialists.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"id":"block_62fd77eb53f78","name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["192639"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"The 5'7u0022 Murillo strongly upgraded Klein Collins' backcourt game when she was on the court. She did an excellent job digging everything that went her way on position 5 and impressed with her ability to control hard-driven hits. 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