KISD/CFISD Tournament Top Performers – Liberos

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><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></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><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'll be sharing the positional top performers from the teams I was fortunate to watch, and now it's time we show some love for the liberos who stood out.</p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"id":"block_62fbc46e73e0b","name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["176662"],"_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":"One of the most reliable and consistent liberos in the region, Hopkins put on another tremendous performance, making it to the All-Tournament Team. She's extremely technical and quick, but the two things that most contribute to her incredible production are her positioning and ball control. 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