California Kickoff Recruiting Combine Part I
The steadiness for a quality serve reception is to be reviewed with a lot of talent in Northern California. The CA Kickoff Recruiting Combine featured leaders of movement, champions of awareness, and a focus on placement. Five players in five…
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Continue ReadingThe steadiness for a quality serve reception is to be reviewed with a lot of talent in Northern California. The CA Kickoff Recruiting Combine featured leaders of movement, champions of awareness, and a focus on placement. Five players in five installments will be highlighted for this event.
These players coordinated parts from their legs to arms to body to cover a variety including a strong majority of floating serves. From their movements, traits of power and control exhibited during and after contact. While playing with mostly strangers, there was no short of a showcase of ambition and skill.
They are ready and poised to handle simple and complex movement. Part of the talent combined with trained movements was impressive.
Amanda Torres (2025) | 5’5 DS/L | Mid-Coast Volleyball Club
Float servers might want more wrist snap when closed to Amanda Torres. The steering she does with her arms leaves little margin for error. Amanda Torres is ready for any movement on the serve. She passes an ankle height ball as well as a serve at hip height. Torres will face the server throughout the flight of the ball to her. She is mobile, bringing value to a serve receive lineup facing a knuckling serve.
Jordan DeGuzman (2023) | 5’2 DS/L | Infinity Training Volleyball Club
Alongside DeGuzam, passers will need not worry about a serve coming to the right of their body. Her footwork is a good setup for a capable reception at her starting point with range in front as well. DeGuzman showed that range on dropping float serve with feet moving first. The assertiveness of her position also leaves no question for teammates adding value to team communication.
Ellery La Fever (2024) | 5’6 DS/L | Morgan Hill Volleyball Club
Locked in. To describe Ellery La Fever is any other way is omitted her discipline to lineup with a serve and track the ball. La Fever committed to a movement and left no doubt the general direction a received serve will travel. A challenge from jump servers is certainly a contest for her to step up on the court to.
Holly Nguyen (2025) | 5’3 DS/L | Bay Area Volleyball Club
Holly Nguyen has the potential for absorbing powerful and mighty serves. She contacts close to her body delivering an accuracy that can frustrate opponents.. When continuing to keep the ball in front of her, her performance is certainly at a peak. Nguyen also showed great range with big shuffle steps to allow her to keep that ball close to her body in serve receive.