Show Me Qualifier: Five Texas Setters to Watch

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Bid season continues at full pace in the club volleyball season and week in and week out, teams from everywhere in the US fly over the country to compete in National Qualifiers with the goal of booking a spot at June's USA Volleyball Girls National Championship.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This week, the destination of many teams will be Kansas City, Missouri, where the first of two weekends of the traditional ASICS Show Me Qualifier will take place from Friday to Sunday - 731 teams are entered to compete in the ten divisions in the 15s, 16s and 17s age group.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Texas teams will, of course, also make the trip North to fight for their spots and, as we've been doing with every major Qualifier, we'll highlight some of the top prospects of the Lone Star State that will be on the court over the weekend. Keep an eye out for these setters:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":["not_in_db"],"_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"field_62cca28ffa4e7","player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"[player_tooltip player_id='762434' first='Molly' last='Aubert']","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"field_62aba4c9ecf2f","player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"2027","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"field_62aba4ddecf30","player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"5'9u0022","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"field_62aba4e8ecf31","player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"32561","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"field_62aba4f0ecf32","player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"Lake Country Christian","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"field_62aba4fdecf33","player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"[program_tooltip program_id='431308' first='Texas' last='Advantage']","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"field_62d20e723441a","player_evaluations_0_player_details":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details":"field_62aba4afecf2e","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"Aubert will be with TAV 15 Black Fifer in the 15 Open division in Kansas City. She's a setter with sound technical skills, who handles her playmaking duties extremely well and also contributes in other areas of the game. Aubert's touch on the ball is extremely clean and she does a very good job of keeping her motion the same regardless of where she's setting, making it difficult for opposing blockers to read her. She's also very good at setting the ball to the right from anywhere on the court, something most setters of her age group can't do at the level she does. 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