TicketsJune 30, 2010
The University of Cincinnati volleyball team is currently embarking on a 12-day journey through Brazil where the team will play against Brazilian teams while experiencing the Brazilian culture firsthand. Below is the most recent update on the trip from sophomore Karen Onuki.
Day 8:
Hi people this is Karen! Today was such a long day. We got up very early to leave Sao Jose de Campos and go to the Brazilian training center for volleyball. We spent over six hours on the bus watching all sorts of movie from Avatar to Forest Gump!
The training center here is AMAZING. There is an ocean on one side (well right across the street) and beautiful mountains when you look the other way. Everything is super close together from the dorms where we are staying to the gym, to the café. Nothing is more than a 15 second walk! The volleyball courts are really nice too and they have pictures of their players on the wall, which adds a nice touch!
We played the Brazilian Youth Team today. We played five sets and won all five! All the players for their youth team are 16 years old. They are such a young team, but they have power and speed. They were great at serve receive too. We struggled a bit at times, especially in the first set, but then we started to get better on defense which helped a lot.
Tomorrow, we will play some doubles on the sand court here and everyone is so excited!!! Hopefully tomorrow is going to be a great day again!
Tchau!