Volume 3/March Ace Report LETTER FROM THE COACH: FALL REGULAR SEASON great fun. For more details, or We have been back in action and SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED would like to enter your progressing well! I am starting foursome, please call Coach to see improvements athletically 8/20 ALUMNAE MATCH Siedlik at 399-2607. already with our team in 8/26-27 Northwestern Tournament morning workouts. A big thanks (Orange City, IA) CSM HIGH SCHOOL 9/2-3Columbia College to Xplosive Edge and their crew SUMMER LEAGUE Tournament (Columbia, MO) th on pushing the players to do 9/6 YORK COLLEGE CSM’s 9 Annual High School their best. Also a huge thank you 9/9 DORDT COLLEGE Summer League will be held to those that attended this last 9/10 Hastings College every Sunday and Monday in seasons banquet held on 9/13 Peru State College June and the two weekends in February 13. It was a great time 9/16 HASKELL UNIVERSITY July, omitting the weekend of as always. Some more 9/20 BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY Independence Day. Sunday’s important information is posted 9/23-24 CENT. CC/NEWMAN league is already at 17 teams! 9/27 University of Kearney in this month’s issue. 9/30-10/1 Oklahoma WeslOzarks Get in your teams for a reserved Coach Siedlik 10/7 Haskell Univ. spot! Please email 10/8 Park Univ. MAY CHANGE [email protected] or call Coach MORE RECRUITS 10/11 York College Siedlik at 399-2607. I am pleased to announce that we 10/18 PERU STATE COLLEGE have three new faces joining the 10/21-22 MCAC Midseason CSM SUMMER HIGH team this fall. Leslie Reeh, a (NU, CofO, CCC, OW) SCHOOL TOURNAMENT 5’10 rightside/middle hitter from 10/28-29 PREMIER CLASSIC This summer the College of (Columbia, National American, Alliance, Nebraska, and a Lee, Olivet, St. Francis (IN)) Saint Mary is hosting their first transfer from Western Nebraska 11/2 PARK UNIVERSITY ever High School Summer Community College. Leslie will 11/4 Bellevue University Tournament. CSM Volleyball be a junior majoring in Nursing. **HOME MATCHES IN CAPS will be inviting all high schools Michelle Badalucco from Omaha CHANGES IN RED in Nebraska and Iowa to the Lied is a 5’7 defensive/outside hitter. Center, the home of the She is a junior in her academic nationally ranked Flames, in standing, but will be a freshman REMINDERS: Omaha, NE. Each Class is in eligibility. She is also a SPRING TOURNAMENTS designated one day of Nursing major. Krystal Smith, a DATES ANNOUNCED competition (approximately 5 5’11 rightside/outside CSM will be playing in three matches). Only 10 teams per sophomore is originally from college spring tournaments. division. Questions, email Raymond Central High School April 1 will be at Midland [email protected] or please call and is a transfer from Iowa Lutheran in Fremont. Matches Coach Siedlik at 399-2607. Western. She is a Business will run on time and will start at 4:00pm. April 2 the team will major. These three will also join MEET THE FLAMES already signed, Emilie Varley for then travel to UNK to face top the Class of 2005. competition at both NAIA and Division II levels. April 16 JUSTA WALL, junior next year from Aurora, Nebraska. CHANGE THE DATE!!! CSM will attend the Hastings We have moved our golf outing College Spring Tournament. What have you learned since to June 24, 2005. This was Times for all tournaments will be coming to CSM? originally planned for July 8, but announced once set. Hardwork and dedication really due to conflicts we have changed pays off. Being on the sidelines it. It will still be held at 2005 GOLF OUTING is just as important as being on Tregaron Golf Course. A dinner CSM’s Annual Golf outing will the floor and when asked to step will follow in the clubhouse. be June 24 at Tregaron Golf in, giving it a 110% all the time. However, our usual auction will Course in Bellevue. We will not be held. I encourage all of have a dinner following the What would be a nice you to get a foursome in this outing, but will not sponsor a accomplishment for you next years spectacular event and for a live auction. Our goal is to have season? great cause. We anticipate the a very friendly get-together Try to bring out the best in weather being a great one! Help fundraiser for the CSM “Family” myself and who ever is around support the Flames Volleyball so that our athletes can meet and me and as a player and as a team! Great fun for the whole greet all those that support our person. CSM Family! program. I encourage all of you that have participated in the past to get your teams in again for Ace Report What is your favorite thing to do had my days where I just wanted a team that works their hardest after a match? to give up and let it go. But, on and off the court to reach Sleep and eat. Like to eat then I had that little voice in the goals that we have set, and we'll bananas, grapes, green apples, back of my head telling me that do anything it takes to and chicken alfredo at I've worked this hard all accomplish them. Applebee's and Olive Garden. throughout high school to get where I'm at now, why give up What do you do to prepare you MANDY KREIKEMEIER, now when a little obstacle gets in for a match? I prepare for a redshirt freshman next year the way? Throughout all my match by getting into the mind from West Point, Nebraska disappointments this season with set of competing and striving for my injury, my huge support a victory. I help my teammates What was something you learned came from my teammates--they by encouraging 110% effort the most last season? kept me sane and helped me get throughout the match and Last season was probably one of to where I am right now--on my playing until the last point. the hardest things I've ever had way to playing once again and to do. Sitting out my freshman with them. What is something you will year in college was both a heart- remember about your experience breaker and an eye-opener for What will be the first thing you here 5 years from now? me. Something I learned that I want to accomplish when you The best thing about being a part thought was very important from step on the court? of this CSM volleyball team is last season would probably be When I step on the court, the the friendships that I have the fact that college volleyball is first thing I developed with each of the girls a whole different game than in want to change is my attitude and coaches. They have all high school. College is more about the game. I've always impacted my life in one way or about strategy and positioning been one to be hard on myself another that will never be and 'volleyball smartness', unlike and to expect the best out of forgotten. high school where I was just myself all the time. So, my taught to hit the ball as hard as I ultimate goal is to be happy could. I never learned how to tip while playing and keep a good LET US KNOW WHO TO to the deep corners, actually attitude. Sports are so much SEND THIS TO! come to think of it, I never more fun when there are smiles Email [email protected] to add tipped at all in high school--why passed from one teammate to any future fans! pass up a hit to tip? By being another. I expect to change my able to watch each and every attitude with, of course, the help game from the sidelines, I got of my dependable teammates the chance to see first-hand who have always been there for exactly what I was expected to me this past year. do when I come back. Seeing the game helped me realize what I needed to work on and what I CHRISTI HUIGENS, senior needed to change before I got the next year from Sioux City, IA chance to play with my injury. I will never take for granted What would you tell a high again the playing time I get school player about the CSM because I went nuts not being Volleyball Program? able to play volleyball for about If I was to talk to a high school 9 months. player about our volleyball program, the first thing I would What was one feeling that kept tell her about is the amazing you motivated this past season unity we have between the despite your injury? The team players. Success doesn't come was the greatest supporter of me without teamwork, and first of all, but one of my teamwork doesn't come without feelings that kept me motivated unity. The reason we are was my drive to play. I live for successful is because we're all on sports, and not being able to play the same page, working toward this last season caused me to be a the same goal while encouraging stronger person. Without each to do their best and playing volleyball for that long, I accepting nothing less. We have