Year
2003
Spring-Summer
October 23
Last Day Of The 2003 Regular
Season
It gets dark early in late October, so all the photos are dim and the action
shots are abstracts
worthy
of Picasso as the shutter slowed down to compensate for the low light and
the action moved as
fast as
ever. Athletes in the final regular season photo above are Ed, Ron,
Leo, Betty, Steve and Richard.
Kathy doing
the lens clicking honors.
Next week will begin our experiment with indoor play at Cohn Community
Ed Center. We have a
court next
Thursday, October 30, from 5:30 to 7:30 and possibly later if no one else
wants to use it. If you
haven't
already signed up you can do it at Cohn. Just bring $10 and give
it to Ron.
See you next Thursday, October 30, at high 5:30 for our first
ever indoor season! Get excited!
Click
here for a map to Cohn from our old playing grounds in front of Outback
Steakhouse.
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| Betty and
Steve are caught in a tableau of balletic
beauty in the dim light of the October afternoon. |
Ed is ready to roll. |
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| Steve and Ed set up to return
to Leo and Ron.
Until Betty and Kathy showed up it was a very tough two on two. |
Kathy seems to be engaged in
a martial art exercise
somewhere in the orient in this blurry, but not uninteresting, frozen moment in time. |
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| Leo and Ron set it up. | Ron goes up. |
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| Steve hussles. | Ed hussles as Steve sets him up. |
October 16
The
old facilitator, Richard, was off at Kentucky Lake trying to coax the crappie
to bite, so there
are
no photos to exhibit. There were seven valiant athletes to play,
however. Steve, Tom, Ed, Betty,
Kathy,
Leo, and Ron.
October 9
A Good Day To Play And Six Who
Showed
The clouds rolled in around 4pm and they got heavier and more threatening
as it got later. But the day was
warm and
there was little wind, so by 5:30 we had a dedicated crew of six playing
and the rain held off until
dark.
Above you see an almost perfect picture of some really dedicated athletes:
Ron, Mei, Steve, Ed, Mark,
and Leo.
Richard at the shutter.
We hope some of you no-shows will make an effort to get here next week. We had some remarkably good volleys with 3 on 3, but 4 on a side is better--it doesn't leave so much real estate open. Hope to see you then.
Reminder--we'll be signing up players for fall and winter play at the Cohn
School Gymnasium next week. Cost
is $10
each for a full semester of play. Our playing time will be Thursday
from 5:30 to 7:30. We have scholarship money available if the
cost is a problem. The hard core players above all plan to sign up,
but we'll need at least
four to
six more to avoid missing a game because of absentees. So bring your
wallet next week and sign up!
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| Mark, Steve,
and Ed made a good team. Here Ed
makes a big effort and nearly goes down. |
On the other side,
Ron and Mei watch
Leo's return shot. |
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| Steve and Ed watch Mark make a big save. | Mei serenely makes the shot. |
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| Leo and Mei watch as Ron sets it up. | Ed and Mark wait for Steve's setup shot. |
October 2
The Few, The Proud, The Cold...
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| Colleen
and Dexter. They enjoyed the play and
may come back with Dexter's other human, Jason. |
Betty never goes half way. |
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| Ron, Mei, and Leo. "FORE!" | Steve, Betty, and Tom were hot
(figuratively)
all afternoon.. |
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| Leo has been studying Mei's style. Ron watches. | Ron watches Mei who
evidently didn't
watch the ball! |
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| Mei gives a pretty smile for
the folks back home.
She said it seldom gets below freezing where she comes from and can often get up to 100 degrees in the summer. Sounds like West End in August! |
Mei, Ron, and Leo
had a hard time handling
the Steve, Betty, and Tom crowd. They did finally take the last game. |
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| Steve played one of
his best games of the
year. Maybe he's a cold natured sort. |
Tom hauls out to get a hard one. |
September 25

Once again, things were slow getting started, but when Kathy and Tom got
there the game was on.
Leo has
used the equipment for his annual "six hours of drunken mayhem disguised
as Volleyball,"
but despite
some misplaced stakes and bunge cords we found it all intact, despite Mark's
accusations.
Then we
got the "Italian Stallion," Gianguido Coffa, who just happened to be passing
by (call him
Gian which
you pronounce "John" ). Finally, Denver Bowers, a friend of Ed's
rolled in and it was 5/5 of
really
good players.
Above are Susan, who helped hold down the sidelines with Richard, Mei,
just over a cold but a real
sport,
Gian, Leo, Ron, Tom, Denver, Kathy, Mark, Betty, and Ed.
Weather was perfect. Days getting much shorter now. But again,
a very pleasant afternoon in a
remarkably
dry fall.
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| Tom, Betty, and Leo. | Denver and Ed. (See Who's Who.) |
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| Ron, Mei, Gian, and Tom. | Kathy and Mark. |
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| Gian shows he can get up there. (See Who's Who.) | Leo pounds one. |
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| Mark gets up and Kathy backs him. | Mei shows her pure form for Mark and Gian. |
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| Ron and Mark. | Betty watches in awe as Tom shows his paces. |
September 18

Eight good players showed up, including Ed Brown, a new recruit who works
with Ann Morrison. There were
some dandy
games and the level of play was high. As we feared Peter wasn't able
to show with his bum ankle
and Jeannine
stayed away to help him drown his pain. Those that did make it are
Ron, Steve, Betty, Ed, Tom, Richard, Mei, Leo, and Mark. Photo by
lawn ornament supreme, Susan.
Lots of fun and interesting stuff going on, including a return visit by
those madcap Red Bull girls, Noelle and Cara, a brief stop by by Allie,
who may return to play next week, and a long visit by Jeanne and her pop,
Yang.
The days
are dwindling down to a precious few, as the song says, so be sure to come
on out and join us in this wonderful fall weather next week. See
you at high 5pm! Be there, or be SQUARE!!!
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| The
Red Bull girls pep up the flagging
athletes. That's Noelle, left, and Cara making a ham-on-rye sandwich with Ron. |
Susan and Allie helped
Richard guard the cooler
and take photos. Allie's from Indiana and works at Vandy Hospital. Hey, single guys! |
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| Ed gets way up there. He's
played this
game before! |
Betty and Leo. Jeanne and pop watch. |
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| Mark levitates. | Tom and Mark back up Mei. |
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| Steve. | Ed comes up fast to help Ron. |
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| Tom gets high. Leo and Betty poise for action. | Jeanne and Yang. |
September 11
| Big news
of the week was the birth
of baby Elizabeth Frazier Jones (Ellie) to Chip and Betsy. Betsy was Ms. Volley 2000 and for many years one of our most faithful players. Ellie was pretty rough on Momma during the pregnancy, so we are all glad to know that they are both in great shape. Be sure to send Chip, Betsy, and Ellie your best wishes by clicking here. |
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The
Hard Core Hangs In
As you can see we had Leo, Kris, Peter, Ron, Steve, Jeannine, Betty, Kathy,
and, of course,
Richard
is welding the camera.
Well, these are the last days of Summer and evidently a lot of players
have things to do and places to
go.
So it was the hard core of dependable athletes who started today.
Even then we had only seven
players
until Kris showed up (he told his wife he was going to the store).
Despite all this the games
were great
and the weather was perfect. A fun incident was the arrival of the
Red Bull girls with free
samples
of their "energy drink" which was sampled by several of the more energy
needy athletes. A not-fun
incident
was the injury to Peter's ankle, which we hope will heal soon. We
were lucky to have two nurses on
hand and
Jeannine and Kathy soon had Peter in Steve's comfortable chair with his
ankle encased in bags of
the ice
thoughtfully provided by Leo. So make a vow to be on hand next week
since we are running out of
battle
ready hard core athletes. Especially if Peter has to sit it out on
the side with Richard. See you then.
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| Betty takes
one over her head and Peter
stand ready to back up. . |
A few of our energy
depleted athletes enjoyed a
free "pick up" when the Red Bull Girls arrived. |
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| Betty and Ron. | Kris and Kathy. |
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| Kathy, Leo, and Kris. | Ron and Jeannine. |
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| Steve. | Steve serves a sky
ball while Kathy, Kris,
and Leo wait for the return. |
September 4
Facilitator
Richard off on a trip to a wedding in Ft. Myers, Florida. So no pics
today. Reports say we
had a light
turnout with only seven athletes on hand. We need YOU to show up
in these last good days
of the
year. There won't be any games on Thursday after daylight saving
time ends and think how
you'll
regret missing out on the ones we have left! So show up and enjoy
this best part of the year.
August 28

Things were
slow getting started, but when Tommy and Beth showed up at 5:30 we had
enough for four
on a side
and some very good games. It was one long volley after another and
close all the way. Taking
a break
from the hot action are Ron, Tommy, Beth, Steve, Betty, Peter, Leo, Susan,
and Jeannine. Photo by
the injured
facilitator, Richard. Susan is on injured reserve as well, so she
could enjoy watching with Richard.
All in
all a very pleasant afternoon with good friends and healthful exercise.
What else is better?
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| Steve and Betty. | Jeannine. |
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| Steve, Peter, and Tommy. | Leo and Jeannine. |
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| Peter and Tommy. | Ron and Beth. |
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| Steve. | Susan whiles away the time with Richard. |
August 21

A very nice
gathering on a sultry day. Beth was back from school in Austria.
Tommy was there. Adam
stopped
by looking fat and happy with a mysterious female person. And the
usual suspects filled out the
lineup.
Scrunching down on the left is Leo, then Tommy, Steve, mysterious lady,
Adam, Peter, Jeannine,
Tom, Betty,
Mei, Kathy, and Beth. The loyal and true but injured facilitator,
Richard, is taking the photos.
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| Adam Laughbaum
showed up with a very
mysterious young lady who claimed to know him. Very interesting..........! |
Beth came back with
a vengeance. Here
she whacks the daylights out of the ball while Jeannine and Kathy watch in awe. |
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| Jeanne, whose Chinese name is
Tiantian, which
means "sweet," came to watch with Pop, Guangyong Yang, who couldn't play due to his more important job of baby sitting. |
Betty gets high and Steve looks on. |
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| Jeannine gets off a sky ball. | Kathy is a blur of
speed while Tom
marvels. |
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| Over the head with perfect form--Mei's
trademark.
Steve admires from a distance. |
Peter and Leo duke it out at the net. |
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| Steve gets one while Mei backs up. | Tom beats Kathy to
a line drive while
Beth poises to help. |
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| Tommy arches one back
over while and
Peter waits. |
Beth shows her concentration. |
August 14

A fairly
slim turnout. Who knows what happens? Last week we played 6
and 7 on a side. This
week we
had 7 players--but GOOD ONES!!! We also had the annual visit by Cherry
Manning
who brought
an old Methodist Publishing House friend, Charlie McGinnis. So we
had a good time
and got
to visit and if you weren't there you missed it. Shown above are
Steve, Charlie, Cherry, Ron,
Peter,
Leo, Jeannine, Betty, and Mark. Richard, the hurt one, is clicking
the shot.
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| Cherry
Manning, who is the favorite for
"Worst Attendance" again this year, showed up to the delight and suprise of one and all. |
Betty gets high. |
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| Jeannine and Peter wait while Leo lines one up. | Oh, no! |
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| Leo moves out to get Peter's rising shot. | Mark moves in a Monet landscape. |
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| Steve gets high while Mark waits
for the return
and Ron backs up. |
A moment frozen in time. |
August 7

A good group
showed up and made a pretty photo. Above are Jeff, Ron, Kathy, Leo,
Peter, Tom, Tommy,
Betty,
Mei, Mark, and Jeaninne. Taking a break somewhere is Zhongjun and
Richard is clicking the
shutter.
A beautiful day and the great weather continues but, as we know, we'll
have to pay for it. But
probably
not for a long time. Come on out next week and help us enjoy it.
See you then!
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| Leo waits and Kathy watches as Betty whacks one. | The girls
showed up in force today--Kathy,
Betty, Mei and Jeannine. . |
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| Betty and Kathy wait and Ron watches as Jeannine puts one up. | Jeff goes up and Tom and Betty take notes. |
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| Tommy, Ron, and Betty watch Kathy's style. | Leo shows that he has studied Mei's technique. |
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| Betty, Jeff, and Leo mix it up. | Mark shows Ron and Jeannine how
old timers
do it. |
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| Mei awes Tommy and Mark. | The usual suspects go at it. |
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| Tommy goes high for an over the
head backwards
shot after which he did a triple flip. |
Tom gets high and pounds the
net, only it was last
week. Still, it's a good shot and we needed one to make things come out right. |
July 31
Disaster Strikes!
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| Darn near everybody in this shot.
Watching the magic
ball are Ron, Mei, Raj, Leo, Tom, and Mark. |
Kathy shows Peter and Raj how it's done. |
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| Leiott shows a pretty smile after
a near miss of
the grim reaper. Glad she decided to stay. |
Mei shows her usual grace and
skill as
Ron takes notes. |
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| New recruit, Raj, showed up in the nick of time. | Ron gets high. |
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| Tom goes up for one while Raj
and Mark get
ready for the return. |
Jeff and Mark at the net.
Last weeks best shot
helps fill out the frame. |
July 24

Today was the day Amanda Hamilton (aka Heaven Lee) made her debut.
She did very well for a
person
who is certainly in her 70's and maybe more! Of course, that age
is getting to be younger and younger
as I approach
it.
We also had an interesting interlude when Daniel Donelson, the mad trail
biker, rode onto the court
doing a
handstand on the handlebars and whistling a jaunty tune.
Above is the group photo which was not so hot (nevershoot in half sun/half
shade. But a witness to history
was obtained
as we see the players of the day starting with Leo, Tom, Jeff, Ron, Jeannine,
Peter, Amanda,
Tommy,
Steve, Mark, and Ting. Richard, as usual, was the shooter.
The weather was so nice it made you
wonder
when we will have to pay. Will it hit 100 degrees in December?
Will the earth open and swallow us,
court and
all? Stay tuned...
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| Amanda got a good start on her
first outing. Here
she shows the form that made her a living legend during her golden days as Heaven Lee on Printer's Alley. |
Putting
in a spectacular first appearance is prospect
Daniel Donelson on his faithful bike Tonto. |
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| Mark reaches for one while Amanda,
Ting, and
Peter just hope and pray he knows what he's doing. |
Peter, Amanda, and Mark wait for a sign from the sky. |
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| Tommy goes up while Mark, and Jeff wait for it. | Tom whacks one while Jeannine,
Ron, Tommy,
and Amanda watch in awe. |
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| Mark goes high against Jeff while
Tom
bites his lip in anxiety. |
Steve gets one over to Peter
and Jerry as Tommy
waits in reserve. Yes, this was from last week, but I needed one to fill out the frame! |
July 17

The game following our big exposure on Channel
2 Weather was great. All the usual suspects
plus one
absentee
(Tommy) and one new kid (Jerry). Spirited games, good weather, and
a fine gathering of folks. What
more could
one want? Posing above are Steve, Tommy, Peter, Ron, Jerry, Gan,
Zhongjun, Jeannine, Mei,
Mark, Kathy,
and Leo. Richard, the facilitator, is the shutterbug.
One fun thing that didn't get photographed was a pregame visit by my former
Pilates teacher, McLean
McGowan,
who lives nearby. She says she may become an actual player since
her Thursday afternoons will
be free
very soon. She brought her tiny Pomeranian, Poo Poo, who immediately
added his bit to the Acklen
Park fertilizer
pool. He's so cute!
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| Tommy shows us what jumping is all about. | In a rare
public appearance, Ann Morrison came to cheer
on the athletes and give Richard the dirt on some of Mark's more bizarre personal habits! |
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| Jeff slips the surly bonds of earth. | Jeff sets to Jerry who sets to
spike one
to Tommy, who waits like a jungle cat. |
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| Jerry shows some bounce while
Gan
and Mark giggle. |
Tommy goes high to block Ron's
shot
while Kathy comes up in support. |
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| Mark goes high while Tommy, Steve,
and Leo wait in anguished tension. |
Steve gets one over to Peter
and Jerry as Tommy
waits in reserve. |
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| Abby and Jeannine unsheath the ivories. | Tommy clowns with the official
vampire
stake pounding mallet. |
July 10

It rained around 2pm, but by 5 o'clock the field of play was excellent.
Oh, there were banks of black cloud blowing by, but our luck held and we
had a great day for play. Above in their sweat stained glory are
Zhongjun, Peter, Jeannine whispering secrets to Leo, Ting, Jeff, Gan Ding,
Steve, Mark, Kathy, and Ron. Facilitator
Richard
wields the mighty Polaroid!
Big
event of the day! Channel 2 cameraman
stopped off and taped the play. It appeared as a little snippet on
the 10pm
weather. No, it's not the big time--YET!
But wait until the cable talent scouts start calling for the
newest
new thing--THE APVA REALITY SHOW!!!
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| Giving it his all for the Channel
2 boys, Ron flys high
while Gan, Jeannine, and Zhongjun play backup. |
Ting watches
as Kathy gets ready to take
the challenge. |
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| Ting gets the serve while Mark and Kathy stare. | Zhongjun takes a high one while
Jeff,
Kathy, and Peter crouch in readiness. |
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| Leo launches a missile while
Jeannine and Gan
think seriously about just why they are doing this. |
Ron, the levitating songster,
whacks one
back to Kathy. |
July 3

The big July 3rd Game was a first--we played three teams! There were
the five young athletes brought by
Becky Heywood,
who is regional co-ordinator for AFS Intercultural Programs, a student
exchange vehicle,
Becky herself,
and Jack West, one of the exchange program parents, so three teams it had
to be. To keep
things
circulating, the rules were that a team sat down after two wins and had
to keep the downhill side if they won the first game there. This
meant that everyone got to play and everyone got a breather on the sidelines.
With all the visitors and a few whose names we don't yet know well,
you'll have to be kind and overlook a few
mistakes
in naming. If you see an error, send me an E-MAIL
so it can be fixed.
Above we have Xuping, Dong, Ron, Jack, Mark, Kathy, Ting, Jeff, Leo,
Becky, Zhongjun, Florian Ladage (Germany), Joao Chaves (Brazil),
Markus Anstock (Germany), Nunu Busayapong (Thailand), Cecile Aquilanti
(France), and Steve. Richard is taking the photo. And
there are probably others hanging back through a certain modesty.
A fine big turnout on a suitably sweltering prelude to a blazing fourth
of July.
By the way, if you want to know more about the AFS program or about sponsoring
a student, call Becky at
615 473-4389
or visit the regional web site at http://misstennky.org
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| Five exchange students came to
play and play
they did. Joao, Markus, Florian, Cecile, Richard, and Nunu. Come back soon! |
Cecile
gets an over-the-head back-to-the-net
shot while Becky looks on. |
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| Nunu, Florian, Markus,
and Joao rest up for the next game while Becky's sister, Daryl Townsley
(Topfield, MA) and
Mom, Betty Trogdon, critique the action. |
Zhongun, Becky, Leo, Dong, and
Jack marvel
as old timer Steve, floats like a butterfly.. |
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| Steve is at it again! | Abby and Maggy Morrison ride
the Catfish
and smile prettily. |
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| Daryl and Becky--another set
of sisters. They did
not, however, ride the catfish. |
Daryl, Becky, and Joao pose with Betty. Notice the family resemblance. |
June 26

The gathering
was good despite the threat of rain. We had a new player show up
and both Susan and
Richard,
lawn ornaments supreme, played. Adam, Steve's son is back from San
Francisco and put a little
West Coast
spin on the ball. Dong and Gan were back and added a little class
to the situation. Above we
have Zhongun,
Ron, Dong, Steve, Peter, Jeff, Jeannine, Mei, Gan, Adam, Mark, and Susan.
Richard is
wielding
the mighty Polaroid.
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| New Player Wenquang Xu hit some
pretty
good volley today. Come back soon! |
Dong gets up there! Zhongun and Susan marvel. |
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| Zhongun flied high and Mark backs up. | Peter and Zhongun, who was all over the court. |
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| Mei shows off her pretty new shirt. | Dong shows his ivories. |
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| Gan Deng is ready for anything! | Adam assumes a classic stance. |
June
19

Another
big turn-out and we almost had enough for 3 teams. Maybe next week.
Shown here are Zhongun,
Ting, Betty
, Ron, Tom, Jeannine, Peter, Mei, Mark, Jeff, Susan, and Leo. Richard
shooting the pic. Later
Dong arrived
and the group was complete, except for Dawn, who brought her grandparents
to watch. She
enjoyed
watching the see-saw matches (the downhill team always losing) until finally,
on the last game,
the curse
was broken and the downhillers emerged victorious and hot.
First real summer weather of the
year after
all the rain and cold. Next week summer will officially be here and
the action will be red hot!
See you
then!
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| Zhongjun and Dong. | Ting, Betty, and Tom clown it up. |
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| Jeff explains a fine point to Mark and Leo. | Peter wants to boogie, but Jeannine
can't see it. |
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| Ron watches Mei watch the birdie. | Official Lawn Ornament, Susan,
does
her stuff. |
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| Richard gets to visit Dawn and grandmom. | Grandmom and grandpop smile for
a shot
with Dawn. Mom Connie was home cooking. |
June
12

Lots of
new faces showed up today. Above we have Ting, Tom, Tommy, Ron, Mark,
Zhongjun, Mei, Betty,
Leo, and
Beth. Richard is shooting the pretty photo. Beth and
Tommy are newcomers from the neighborhood. Ting has been to several
games, but I've only now (I hope) got his name straight. Xuping Wang
came--he'd
been once
before with his lovely wife, Shaojun. In addition, we had other newcomers
who showed up after the
group shot--Gan
Deng and Dong Chen, two Italian students at Vandy. Yuk! That
was a joke. No, they are two Chinese who heard about us from Mei.
Well, no matter how people hear, we are always glad to have new blood,
since us older players wear out and have to be replaced from time to time.
If things go as they have for the last
two weeks
we may want to try a three team system where the winner gets to play again
and the loser sits one out and challenges the next game. We will
see. In the meantime, it's great to have such a fine turnout.
Only those
of us who
have showed up and tried to play with two or three on a side can appreciate
just how nice this is.
Right,
Steve?
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| Beth shows her form as Ron and Leo watch. | Beth and
Ron wait for the ball coming from
Ting and Betty. |
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| Betty, Tom, and Ting at the net. | Xuping and Ron set for the return. |
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| Leo and Tommy high at the net
with Xuping
backing up. |
Mark, Tom, Ting, Tommy and Betty. |
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| Ting waits for Mark's shot. | Beth's service packs a mighty punch! |
June
5

The turnout
was fine. Weather perfect. Old friends showed up and new ones
appeared. The group photo
shows us
Steve, Ron, Kathy, Susan, Kris, Tom, Peter, Zhongjon, (Ching? please correct
us) Lee, Leo,
Jeannine,
and Betty. Richard at the camera. By the way, the photos are
much better than this. I just
processed
them the wrong way and don't have time to do it over. Better next
time.
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| Steve, Kris, Lee, Zhongjon, and Peter. | Tom, Kris, and Steve |
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| (?) Lee whacks a serve. | Tom, Betty, Leo, Zhongjun, and Kathy. |
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| Peter, Kris, Steve, and Jeannine. | Richard, Peter, Ron, and Betty. |
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| Steve and Tom. |
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May
29

The weather
was extremely fine and the turnout was great. Above is our new informal
group photo mode. Posing
casually
in the cool of the afternoon are Jeff, Mark, Mei, Leo, Tom, Ron, Tim, Betty,
Jeannine, and Peter. Melissa left a little early so she missed her
moment of fame. Photo by Richard.
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| Betty gets up, up, and away! | Tom and Jeff watch Leo's shot. |
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| Tim watches Mark's get. | Mei takes a break. |
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| Mei is grace in motion as Tom and Ron watch. | Tim shoots Richard, the old facilitator,
as he
shoots the hot action from the sidelines. |
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| Ron gets high. | Tim fires back as Jeannine and Peter watch. |
May 22
(Great Games--facilitator out--no photos)
May 15
(Great Games--facilitator out--no photos)
May
8

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| Melissa give it her all and Steves moves to take advantage. | Barefoot
Jeff (it reminds him of his native
town) puts one over to Mei and Steve while Mark looks on in wonder and awe. |
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| Jeff serves up a mighty shot. | Leo picks one off the net and
Ron waits his
turn to.......what? |
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| Always the class of the show,
Mei delivers
a graceful serve. |
Steve learns a lesson in smooth
and effective
motion as he studies Mei's form. |
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| Betty puts one over to Melissa
with
Peter, Leo, and Ron standing around thinking deep thoughts. |
Mark sets for the shot while
Ms. Volley
and Mr. Eveready surround him with celebrity. |
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| Mr. Eveready 2002 whacks the
ball to
Mr. Eveready 2001. Will he be ready still? |
Ron is caught in a very nice moment of time. |
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| Steve shows he hasn't given up
thoughts of winning the Peacock Award currently held by Zhongjun. Mei isdazzled by his fine feathers. |
Not playing today, but helping
the old facilitator
by shooting some mighty fine photos, Kathy will be back in action next week. |
May
1
Rained
Out!
April
24

We had a
good turnout on a gloomy day. Back from last year, Yong showed up
for the first time as did Betty. Newcomers Shaojun and Wang made
it six on a side with one left over to sit and sip and snap photos.
We got
an 83.33%
smile ratio on the group pic, so what more could one ask? Don't miss
the fun. Plan to be there next week--May Day!
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| Betty's 2003 debut was spectacular!
She was
all over the court. Here she whacks one over to Mei. |
Newcomer
Shaojun moves to position herself as
Kathy plans to back her up. |
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| Wang's service form shows that
he may be new
to the APVA, but he's done this before. |
Mei's played a good solid game.
Here she recovers
her stance after a whistling serve. |
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| Yong gets one with Shaojun backing
up and Betty
ready to receive. |
Steve whacks the ball fiercely
to Leo's amazement!
He is mainly amazed to find a photo from last year stuck in to balance the frame! |
April
17
Opening
Game
We tried
to play April 10th, first Thursday after daylight saving time kicked in,
but cold weather and a wet field
from rains
earlier in the day put the K-O to that. But today was fine and we
got a good turnout for the games and
the delayed
presentation of the Ms. Volley and Mr.
Eveready awards to Jeannine and Peter. Melissa showed up late
with a certain Mr. X and Jeff, though late, made it too. All in all--a
good solid start to the new season.

The motley
crew (less photographer Richard and late showing Jeff). The usual
suspects: Melissa, Tom, Ron,
Leo, Susan,
Steve, Mei, Peter and Jeannine with their awards, and Mark.
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| Mark shoots while Richard, Mei,
and Leo
stand by to help. |
Steve really
gets up! Ron, Jeannine, and Melissa
stand frozen in amazement. |
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| Hot action at the net. | Jeannine charges the net and Ron backs her up. |
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| Since she and Peter missed the
banquet, they got
their awards at the game. Here Susan presents the Ms. Volley 2002 to Jeannine. |
Leo hands over the Mr. Eveready
to Peter, who will
no doubt keep up the fine tradition. |
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| Melissa shows up with Mr. X,
who observed
(bad back). This raises questions. But who will ask them? |
Great shot of the serve that
almost skunked the
luckless other team. We finally rallied at 14-0. |