The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/awong/)
“I thought this was honestly one of the best weekends we’ve ever played, especially at home,” said senior outside hitter Joanna Chang. “I think the alumni being back in the 50th [anniversary] celebration really helped us get more pumped up.”
“I think offensively we performed a lot better,” Carlo said. “[We] just performed as a unit instead of more individualistic play.”
Volleyball faced top ranked teams and came up short in game play after win against Columbia.
“I was very proud of how we really came together and played as a team,” Gaffigan said. “We really focused on finishing the game and not letting up, and overall I was very proud of how we played.”
“As a very young team, we’re still learning and getting better each weekend,” Worthington said. “There’s things that we’ve been working on in practice each week that are translating to the games, so we’re still looking to put that all together.”
“I think we have all the right components, it’s just about executing them,” Walker said. “We’re great in practice, [our] practices are very tough and we are improving on the parts that we need to improve on, and we just need to reflect that in our games.”
“We executed the game plan,” said sophomore libero Jackie Baker. “I just think that the teams we played, Yale and Brown, were more consistent so they ended up edging us.”
“The approach was really just getting back into what we call ‘Cornell volleyball’ and … doing everything we can to play to our strengths, eliminate their strengths, and harp on their weaknesses,” said junior Sydney Moore. “I would say we stuck with that throughout the entire match and in those last three sets we really got into the groove of what ‘Cornell volleyball’ is all about.”
Going into this last series of non-conference play, the team looked to make any final tuneups before Ivy competition began. However, it struggled to find its groove against three powerhouse teams.
The Red fell to 2-4 on the season as it dropped two close 5-set heartbreakers in its annual Cornell Invitational.