We concluded preseason with a great week of practice and program events. Our teams showed resilience and discipline in our first match versus Owatonna. All teams spent time together on Friday participating in team-building and learning about Irish volleyball culture. All athletes received a folder on Friday with a program handbook and key resources for building Irish Championship culture. Ask your athlete about above the line behaviors. 9th grade athletes are working through the book, Your New Playlist. All other athletes read through this book last season. Last week, we had two highly successful fundraising events for the program. Thank you to all of the parents and athletes who dedicated part of their Saturday to support our Cub Foods bagging event! I will send an update later with the total dollars raised from this event. At this time, we have raised almost $29,000 from the Hour-a-thon fundraiser. This is amazing and speaks of the incredible support this community has for our volleyball program.
This week, we play 2 strong non-conference section opponents, Tuesday vs East Ridge and Thursday vs Park. We embrace these early season challenges as opportunities to learn and improve. Here is the full schedule this week. 
Go Irish!