In my previous blog, I mentioned Low Country Volleyball Club’s 18s Team winning the 18 Open Division of the USAV Palmetto Region to qualify the team for Nationals in Miami. I received the stats from the team’s championship weekend (we have a parent keep stats), and just for fun 
compared them with the offensive stats of the 2008 Final Four Teams: Penn State, Stanford, Nebraska, and Texas. I was testing a coaching theory of IPE (read my What is IPE blog if you are unfamiliar with this concept). Here are my findings:
|
Team |
Kill Efficiency | IPE | Hitting % |
| PSU | 0.529 | 0.874 | 0.390 |
| Stanford | 0.425 | 0.888 | 0.337 |
| Nebraska | 0.411 | 0.858 | 0.324 |
| Texas | 0.453 | 0.882 | 0.349 |
| FF Average | 0.454 | 0.875 | 0.326 |
| Low Country | 0.433 | 0.872 | 0.311 |
- Final Four IPE average was .875, LC’s IPEwas .872 (better than Nebraska and almost as good as Penn State)
- Kill eff – LC’s was .433 (better than Nebraska and Stanford)
- Hitting % – LC was .310 (Nebraska was .270, Stanford .314, Texas .335, PSU .380)
I think at any level, the game comes down to efficiency and execution. Low Country proved to be efficient and executed at a championship level.
