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 coachingtheory 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.
