This Sunday Women A played Kalmar VBK and Ymer IK in Almåshallen, Borås

In the first game against Kalmar we had good and solid reception, which made it possible for us to also keep a solid offence. We were confident in our playing and the energy was high both on court and really on the bench! Kalmar unfortunately got the first set, but after that we got into the game and took the next three sets into a win🏆
MVP: Lina, spiker

The second game against Ymer was played at a high level. Ymer had a high quality offence, but we kept our level high with great defence and creativity in offence. Ymer won the first set with 25-23, but then we got into our game and won the next two sets 26-24 & 25-22. An even game so far, but Ymer picked up the pace a little, while we at the same time had a small dip, leading to them winning the fourth set 25-17. The fifth set was super even, but after two match-balls to Gothia, Ymer picked it up and closed the game winning with 17-15.
A loss, but high level volleyball was played. This is the level that we want to be at always, and now we know that we can!💪
MVP: Mina, libero

The first game was against Växjö VK. This (so far this season) undefeated team put up a good fight, but so did we! We fought hard and well and it was for the most part an even game. At the end, Växjö was the team that managed to finish the sets, leading to the game ending 3-0 to our opponents. 

MVP: Isi spiker

The second game was against Göteborg VBK D. In this game we played our game throughout, and there was never a question of whether we were going to get this win. We played good, and as a team, so good that when deciding on MVP for the game we couldn’t decide on one player.
MVPs: Joanna setter, Matilda spiker and Linnéa center

Women A played their first game of the season this Saturday against Eksjö IK! It ended up being a tight game and we played some high quality volleyball on both sides✨

In the first three sets we had high spirits and played really nice in both defence and offence. At this point Eksjö had 1 set and Gothia had 2. The fourth set ended 27-25 to Eksjö, and after that tight set we lost some energy and Eksjö unfortunately won the last set.

A really even game, now we have to work a bit more on keeping the spirits high when it gets tough and then we will come back stronger for our next game against this team!💪

MVP of this game is one of our left spikers Lina!!🏅

#gogothia!!

Some words from the team:

This weekend (almost) the whole squad was gathered, and an excited team arrived in Varberg Saturday

The whole team had really high and good energy in both games. We were fighting for every ball, and the bench kept cheering and singing amazing chants through both matches (slay slay slay 👏👏👏)

Both games were really even, but we kept a slight upper hand for the most part, and fought it back for the rest💪

We really finished on top, a great end of the season!🌟

MVPs:

First game against VK Westan - Marie

Second game against Veddige Varberg - Femke

Credit to Marko for the amazing photos📸

Our Women A team played this Sunday against Kalmar and Kungälv. Despite that the 3 teams were on different positions in the temporary ranking (respectively 5th, 2dn and 9th place in "Division 2 Mellersta Södra") they played quite even. And all the 3 matches lasted 5 sets where any of the teams could have won.

Gothia's play in resumé:

All teams played very well in defence. For our lionesses there were multiple long rallies with any kind of situations: deep balls, dropp-saves, blocks followed by block covers, crazy lucky hits💪 Killing spikes and smart placements brought us strong positive emotions multiple times. Gothia was better than both oponents at the net not only in offence but also in blocking🏐

Serve series of upp to 6-8 points in a row, that calmed the tempo of the game at times, were made both from and to us. Unfortunately, our serve mistakes costed us both matches (that we otherwise could have won perhaps even in 4 sets as 3:1).

Must be pointed out that we were very few from the Women A team available to play this day. Some were injured (such an unfortunate year for the whole Gothia Volley club) others were sick. Help ((from our retired for the season Emilia Gryska as well as)) from our Women B team saved the day. Jonna Matthiesen as a middle spiker fought well and showed promising qualities and Caroline Andersson as a left spiker stood up to refresh the team when needed.⭐️

MVPs for the day: Agnes, Maria