Chapter #37 Kansas State Volleyball Recap: Week #3

Kansas State volleyball team led by head coach Susie Fritz came off last weekend with sweep in the Tulsa Invatational where the 'Cats beat 3 teams. Two of those teams were ranked inside the Top 25 which was huge of the team. K-State defeated Tulsa last Thursday, followed that up with an upset of the #10 ranked opponent Minnesota. After getting hammered in the first set of the game, the 'Cats battled back in the second set then fell in the 3rd set, and they were about to lose the 4th set until a late rally against the Golden Gophers. Then K-State ran away with the 5th set to capture the victory. On Saturday, the Cats' took care of #20 Dayton in 3 sets to move to 12-0 on the year. K-State junior Kaitlynn Pelger took MVP honors in the tourney and was the Player of the Week, nationally.

Oklahoma
On the road to start off Big 12 play, the 'Cats on the road in Norman taking on the Sooners which lost a couple key players the year before. But on this night, K-State fell behind early and often against the Sooners and ended up losing their first game in 2012 by losing to Oklahoma in 3 sets. Once again as she always does night in and night out, Kaitlynn Pelger had another big game for the 'Cats leading the team with 13 kills followed by Lilla Porubek with 11 kills. Oklahoma defeated K-State 25-27, 19-25, and 21-25.

Chapter #36 Huge Test for Cats: Tulsa Tourney

The Kansas State volleyball team with their best start in school history at 9-0 will have a huge test this weekend in the upcoming Tulsa tournament in Oklahoma this weekend beginning with of course Tulsa of Thursday evening . K-State has overpowered most of their competition except for Oregon State in the first week of the season but still manage to win in 5 sets. The Cats' will need to get out of the gate this weekend if they want to continue their early season success especially Top 10 ranked opponent in Minnesota coming up on Saturday led by their best player Katherine Harms who averages 4 kills a game. #10 Minnesota will be playing 2 games on Friday, while K-State will be just playing the normal one game which will be at 4:20pm. Cats' wrapped up tourney play Saturday morning when they take on Dayton. The bigger question coming after these games will K-State still be unbeaten??


Tulsa
On Thursday night, the K-State volleyball team started out fast to defeat Tulsa in straight sets 25-19, 25-22, 25-18. The Cats led by the talented junior Kaitlyn Pelger who led the attack with 11 kills in this game while Kathleen Ludwig had another big game by adding 10 kills as well. The Wildcats in this contest found a way to slow down Tulsa's best player Tyler Henderson who had 18 kills but the rest of the Golden hurricanes couldn't get anything going. The Cats' continue to rack up the wins and going to the game with #10 Minnesota Friday afternoon at 10-0.

*Eddie (EGIII)

Chapter #35 Kansas State Volleyball: Early season recap

A few weekends ago (August 24-26) the K-State volleyball team (women) began it's season after making it the Sweet 16 one year ago. Kansas State hosted the Varney's Invitational at Ahern Fieldhouse. The Cats' ended up sweeping the weekend and starting off with a record of 3-0 so far early in the season. On Friday, K-State took down UC Irvine, then in the night cap in striaght sets defeated Oakland. The toughest test came on Saturday evening facing Oregon State. Behind in the 4th set the Cats' began to rally behind Juniors Kaitlynn Pelger and Lilla Porubek. K-State ended up winning set 4 then finished off the Beavers in the 5th and final set of the match 15-8. Pelger and Porubek had 43 of the 76 kills for the Wildcats. Senior Caitlyn Donahue made key plays down late in the game for K-State. Pelger, Porubek, and Donahue all receive 1st team honors of the Varney's Invitational.

Bluejay Invitational Recap
Kansas State volleyball team last weekend played up in Omaha, Nebraska where the Wildcats ended sweeping all three teams to win the weekend tournament. Denver, Creighton, and Syracuse. Along with that the Cats won every single game not losing a set (9-0). Kansas State defeated Syracuse 25-17, 25-14, 25-16 to seal the tourney let by Lilla Porubek and Kaitlyn Pelger. K-State volleyball will return to action next beginning on Wednesday when take on Missouri State flollowed by St. Mary's and on Saturday night Utah State.

*Eddie Grier (EG3)

Chapter #34 Chris and Megan's Wedding

Haha, yeah...I'm a little late with blogging as for late but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things with school starting back up and trying to get everything all in order here for the fall semester. Anyway, a few weeks ago I got to be apart of a wedding; I went to a wedding in the middle of this summer which was my first, and now I was in my good friend's wedding a couple months later in August (August 11th) Chris and Megan Karlin. It was definitley an honor to be apart of their special day knowing them for over 2 years now. I came back to Manhattan that Wednesday couple days before the wedding day because as earlier I mention that I was in the wedding as an usher. But going back a little bit, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it to their wedding (Karlins). But I was able to make it staying at Willie's place on the first night. Then,  hanging out with Chris and the guys the first then helping them get set up with their wedding on Friday with Megan and the rest of the family. That goes for Chris's as well. It was really nice to get to know Chris and Megan family during the 3-day stay in Manhattan (Kansas). On wedding day, the guys Chris, Shane, and myself got to the church early along with Matthias (Megan's brother) got into our very nice clothes and got ready to Chris/Megan get married. Being usher for their wedding pretty good! Family from both sides came of course a lot of people that I kenw at this wedding as well beside the married couple now were their and I know quite a bit actually. After the ceremony and everything and a chance to take some pictures with the group. And yes, we got creative it was a ton of fun...the entire day itself was just a blast. It's about some 3 weeks later but congrats again to my good friends now married Chris and Megan. And thank you for letting me part of your wedding day! I'm blessed to have them in my life.

People that I met during the wedding:
Chris and Megan's Parents
Matthias
Morgan
Miranda
Marissa
Sara
and a few more

Until next time,
*EG3

Chapter #33 Lake or Break

Just a couple of weekends ago, I had a chance to go back to Wilson Lake in Wilson, Kansas to spend the Sunday afternoon with friends from Barton County Community College that I went to school for 2.5 years. Some of them who were out at the lake...there was like including myself 8 of us. A couple of them I met my Sophomore year. Haha, yes there was suppose be a few more out there on the lake with but on well.

Water and me don't really get along that well; I mean I can drink gallons of it all day long if I wanted to but swimming in it is a whole different challenge for me. The last time I was out there, I was at a different side of the lake and when tubing a couple years ago. It was my first summer in the state of Kansas, I was with a couple of friends and went tubing back then I didn't know what it was called. Let's just say that I somehow survived that activity. Going to Wilson, this time was very different...road trip there was cool; after a busy summer it was my last weekend in the Hat for awhile. Riding along with Brittany and Joann overall was good but somehow I didn't feel safe in the car, lol. Maybe the first hour of the trip all I hear from them was knives, hot dogs and other things and yeah but I guess it's good thing though not in a bad way. Anyway, we all got to Wilson in one piece waited for other people to get to the mini restaurant intown and then we were on our way there after a few more u-turns and so on. Our group went to the other side of the lake where there was kids. Wilson is pretty decent in size so it wasn't that bad. Playing, walking, volleyball in the lake just your normal hangout during the summer. After a few hours there pictures and hugs followed, then I with Brittany and then replace Joann with Kaitlin when took a look at her (Kaitlin) hometown which is pretty small. In Kansas I have seen my share of small towns and it was nice to see how everyone in the small town works and I'm sure everyone in town knows your name. I have not mention food, lol. Well it depends on which store you go to but on the way back to our locations me, Brittany, and Kaitlin stopped at a convenience store and order food, and it was pretty good hot and fresh too...just saying haha. Overall, the entire day was awesome just get away from our normal lives and enjoy some fun for a day.

People I was with:
Brittany
Joann
Kaitlin
Erica
Cassie
Reba
Mahlia
Kyle

Until next time
*EGIII

Chapter #32: Summer Radio

The past two and a half months, it's been kinda like getting back to normal pretty much after last summer's epic trip to Alaska (Juneau). But this summer I think much more productive taking the opportunities given to me and taking full advantage of that. My very first summer spent here in Manhattan as been a busy one getting work done and just relaxing. From late May learning how to do a news broadcast record it and all of that stuff, to promoting events over the radio so the community of Manhattan at the very least knows what's going on. All the way to learning about how to do severe weather and how to insert that into a live broadcast. Then there's sports talk each week on Wednesday's this summer which as been a blast getting a chance to talk about sports with Cameron Banning and with Preston Rumford as well. And then the transition to my DJ show "Primetime" which I play alternative rock and do sports updates each week from Monday thru Friday 7 to 9pm which I enjoyed doing that and playing people's request on it too. Doing a little promos for a few shows with Ryan Stark have been good; learning about knowing what you want on your show and cutting it down to about 30 seconds is kinda of hard to do but it wasn't that bad. Our radio station got a good laugh when Jen decided she wanted to do this event called "Pull a dare from Eddie's hair" on her show which turned out to be really good, haha!! Doing lots and lots of things the last couple of months for The Wildcat 919 KSDB has been fun to do and be apart of thanks for the opportunity...as we are about to transition into the fall semester I'm looking forward to happen what going to happen it's going to be interesting that for sure as I'll moving to a different section on the staff team.

The people that I was hanging out with this summer and will continue into August:
Mary
Jared
Elijah
Jen
Caitlin
Cameron
Joey
Ryan
Edward B.

*EGIII

  

Chapter #31 New Phone/Technology

It's been almost two months since my last  post it seems like I'm getting lazier and lazier...haha. But I guess starting now I will be getting back on these posts and update you on what's going. Blogging about life and other things that interests myself. And this will be my first blog post of the summer. And with everything going on around me right now things are about to get busier plus a time of change is going to happen soon. I have a lot to actually look forward to so will see what will happen for the rest of this summer and much more to come.

During my hiatus from blogging I got a new cell phone. I basically upgraded from the one I had since I have been in college; still with the same carrier Verizon, changed phones to a regular to a "4G" smart phone. Yeah, that's right I'm trying to catch up on modern technology a little bit, lol. I will still keep my old phone though but for right now I'm still on the learning curve on how to operate the phone. It's been going well so far; it's that there are sooo many features on this phone that it's great. This thing is like one big dictionary that you wouldn't need anything else well except food. A lot of people/friends depend on this type of phone weather it's an iPhone or a different phone in there daily routine while still use it of course but of important reasons like the alarm clock. I'm still at the learning stage of trying to learn how to use all of these apps and use them for the right reasons. From games, to news, camera, video and lots more. Phones are definitely important; especially in this age of technology. you got to have the right connections.

-Be Cool
 *EGIII