Captains dilemma

Being a team captain for a Spring League team can be easy when everything is moving along smoothly. Especially if nobody on the team is injured and the weather forecast says sun and blue sky. Everyone just shows up and plays. No big deal. But then there is the Longwood Green team that has to play TCC this week, which typically is our toughest opponent every spring. Combined with a weather forecast that predicts rain for the next 3 days, it is a tough job for Captain Liz to set the line up. Some of todays practice time was spent figuring out who should play together. "Maybe X could play with Y, but X plays better with Z, so mabye X should play with Z, and I could play with Y". As we are playing at TCC, we know that the surface will be clay indoors. As for our line up, only the Captain knows what the final line up will look like. And you can be sure that we will not announce it on this blog prior to the game, as you don't know where the enemy will gather information about our team.

Great practice today with the Green team. Lots of volleys and groundstrokes. On my station the net players isolated a baseline player on either the deuce or the add side. The baseline player at the same time had to hit low balls, trying not to give the net players easy high balls. Lobs were banned in this drill.

The team goofing around at the water cooler.

What do you think? Should X play with Z?