{"id":5474,"date":"2008-10-16T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/updated-player-blog-maricris-lapaix-lbcc-women-s-volleyball\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T05:58:00","slug":"updated-player-blog-maricris-lapaix-lbcc-women-s-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/updated-player-blog-maricris-lapaix-lbcc-women-s-volleyball","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED Player Blog: Maricris Lapaix, LBCC Women&#8217;s Volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo2822.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>             <!--StartFragment-->                 <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;\">We&#8217;ve  been singing the praises of LBCC&#8217;s women&#8217;s volleyball program since we went to  our first match a few weeks ago, and it occurred to us that we should shut up  and give them a chance to tell you about themselves.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>So today we&#8217;re introducing LBPOSTSports&#8217; very first player  blog, written by outstanding outside hitter Maricris Lapaix.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>She&#8217;ll be checking in from time to time  throughout the season to tell you more about herself and her team as they make their  run towards a conference title.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>To  see more of Lapaix and her team, we urge you to go to one of their games at  LBCC&mdash;with the exception of tonight, they play at home every single Wednesday  between now and Thanksgiving, and the tickets are super affordable because  they&#8217;re free!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\" trebuchet=\"\" ms??=\"\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Monday, October 13<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\" trebuchet=\"\" ms??=\"\">First  off, I would like to introduce myself, my name is Maricris Lapaix and I play  outside hitter on the Women&#8217;s volleyball team at LBCC.&nbsp; So far this season  we have been playing like a true team.&nbsp; Playing on this team is so amazing,  it is making my last year at City a great one.&nbsp; Since game one, we have  had an outstanding fan base that I hope will continue to grow throughout the  season.&nbsp; (Thank you to everyone for your never-ending support!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\" trebuchet=\"\" ms??=\"\">So  as a team, our goal this year is to &#8220;Make It Happen&#8221; and get on the  wall as conference champions.&nbsp; This past Friday, the 10th, we had to face  El Camino, the previous State Champions and Conference Champions.&nbsp; We had  such high hopes of showing them what our team was made of.&nbsp; Unfortunately,  despite our outstanding first game that gave them a run, things didn&#8217;t turn out  the way we liked.&nbsp; However, I know that we all learned that in order for  us to take a match away from El Co at home, we can&#8217;t hold back anything.&nbsp;  We have to play like the champions we are.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\" trebuchet=\"\" ms??=\"\">We  have something special that everyone can see&mdash;our coaches, fans, other teams,  and ourselves.&nbsp; We&#8217;re gonna be ready for El Co when they step into our  gym.&nbsp; Our next game is LA City tonight and we plan on taking care of  business.&nbsp; Go Vikings! <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wednesday, Oct 15th<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\" trebuchet=\"\" ms??=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>       Game 4 of our conference matches is being held tonight at LA City at 7:30pm.&nbsp; Unfortunately, tonight we are playing at a much later time, which we really don&#8217;t like.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude41&nbsp;&nbsp; haha&#8230;but it&#8217;s all good because the car ride to games is always a blast.&nbsp; On the way to game sites we are usually singing at the top of our lungs, dancing in our seats, playing Sudoku, or making funny faces at people driving by us.&nbsp; This team has no problem staying entertained during car rides.&nbsp; We are just a bunch of goofy and crazy girls who love to play volleyball.&nbsp; (Plus we going on a food stop before the game!!&nbsp; We love food!) <\/p>\n<p>Now for tonight our goal is to come in and play our game.&nbsp; We need to put LA City away in three games and be sure to play at our level the entire time.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tonight is our night to put some heat on the ball and try different plays for our offense.&nbsp; It should be a good game for us tonight!&nbsp; Go Vikings!<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment-->                                                     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing LBPOSTSports&#8217; very first&#8211;and certainly not our last&#8211;player blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}