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Malatesta: Take Nothing for Granted

Matt Malatesta
Aug 03, 2020
WELCOME TO D-UP!: Dusek chats with VYPE COO about sports media journey
By Bradley Collier

So, it's been a while since we've spoken directly VYPE Friends and Family.

Like, five months dating back to our baseball and softball preview. We saw how that went, right?

As we embark on the 2020-21 school year, we don't know what's going to happen. Nothing is really certain, but let's mask up, wash our hands and play ball.

Welcome to our annual VYPE Volleyball Issue as we preview the Who's Who this season, fingers crossed. Please let there be a season.


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Personally, I want to see Ally Batenhorst of Seven Lakes have another decorated year and ride into the sunset as one of the greatest and most decorated Houston-area volleyballers in the VYPE era.

I want to see The Woodlands' Clara Brower break the all-time assist mark for the Highlanders before heading to the University of Georgia. That's an amazing list of setters.

I want to see if Fulshear can become only the third team since 2000 to win back-to-back state titles while moving up a classification.

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Honestly, I just want to see some volleyball.

It will be different. No hi-fives, no celebratory hugs, no postgame handshakes. But we can live without that.

What has the COVID 19 situation taught me the most? Don't take things for granted.

That goes for players, coaches, parents and me.

Don't take practice for granted. Don't take carpooling to private lessons for granted. Washing uniforms, taking the court, shagging balls, running gassers, lifting weights, calling lines.

Take nothing for granted because we can see how quickly the end can come. Wins and losses are important, but what we've been through, isn't just playing the game enough right now?

Play every point like it's your last and let's have a successful and healthy season. And finally, let's thank our administrators, UIL, TAPPS and SPC for putting in the work to let the games commence.

Matt Malatesta, VYPE Media Chief Content Officer

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Legacy Basketball Senior Spotlight

VYPE
16 Apr, 2021
Legacy junior Ethan Wiley graciously sent VYPE this prospectus for each and every Senior on the Titan Basketball team. Check out the write-up below!

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Emotional Night: Barbers Hill's Collier reflects on WNBA Draft, picked No. 1 overall

Joshua Koch
16 Apr, 2021

HOUSTON - It was a moment that Charli Collier was destined for.

Collier, wearing a dress designed by former First Lady Michelle Obama's stylist Sergio Hudson, sat behind a single round table. To her right was her mother Ponda and to her left younger brother Casey, who is a lineman at USC. In the middle of the table was a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and just beside it a framed photo of her late father Elliott.

A night that Elliott, who passed away in April 2016, envisioned for his daughter since the eighth grade was here and his dream of her being No.1 came to fruition.

Charli Collier - the No. 1 overall pick of the 2021 WNBA Draft by the Dallas Wings.

"I thought about him the whole time, the whole moment he was there," Collier, who pointed straight to the sky the moment her name was called, said. "It was just really emotional. It was a crazy feeling. He always told me I'd be No. 1. To have that come into play it was crazy. I was a little nervous when [WNBA Commissioner] Cathy [Engelbert] came and made the pick, it was emotions everywhere.

"I still can't believe it. It's unreal and I can't put it into words."

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Summer Creek Track & Field presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors

VYPE
16 Apr, 2021

VYPE caught up with the Summer Creek Track and Field teams at the VYPE Houston Track & Field Photoshoot powered by Whataburger!

Check out these interviews and photos with the Bulldogs' Track and Field team! These interviews were conducted at the VYPE Track and Field Photoshoot on March 24th.

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