LBCC’s women’s volleyball team remained undefeated at 14-0 after a dominant sweep of El Camino College on Oct. 9th.
Sophomore middle blocker Jubilee Allen had an impressive defensive showing with ten blocks and five kills to block El Camino from establishing a lead.
Tainea Allen and Tyreana Allen both showed out offensively with 10 monstrous kills and 3 digs from Tainea and 13 assists and 6 digs from Tyreana.
Sophomore Kaylani Moncada recorded a team-high 13 digs and 4 assists.
“I think we did great. I feel like there’s always room to be better, I don’t I will ever have a perfect game, it’s just all mental,” Moncada said. “It feels great to be the number 2 team in the state but I’m ready to be number 1.”
The Vikings upped their defensive strategy every match to make it harder for El Camino to score. While the Warriors scored 18 points in the first match, they scored only 11 and 9 points, respectively, in the last two matches.
This is now the longest winning streak this team has seen since 2017 when they had a 16-game winning streak from mid-September to early November.
Head coach Tyler Jackson spoke about the pressure on the team because of their undefeated status and how they deal with that on and off the court.
“When you’re undefeated every team wants to beat you so there’s no pressure on their side but a lot of pressure on our side, so really understanding how to deal with that pressure is big for us,” Jackson said.
“We do a lot of mental workshops so before our game we do an hour of mental exercising and positive affirmations. A lot of them struggle with self-doubt, it’s just with this generation, so we talk to them about how to not feed into the negative thoughts and help them get out of it so we focus a lot on our mentality here,” Jackson said.
Sophomore Enaya Vaielua credited the team’s success to the way they look out for each other on and off the court.
“We’re all about sisterhood so it’s like being able to trust each other one-on-one on the court and then being able to know all of our weaknesses together and then trying to better those,” Vaielua said.