1993 Final Four Reunion


Favorite Quotes

"It's the hard that makes it great!".....Stephanie

"Win in three - with motrin" ....... Chris

"The key to this match is __________ & ____________."

(you guessed it -- passing & serving) -- Carol

Also "The Road to the Final Four" we wrote & drew on the board in all of our pre-game meetings. -- Carol

"POINT, COUGARS!" I almost forgot about our fans hollering this out every time we scored! -- Carol

"We're gonna win!!" Chris and I both looked at each other after the 3rd point of the first set of the UCLA game and said this in unison. It still makes me giggle. Laura


Favorite Memories

I remember being in Hawaii. We were on our way back to Laie after being in Honolulu. Char had to go to the bathroom so bad that she had to get out of the van to go - about 5 miles before we got there.


I have a couple of funny memories from Hawaii too. It seems like we spent a lot of time when we were there driving from the North Shore to the city. We had to travel through a really long tunnel and of course we all would scream through the entire length!

Also on one of those drives we started having a conversation about what movie stars we had crushes on. Mine was Tom Cruise (until I discovered how short he was!), Shauna's was Kenny Rogers, and Lori's was Johnny Depp.

Not sure if this was the 1993 year or not, but it was pretty funny when our huge vans would come to stoplights on road trips and we would all rock the van back and forth!
-- Carol

We were in Hawaii and driving back for the 10th time from the other side of the island and we were talking about our favorite singers (sorry it's more pc now to say musical artists). I said something to the effect of "if I were on a desert island and could have only two people, it would be Kenny Rogers (1st record I ever got) and Rod Stewart (boy, does this date me)! Anyway, Carol said her favorites and then Marianne said "If I were on a desert island I would want to be with Brad Pitt." I said, "Marianne, he is so much shorter than you," and she said "Who'd be standing up!" We all laughed like crazy and I still laugh every time I think of that. - Shauna

One of my other memories was of being on a plane to somewhere and someone asked if anyone had some Motrin. There were like 8 or 9 of us who all said "yes I have some," and then started to pull out our bottles. -Shauna

And on the flip side of that I remember coming back from the Final Four on the airplane and Chris coming up to each of us and telling us to hand over our prescriptions. I didn't quite understand it until a few days later when I came in and told her that I was having horrible pain in my back. Chris told me that I have always had that pain in my back (because of my SI joint from scoliosis) and that I normally just lived with it, but for the past few months hadn't felt it because of the Motrin. She wouldn't give me anything for my back pain and told me that I'd have to learn to live with the pain again. I thought it a bit of a "cruel and unusual punishment" at the time, but after a few weeks got used to it again.

I'd like to dedicate our Final Four season to that little pill we all loved so much and Chris for helping to control substance abuse! - Shauna

One of my favorite memories was at the Joseph Smith Building, meeting with the apostles after going to the final four. I remember someone (okay I can't remember if it was Elder Perry or Elder Maxwell - my memory isn't as good as it used to be) was talking about how Elder Nelson had been watching the game and started calling others saying, "Our girls are on TV." That comment always stuck with me. I realized that we were representing something more than ourselves and the school. Steph

I have so many fun memories of the Hawaii trip -- it seems like it was really a great kick- off for the 1993 season!

--Arriving at the gym in Hawaii for our first match and thinking we were late, because there were tons of Hawaiian fans already in the stands.
--Our matches being on LIVE TV in Hawaii.
--After we had played our 2 matches and got to spend the day at Waikki Beach, people on the beach recognized us from being on TV. We all thought this was so cool, because we didn't have anything on us to identify us BYU volleyball players. -- Carol

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Talofa from American Samoa!!!!!



Hello everyone! I hoped to make it to the reunion, but unfortunately am not able to. I'm in American Samoa and have been here for the past year now. Thanks to Steph, Carol, and Michelle for organizing this reunion. I hope you will be able to send photos of it to the rest of us who are not able to attend.

The clip below is an excerpt from a documentary video I made a year ago...no doubt a nostalgic moment for all of us.




I come from a family where I am the only child and grandchild with a degree. Most of what I knew about colleges came from watching tv, literally. I knew of USC because I watched the Olympics in '84 where all they seemed to talk about was one Cheryl Miller, the basketball star from USC who helped the USA team win the gold that year (the same Cheryl Miller that Michelle, Carol, Shauna, and I bumped into at USC when we were there for tryouts the spring before our senior year..you ladies remember the limo that pulled up by the gym when we were heading back to the hotel?). Anyway, to make the long story short, I had a Hawaiian lady for an English teacher my senior year in high school. And luckily she had a clue because she made us write to three universities of our choice. She had this thick book, which listed addresses of all the universities in America. My first pick was UCLA, second USC, and third BYU. I wanted so bad to attend UCLA. After writing these universities, weeks went by and for some odd reason, a letter from UCLA arrives stating their refusal to send me an application...this is before I even had a chance to apply. RUDE! USC didn't send me one either and I'm beginning to wonder if they did the same thing UCLA did. BYU, on the other hand sent me an application. In fact, BYU was the only university I applied to. I was accepted and all else was history. I reflect on this quite often and always come to the conclusion that it was meant to be that I attend BYU. I cherish every moment I had there as a student and as a member of the BYU Women's Volleyball Team. I learned and gained so much from my experiences with all of you, the ups and downs. Thanks to all of you for your great examples, but moreover, thank you for your friendships.

Muki
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2 comments:

The Lewis Family said...

We love you, Muki. You are a great example to all of us. Keep doing great things. Great to hear from you.
Michele

October 1, 2008 at 7:38 PM
1993 BYU Volleyball Team said...

Muki,

Thank you so much for posting that video. That is the moment I was talking about in my "Accomplishing Something Great Post." Almost makes me cry just to watch it!

So sad you won't be able to come to the reunion. . .We will miss you!

I never knew that story about you applying to the colleges. You truly were meant to be at BYU!

Carol

October 2, 2008 at 9:44 PM

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