Danielle

What a great day.  I started today off with praise and worship at the multi-faith center.  I am so glad and grateful to have the center there.  Often when I  travel it is hard to find a church to fellowship and receive the Word.  This is awesome to have a place right here in the …

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Wow, what a great win tonight against Brazil and Saturday against Korea.  Starting with a wonderful opening ceremony on Friday, things couldn’t be much better.  Even after participating in other Olympics, this NEVER gets old or routine! Meeting other athletes the march around the stadium, exchanging pins. I hope more are on the way,I have …

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Another hot day here in London.  I won’t complain as it was forecast to be cold and wet! Yes, for the summer Games! I will enjoy the heat while it last and take advantage of getting my vitamin D in 🙂  Sitting on my bed getting a little of NormaTec recovery in before practice.  It …

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Back again at the Olympic Village and I tell you it NEVER gets old.  Yesterday we went through processing and got a lot of gear from Nike and Ralph Lauren.  Unfortunately a lot of the clothing didn’t fit, boo!  But tomorrow I will go to exchange some things if our schedule permits:-) Today we had …

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“Miracles from God?” she asked herself. “I have to give God a lot of the credit for my physical ability. But being a spiritual person has helped me with my different struggles and challenges. And it’s helped me stay positive, which is the main thing, isn’t it?” “I think we have a great team. One …

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I would like to thank everyone for your support. THANK YOU! Currently I am playing in the Puerto Rico Superior League for Mayaguez Indias after competing in Brazil Superliga for Praia Club/Banana Boat. We are in the semi finals.  GO INDIAS.  I am keeping a weblog to update interested followers. CHECK IT OUT, leave a …

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Well, there were more people in the stands last night. With the brazilians beating on their drums it seemed some times more support for them but then we get a loud USA roar. It was a great environment in which to play. Unfortunately we did not win. We lost in four sets. We had a …

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Brazil beat Peru tonight so we will play them tomorrow for the semi final match! What fun. I hope a lot of fans come out to support USA! GO USA! God Bless, Danielle

After five days of competition we finished first in our pool and was granted a bye to the semi-finals to be played on Friday. It have been really fun and exciting to compete in the first tournament of the quad. It has been a great start so far with a new coach, new players, new …

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Hello to anyone to have been occasionally checking in to read about my updates. I apologize for not having posted anything in some time now. Personal events, obligations and travel didn’t allow for me to make the time to blog with you. I hope to do much better. Not waiting six months for my next …

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Happy New Year! I am doing well thanks be to God. I was in Italy for Christmas and the New Year. Booo in that I was not able to go home to see my family in USA or Brazil. But I had a great time anyway with new friends and my husband was here with …

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Hello All, If there is still and all…. I have been really bad about writing last month. November was a difficult month. We played three of our four matches away (all against teams ranked higher) and the one match that was at home was against the number one team! We went 1-3. But I tell …

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Well I am sure you have the results of last weekend by now. But I will review it again just in case. We played and beat Vicenza 3-0 at home. Woohoo and moved to fourth place. I am really happy about the win. On paper, we are “better”. Sometimes on paper doesn’t prove to be …

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Howdy do?! I am sitting at the airport getting return back to Castellana after a five day trip. We won our league match against Sassuolo 3-1. And I had a nice surprise in seeing an old friend of mine and her family. Antoinette White Geminiani. She is now married with two beautiful kids Jessica and …

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Great news all….we won tonight verses Novara for the Italian Cup. I can’t believe they didn’t bring their full squad. The way the Italian Cup works is that there will be two matches played. If there is a split in matches won, it will go to sets won and that team will advance to the …

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Hello All, I am sick again with a cold. Booo! So Lora if you read this yes you can say “again”. I tried all I could to not get the virus that is going around, taking vitamin c, echinacia for the immune system, and a mulivitamin. But with two of my teammates sick and our …

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Today was a long but pleasant day besides the super early morning travel. I woke up at 5 am! Yesterday, we BEAT Novara 3-1, one of the stronger teams in the league. Woohoo, and AMEN! They were missing their star setter Feng, the Chinese national team setter. But, I didn’t have a good match hitting, …

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Today, I will play in my first official match wtih Florens Castellana verses Novara. I am excited. I have a few stories to tell since the Olympics but it seems I haven’t made the time to write them in my blog. As I am one year older (my birthday was October 1)the details seems to …

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After getting in at almost midnight on Monday, shutting off my cell phone and turning off the ringer to sleep off and on all day on Tuesday…the days have flown by leaving still so much to do and little time to do it. On top of that the Gulf Coast region has to once again …

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Wow, what a thrill! Praise God! What an accomplishment for our team and I am so grateful to have been a part of it. Gotta tell you I still had the sad emotions that comes with losing any match especially an Olympic match. The reward was so great in having made it to the Olympic …

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