Wir suchen Dich! » them ahead 16-9 early in the third when Rafael Bush re

The Red Zone refused to relent. Energizing its home gym in Solana Beach, California, Santa Fe Christians student section jumped and shimmied and yelled Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! before each Long Beach Poly serve in the first round of the state Open Division playoffs last month.SFCs 6-foot-2 senior outside hitter, Lexi Sun, the nations top recruit who recently signed with Texas, logged a forceful kill in the second set that landed into the Zone. Her classmates clawed to get a fingertip on the ball, fighting for position the way fans at a concert vie for a pop stars tossed hairband.Sun, the 2016 ALL-USA Player of the Year, kept her cool as Poly fought back, 24-22. Sun smiled, patted a teammate on the back and, in a blink, threw down two monster kills with ease.Its like she floats and then a cannon goes off, said Brad Sandusky, SFCs sports information coordinator, shaking his head at the scorers table.Behind Suns 25 kills and three blocks, SFC defeated Long Beach Poly 25-21, 26-24, 25-22. Sun, who has attended the school since kindergarten, looked back at the net. She has spent hours here perfecting her swing.Things arent just going to be given to you, Sun said. You have to truly work day in and day out for the things you want. You cant take days off. You cant take plays off.Grabbing the micTwo hours before the Poly match, Sun helped take down the basketball hoops from the boys practice and began dribbling a volleyball.Can you dunk? a boy asked.I havent really tried, Sun said.With a jump touch of 10 feet, 9 inches, she probably could. Her father, Conrad, played basketball for Sacramento State and for the Taiwanese national team. Her mother, Beth, was a competitive swimmer. Her brother, Marcus, played basketball for Wheaton College, and her sister, Natalie, was an NAIA All-American soccer player at Azusa Pacific.Sun, an Under Armour High School First Team All-American, was awarded the 2016 Best Spiker Award for the U.S. Junior National Team. Shes also a four-time all-tournament team honoree at the USA Junior National Championship Tournament.She can do things that very few people in the world her age can do, said Ozhan Bahrambeygui, her coach at Coast Volleyball Club. Shes explosive. She has an attacking range that very few people have. She has an elastic arm, she picks great lines of attack and shes a super-dynamic blocker.She might even be a coach.Before a league match against rival The Bishops School (La Jolla, California), Sun walked to the front of the locker room after coach Amanda Miles finished her pregame speech. Sun, hardly ever seen without a smile, grew serious. She paced back and forth in front of her teammates.When shes talking, senior Sami Shields said, everyone listens.Suns energy radiates. She relishes debates. She jumps and waves and shouts friends names when she sees them across the football field. Shes the first to break out on the dance floor at homecoming. She sings shortly after waking up at 6 every morning.Her pregame speech for Bishops started off slow. All right, guys, its game day, Sun said, raising her voice as each second passed. We can DO THIS, she said. We dont have ANYTHING to lose. Sun finally exploded. THIS IS OUR GAME!!!!SFC pulled off the upset for the first time. Everyone was asking, Wow. Where did that come from? I havent seen you play that kind of volleyball in a while, Miles said. It might have been the pregame speech.Sun asks Miles to stay after practice every day for extra serve receive. Even when Miles implemented more into practice one day, Sun still asked to stay later: Just 10 more minutes, Coach, she said. Just 10 more minutes.She wants to challenge herself, Miles said. Its her way of saying, Im not going to take the easy way out. Nothings givenEleven-year-old Sun cried, screamed and kicked in the car ride to her first-ever volleyball practice.She had been a soccer player, a forward, on a team that had won back-to-back State Cup championships. Her parents suggested she try volleyball, as she had sprouted to 5-10. If she didnt like it, she could quit.Sun hated it. Her mind understood the coachs directions, but her body couldnt translate them into movements. She huffed after every mistake, bursting into tears when her parents picked her up.Once Sun made friends, she began to have fun with the sport. Then she began to like it. Then she began to love it. Then she began to need it. The game came easy -- she was tall, she jumped high -- and she received her first college letter in sixth grade.Then, she faced women more experienced and, in some ways, more talented than her. Just a freshman, she was the youngest on the USA U-23 national team that competed at the world championships in Mexicali, Mexico. She hardly left the bench. It was a humbling experience, Sun said.When she came back from that, Conrad said, I think her experience was, In order for me to get to the next level, I need to work really hard. I want to own this. I want to do this for myself. She continued to be challenged, becoming the leading scorer on the U-18 national team that won silver in Peru in summer 2015, her junior year. Coach Jim Stone, who would make the team redo plays until they were immaculate, challenged Sun to limit her hitting errors, something she struggled with.I would always get away with making those little errors and people would just say, Oh shes young, she still has to grow, she still has time, Sun said. I think that made me realize, OK. Nows the time. There cant be any more excuses. I need to find a way to get better. Sun, who helped USAs U-20 national team earn silver at a tournament in Florida last summer, practiced religiously. She received hundreds of Division I letters, which didnt stop even after she verbally committed to Texas in April 2015. As the nations most sought-after recruit, she was constantly told how great she was.Her parents werent having it. They rarely talked about volleyball, not wanting Sun to get caught in the hype and lose her drive. It was, Get your homework done. Lets get dinner. Were going to church. Regular stuff, Beth said. Were still like that.Sun, who also considered Stanford, USC, UCLA, Washington, Penn State, Nebraska and Minnesota, said she felt a connection with Texas beyond volleyball. After staying for seven hours on her first visit, and getting to know the coaches, players and even former Longhorns, Sun felt Texas was the best fit. Texas, which already features some of the best outside hitters in the nation in sophomore Micaya White, junior Ebony Nwanebu and senior Paulina Prieto Cerame, plays Stanford Saturday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN2/WatchESPN) for the national championship.Aiming to play at the U-20 world championships in Mexico this summer, Sun already is preparing for the challenge of college ball.You always have to work for something worth having, she said.Just 10 more minutes. Wholesale Air Max China . Its the second straight game Bell has scored in extra time for Kelowna, which beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 6-5 on Friday, and he now has four game-winning goals on the season. Cheap Air Max China . The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrators decision suspending him for the 2014 season and post-season. http://www.wholesaleairmax.net/ . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . Wholesale Air Max .S District Court against Major League Baseball, the Office of the Commissioner and his own union, the MLBPA. Discount Air Max Shoes . Giroud, who wasnt in the starting lineup for two matches after allegations about his private life and a decline in form, scored twice in the first half. Tomas Rosickys chip made it 3-0 before half time at Emirates Stadium, while defender Laurent Koscielny scored an unmarked header in the second half. DETROIT -- Eric Ebron had a go-ahead, 1-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter and the Detroit Lions went on to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 26-19 Sunday.Ebrons first carry of his career, a handoff as he went from left to right after lining up as an off-the-line tight end, was set up by his career-long, 61-yard catch.The Lions (6-4) have won five of six despite trailing in the fourth quarter of every game. For a change, Matthew Stafford didnt have to lead a game-winning drive in the final minutes.Jacksonville (2-8) has lost five straight.The Jaguars had a chance to force Detroit to punt, or to go for it on a fourth-and-3 from their 46. Nose tackle SenDerrick Marks, though, was penalized for encroachment on a play in which Stafford probably didnt intend to have the ball snapped.Stafford converted a third-and-5 from the Jacksonville 36 with a 7-yard pass to Theo Riddick with 2:18 left that helped set up Matt Praters 43-yard field goal with 22 seconds left.Tavon Wilson sealed the victory with an interception with 2 seconds left.Coming off a bye, the Lions were very rusty on offense.They had more punts (five) than rushing yards (two) and just 18 yards passing late in the first hallf, but led 6-3 because Andre Roberts returned a punt 55 yards early in the second quarter.dddddddddddd. They were also fortunate their defense scored, putting them ahead 16-9 early in the third when Rafael Bush returned an interception 39 yards for a TD.AVOIDING HISTORYThe Jaguars avoided having a dubious NFL record all by themselves, finally getting a takeaway. In fact, they recovered two fumbles against a team that had lost only one fumble all season.INJURY REPORTJaguars: RB T.J. Yeldon (ankle) and CB Aaron Colvin (concussion, chest) were among the Jacksonville players injured during the game.Lions: S Don Carey had a hamstring injury during the game, taking one of Detroits key special teams players off the field.UP NEXTJaguars: Jacksonville stays on the road to play the Buffalo Bills.Lions: Detroit hosts Minnesota in a possibly pivotal game in the NFC North race. If the Lions win, they will sweep the season series to win a tiebreaker between the two teams if necessary.---NFL:For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '