Team Name: Schwa
City/State: Portland/Oregon

Players:
1 - Angie Rodriguez - Jumps tall
3 - Bre Austin - Out of this world tall
4 - Chelsea Dengler - Plays tall
5 - Robin Birdsong - Crazy tall
6 - Jeanette Goldmark - Plays tall
8 - Ruth Oclander-Kleffner - Sorta tall
9 - Mindy Randell - Sorta tall
10 - Sarah Welsh - Too tall
11 - Val Hamm - Super tall
12 - Deana McMurrer - Not so tall
13 - Cathy Ormerod - Sorta tall
15 - Cathy Erickson - Not so tall
16 - Tara Sechler - Really tall
21 - Margo Findley - Kinda tall
22 - Jeanne Savage - Taller than she looks
23 - Anna Neraas - Sorta tall
25 - Rebecca Doyle - Plays tall
27 - Tracey Satterfield - Sorta tall
28 - Hilary Wells - Not so tall
32 - Marisa Bollman - Very tall
33 - Anne George - Tall
55 - Amila Ferron - Not so tall


Team History:
They look like a nice enough team, with plenty of
charming smiles and batty eyelashes, but if you'd
happened to spot them on a certain evening, in a
certain tropical island, at a certain world
tournament, you might have been surprised (and, um,
"stimulated") by what you saw. Competitive from the
inside out, Schwa spares no opponent, no teamate, no
body part from scrutiny and, of course,
recommendations and strategies for improvement.

With team members named "Bob", "Slim", "Love Muffin"
and a yoga master who demands the "downward dog" every
practice...with various rituals involving some odd
drinking device called the "shotski"...with team
mothers who could run a profitable dairy if they so
choose, you might think Schwa's a roudy bunch always
showing up at parties and hogging the keg. But unless
it's a wedding ceremony the night before an early
morning scrimmage, you'd be wrong. They're serious, so
serious and focused that they occasionaly forget to
put the "w" in Schwa.

Beautiful, strong, intelligent, spicy Schwa. Bring out
the ukulele, find Jack Johnson, whip up some eggs and
get ready. This is the year.