This Insane Volleyball Save May be the Best High School Sports Highlight Ever
When you combine awesome athletic talent and unbelievable effort, you can create moments of everlasting sports magic.
Case in point, this superhuman play from Autumn Finney:
Autumn is not even human I swear @Apfinney pic.twitter.com/iFxaJg9lGB
— mal (@mallorydowne) October 21, 2017
Still don’t understand how this was possible… pic.twitter.com/6S4X9JmV5V
— Satasha Kostelecky (@satasha_k) October 21, 2017
So many individual elements of brilliance go into making this play amazing. Finney’s awesome acceleration to get to the ball. The ridiculous elevation she displays while jumping headlong over a teammate. The serious guts required to sacrifice her body on such an unforgiving surface. The effort alone would’ve been enough to earn Finney props from us, but to actually hit a return in-bounds and have your team win the point? That was all but impossible.
Finney, a senior at Decatur (Texas)High School, is a phenomenal athlete. Not only is she a captain on the volleyball team, but she’s also a track & field star. She won the 9-4A state title in the long jump last year (with a jump of 16-10) and finished third in the triple jump. She also helped Decatur’s 4×100 team set a school record and win the league title.
No doubt the skills Finney honed as a track & field athlete helped make this absurd play possible.
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This Insane Volleyball Save May be the Best High School Sports Highlight Ever
When you combine awesome athletic talent and unbelievable effort, you can create moments of everlasting sports magic.
Case in point, this superhuman play from Autumn Finney:
Autumn is not even human I swear @Apfinney pic.twitter.com/iFxaJg9lGB
— mal (@mallorydowne) October 21, 2017
Still don’t understand how this was possible… pic.twitter.com/6S4X9JmV5V
— Satasha Kostelecky (@satasha_k) October 21, 2017
So many individual elements of brilliance go into making this play amazing. Finney’s awesome acceleration to get to the ball. The ridiculous elevation she displays while jumping headlong over a teammate. The serious guts required to sacrifice her body on such an unforgiving surface. The effort alone would’ve been enough to earn Finney props from us, but to actually hit a return in-bounds and have your team win the point? That was all but impossible.
Finney, a senior at Decatur (Texas)High School, is a phenomenal athlete. Not only is she a captain on the volleyball team, but she’s also a track & field star. She won the 9-4A state title in the long jump last year (with a jump of 16-10) and finished third in the triple jump. She also helped Decatur’s 4×100 team set a school record and win the league title.
No doubt the skills Finney honed as a track & field athlete helped make this absurd play possible.
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