Call it old fart volleyball. Call it hood rat volleyball. Call it dirty or creative or funny or crafty or whimsical or whatever other name you’d like to label Karissa Cook’s decidedly awesome style of scoring points on a volleyball court. But you must, at the very least, call it this: Effective.
Effective enough that Cook and her partner, Katie Spieler, scored an invite to the AVP’s final event of the year, the invitational in Hawai’i, where Spieler and Cook played their college ball.
Effective enough to make her first career Sunday, at the AVP’s opening stop in Austin. Effective enough to avoid the qualifiers all year — “I had to do some beautiful mind calculations for New York,” she said, laughing — for the first time of her young career.
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it,” she said of her partnership with Spieler, last week’s guest on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. “We’ve just been playing together and the honeymoon phase hasn’t worn off two years later.”
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