Big ups to George, whom I casually met at the mile 33 rest stop on I-75 earlier this morning, for this announcement from Nicki Meyer, daughter of Florida football coach Urban Meyer and previously seen here. Nicki is breaking ranks from her dad, choosing to pass over an offer from his alma mater to play volleyball at Georgia Tech next fall. What she’ll be playing with in the winter is anyone’s guess.

“It’s funny because I already have that rivalry,” Nicki said. “I already hate Georgia, so it all works out.”

Nicki says that her dad does what he can to help with her volleyball, from trying to attend her games to helping her practice.

“He just hits it at me all day long − we did that all the time this summer when we were on vacation and stuff,” Nicki said. “He doesn’t know what he is doing, so I just tell him to hit it at me.”

The piece says Nicki is 5-foot-6, but Wikipedia says Nicki is only 17, which means most of you will totally lose interest in her in a matter of months. The bright side is that she may have finally settled on a hair color by then. Damn, girl, don’t you remember what Yoda said? Blonde or blonde not. There is no try. That was Yoda, right?

[Rivals.com (image from here)]

I haven’t seen an episode of “America’s Next Top Model” in years, and I’ve never heard of Grand View College before, but hey guess what?!?  A former contestant on “America’s Next Top Model” now plays volleyball for Grand View College!

[Jaeda] Young has gone from supermodel to role model, though. The middle hitter from Parkersburg now wears a jersey instead of designer dresses. She spends her days attending classes at Grand View’s campus in northeast Des Moines, not planning for a Vogue or Cosmopolitan photo shoot.

Whoa.  No way.  Are you telling me that some of the girls who don’t win ANTM DON’T overcome those unfair judges to become successful models?  I have a hard time believing that someone as successful as a reality show contestant would end up at a small college in Iowa.

(thanks to Tim was Tim for the story; video of Jaeda after the jump)

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I've actually been to a professional beach volleyball tournament and there were hundreds of bikini-clad hotties, but AVP (Beach Volleyball's Professional League) obviously thought the scene needed 5 more talented and lovely girls:

Uh, their talents would be more apparent without all that annoying singing and dancing. More Beach Girlz (nothing says attitude like an unnecessary 'z') and fake Australian accents after the jump . . .

"Dancing in the sand is harder than singing and dancing at the same time."? Hmm, remind me not to ask that girl to participate in a threesome. -KD

And now it's time for a little segment I like to call, "People Getting Their Faces Wrecked," starring a bunch of volleyball players.  As the Postmen noted, a good face shot is almost as satisfying to watch as a nut shot, and whoaaaaa did I just open the door for all kinds of innuendo or what?  That is some good high school-level double entendre right there.  You wouldn't get that level of humor if they hired a twelve-year-old to write this site.  Thirteen or fourteen, maybe.  But my HTML skills are better.

[College Humor] 

In south Texas, the Comfort High School Whitetail Deer enjoy a fierce rivalry with the Blanco Panthers.  How fierce?  Dead deer on the bus fierce, my friends.

A girl's high school volleyball team was shocked to find a bloody deer carcass on their bus after a game against a rival. Members of the Comfort High… volleyball team came across the remains of a dead deer after playing a game against Blanco High School. [One] student said she believes students from Blanco High School placed the carcass on the bus as a prank.

Oh, I wouldn't rush to judgment.  There's always the possibility that the deer was the victim of a brutal assault and climbed onto the bus to die.  Or it may have been placed there not as a aprank but as a token of affection.  Was there a note that said, "a DEER for my DEAR"?  No?  What do you mean puns aren't funny?  I worked on that for like an hour.