How have you been since winning the championship? I guess there must have been a lot of outside appointments?
Highway construction middle blocker Bae Yoo-na recently met with the Hankook Ilbo and asked about her ‘current status after winning’, “You’ve played 7 games in the past 2 weeks. It was a time when the mind ruled the body. Doing something other than rest… I really didn’t have the strength to do anything. I rested all day,” he laughed.
Last season, the road construction was a series of ‘0% probability’ until the regular season and the championship game. Before the season, experts predicted the team to be in the 5th or 6th place. However, the Korea Expressway Corporation advanced to the postseason by finishing third in the regular league and advanced to the championship game through the playoffs. In the championship game, they became the first team in the V-League to achieve a miraculous ‘reverse sweep토스카지노‘ victory by giving up the 1st and 2nd games and then taking down the 3rd to 5th games. Game 5 of the Champions League recorded a rating of 3.4%, the highest ever in the V-League.
Catbell (17 out of 31 votes) was selected as the MVP of the championship game, but Bae You-na also played a decisive role in the team’s victory by scoring 47 points in offense as well as blocking (12 points) in five games. Bae Yu-na also received 7 votes in the MVP vote. Bae Yuna said, “I looked at the record for a while after the second set of the 5th game, and I saw that I scored 8 points in the 2nd set alone. There was a time when I thought for a moment, ‘I’m going to get an MVP at this rate?’” he said with a pleasant smile.
He picked blocking in the 5th set of the 5th game of the championship as the ‘most memorable scene of this season’. It was a decisive point that made the score 6-3 by blocking opponent Kim Da-eun’s attack with monster blocking. Bae Yoo-na said, “It was only then that I thought, ‘Maybe we can win’. After scoring, she seemed to have had the best celebration of the season,” she laughed.
His performance in the championship match was good, but even in the regular season, he went back and forth between middle blocker and light, sharing a large portion of the big offense. This is because the main striker, Park Jung-ah, was injured and sluggish due to the replacement of foreign players at the beginning of the season, and Bae Yu-na was the focus of attack. In fact, Bae You-na has attempted 752 attacks all season, the most in her last 16 seasons. Bae You-na also said, “Actually, this is the first time I’ve been attacked this much. But she was optimistic that it was a good opportunity to show a new side of herself,” she said.
It was not an easy season no matter how many times you look back. He started the first round with 3 wins and 3 losses, but faltered and faltered with 2 wins and 2 losses in the third round. In particular, Heungkuk Life Insurance, who was the opponent of the championship, was a complete loss in the 1st to 5th rounds. Bae Yuna confessed, “Even before the championship match, I felt relieved that I did well just by coming to spring volleyball.” He said, “I have never won at Samsan Gymnasium (home stadium of Heungkuk Life Insurance) in the regular season, and the opponent’s support is famous for being passionate. We had no choice but to shrink.” However, in Incheon Samsan World Gymnasium in the final 5th round of the championship match, the fans of Korea Expressway Corporation were also very supportive. Bae Yoo-na also laughed, saying, “The pottery fans gave me so much energy that they were surprised.
Then, who is Bae Yoo-na’s ‘season MVP’ in her heart? Bae Yoo-na picked Im Myung-ok and Moon Jeong-won. He said, “(Cat) Bell was the MVP everyone thought of and actually won an award. (Park) Jeong-a has already received a lot of praise for her good attack,” he said. “The driving force of road construction is defense. It didn’t stand out much, but I wouldn’t have come this far without the defense of (Lim) Myeong-ok and (Moon) Jeong-won.”
She then declared ‘rest for now’. Bae Yuna said, “I have been running non-stop for the past six months. I want to give her body time to recover,” she said, promising, “I will spend time with my family, who I haven’t been able to with, and get enough rest, and then I’ll show a better side of myself next season.”