Pia Lagrito, a senior and four-year veteran of E.J. King's volleyball team, travels to Korea with the Cobras to play against Osan and Daegu, four days past her 17th birthday. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)
URUMA, Okinawa – Pia Lagrito turned 17 on Tuesday. The senior and four-year E.J. King volleyball team veteran said she could not have imagined as a birthday present going to Korea this weekend to face Osan and Daegu.
“We are all so excited to be able to play the Korea teams for the first time,” Lagrito said in an online interview Wednesday. “But we’re there to play our game and show them what E.J. King does best, which is play hard.”
The Cobras will face Yokota – the team that beat King in last October’s Far East D-II final – in addition to the Warriors and host Cougars in a day-long volleyball jamboree at Osan’s Pride Gymnasium.
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