Clear Lake Volleyball’s Logen Bourque-a Perfectionist with the “Touch”
This is the story of a young girl who broke her arm doing tricks on a bicycle. She said she was just trying to be cool. Trying to be cool doesn’t pay off but hard work does and now Logen Bourque is the starting Setter on the Clear Lake Lady Falcons Volleyball team and they are undefeated in District play as of September 21, 2009.
Logen is mystifying, curious, and dedicated to a sport that has taken off in popularity in the last few years. She is the Setter and has the perfect “touch” placing the ball where Spikers can strike it. She is a seventeen year old senior at Clear Lake High School and is entertaining college volleyball offers from many schools, including Texas A and M at Corpus Christi, Charleston College in South Carolina, and Lamar University. Logen can be an enigma and her life is centered around the sport of volleyball.
She hasn’t decided upon a degree study plan in college yet but she is very sure about continuing her sport on the next level. Her older sister, plays volleyball for Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and she insists that her sister is her hero. She desires to follow in her footsteps and looks up to her as a great example.
Logen’s season goals would be to beat the local teams like Creek and Brook, and win District, but she won’t be satisfied without going all the way to the State Playoffs. She has high expectations but she explained that she is a bit of a “perfectionist” and that quality pays off being that her favorite class in school is “math.”
For summer vacation Logen spent the time playing club volleyball and traveled to Miami and Orlando, Florida. Logen liked hanging out on the Florida beaches. She loves the beach and likes to hang with her friends, sometimes going to comedy movies. Logen also likes a bit of basketball, she played when she was younger, and she likes “rap” music, and her favorite is Lil Wayne.
Clear Lake has a dynamic powerful team this season and Logen is an important part of that team’s success. She is the Setter and she is probably the tallest Setter in the entire District, at five feet eleven. College scouts like taller Setters and she has another season to showcase her talents.
This is a girl with quite an amazing past. Not many people know about Logen Bourque, the Karate master. In those younger years before volleyball became such a big part of her life she was competing in Karate tournaments. Logen holds a Brown Belt with two stripes and participated at the World Championships in Houston in the Kata/Form categories, winning two gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 bronze. Her style of Karate is called Kyu Sul Won.
The “Best Setter” award was given to Logen in her freshmen year and she has also received 2nd Team all-District, but the best award is the Academic All-District Award that she received last year.
Right now she’s enjoying playing volleyball for Clear Lake and looking forward to the exciting season. She knows she’ll play somewhere in college and after that she plans to let things happen and follow her heart and her dreams. Logen also admitted that someday in the future after all of these years of school and volleyball she might like to have a family. Family is important to her.
Logen admitted that she might like to travel to Australia, but for now she has been to New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts and she loves the East Coast. The little girl who broke her arm trying to be cool on a bike now just works hard and plays her favorite sport with desire and passion. Logen Bourque is a fine example of a girl on a quest, and she is a perfectionist who plays like every play is “game” point.