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North Mason High School volleyball head coach Bob Stevens shows the
girls where they should not be standing when close to the net during
their second day of practice on Tuesday, Aug. 23.
successful
By EMILY HANSON Stevens, head coach, said.
"We should be about 500
Coming off a fairly suc-this season but it's hard to
cessful season last year, tell so early on."
the North Mason High Roughly 30 girls tried
School volleyball team out for the team this sea-
hopes to repeat that suc- son with five returning to
cess. the varsity. Among the re-
"We went to sub-dis- turners, three are seniors:
tricts last year and were Halley Newman, Alix Ma-
about 500 last year," Bob core and Ellarie Hoover,
who missed last season but
has played before.
"We have some fresh-
men on varsity this year
and they'll get some play-
ing time," Stevens said.
"We want to be a strong
team defensively. This is
a nice bunch of girls and
they're fun to work with.
The goal is to win more
than we lose."
Newman is already lead-
ing the team, along with
juniors Julie Johnson and
Jennifer Hicks.
"I think the team is re-
ally cool so far," Newman
said. "There are a lot of
freshmen this year and
everyone's got a good at-
titude. Everyone has good
spirit."
She added that she
thinks the team will kind
of surprise other teams in
the league this year.
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Journal photo by Emily Hanson
Shelton High School
sophomore volleyball
player Kassy Slone,
left, stands ready to
set the ball to her
teammate, sophomore
Molly Mackintosh,
during the first day of
volleyball try-outs on
Monday, Aug. 22.
Youth, enthusiasm infuse
Lady Highclimbers
By EMILY HANSON season will come
Roughly 45 girls attended the first day
of try-outs for the Shelton High School
volleyball teams on Monday, Aug. 22, but
only three of them were returning to the
varsity team.
"We're pretty young this season," ju-
nior varsity coach Willow Shanahan said.
"We only have a handful of seniors and
juniors with a majority of sophomores
and freshmen."
The varisty team is coached by Steve
Beck while Brittney Dobson coaches the
c-team. By the end of the week, the girls
would be sorted into three teams of 10 to
12 girls each, Shanahan said.
"We're really green this year but we
have a lot of girls mov-
ing up," she said.
The two team cap-
tains, seniors Caitlyn
Ernest and Lolly Jones,
said the girls trying out
are young but enthusi-
astic.
"I think it's going
pretty well," Ernst said.
'~rou can see who re-
ally wants to play and
who's working hard."
Jones said she
couldn't predict hoW the
season would turn out,
but that she thought
the team would have a
good bond.
%rolleyball is a lot
about experience," Sha-
nahan said. "Our skill
is there but ~che experi-
ence the girls gain this
up to the skill level."
Last year, the Lady Highclimbers fin-
ished seventh out of eight teams, so the
coaches said they are hoping to do better
this year.
"We're rebuilding our program and it's
promising," Shanahan said. "We try to
do more individualized coaching because
some athletes respond to grilling while
others need to be nurtured."
Until school starts, most of the prac-
tice days will happen twice a day, she
added.
"The teams will be decided this week,"
Shanahan said. "But if a girl shows up
late, we'll give her a three-day try-out to
see where she fits."
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