Volleyball sets off to good season
Mikayla Meeker, left, and Roselle Laureano, right, prepare for the next play during a volleyball game against White Station.
August 31, 2009 • written by Kait Curry
Filed under Sports
The volleyball team has had practices all summer, which started in May. According to the team, they are not backing down this year. They team recently spent a weekend together at Brentwood for a jamboree, where they worked on every part of the team.
“The team learned a lot about working together,” Coach Sherrie Walker said. This is Walker’s nineteenth year coaching the volleyball team for Bartlett.
Last year the team won District and placed second at the regional competition but lost in
Sectionals. The team has seven returning players: one setter–senior Morgan Henry, and three hitters–senior Dionne Vann, senior Krystal Kirby and sophomore Ashleigh Anderson.
Walker says that all of her players are important to the team while some of them are better at offense and some at defense. She says it is still too early in the season to determine how successful the team will be as they are still addressing the loss of graduated seniors and injuries from last year.
In their first match of the season against Brighton, the girls won with a score of 25-20. They also came out on top in the second game with a score of 25- 23. And as for the third game– you guessed it– Bartlett won with a score of 28-26.
In the JV match against White Station on Aug. 27, both teams stayed neck-and-neck until Bartlett came back to get the win. The story was just about the same in all of the Varsity games, with both teams fighting to the finish, but Bartlett won all three.
The team and Walker are convinced that this year could be one of the best they have had.
“The team is not backing down,” said Walker.
The team will keep fighting, and they don’t plan on giving up any time soon. They feel they are ready for whatever comes their way and ready to “spike” back at the challenges this season may bring.
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