Through encouragement and efficiency during games and at practices, the girls’ volleyball team has worked hard this season to make it to the playoffs while seeing improvement along the way.
Both the players of the team and their coach are very proud of how they’ve been playing so far.
“We have won some really tough matches and we’ve lost some really tough matches, but overall we’re very competitive with just about every team we play,” Coach Cori Watson said.
Watson describes the team as “well-rounded.”
“We have a lot of players who are really good at a lot of different skills, so we’re able to kind of adjust as we need. It makes it a lot easier on me as a coach when the players are really experienced and really strong in all areas of the game,” Watson said.
Recently, the achievement that they’re most proud of includes their wins against Central Bucks East and Central Bucks South.
“CB East was undefeated in our conference and we beat them. Then for CB South, we lost the first time we went against them, so we’re really proud that we beat them,” senior Nicole Hamilton said.
These wins were really “exciting” for them.
The win against Central Bucks South was a close game, according to Hamilton.
“South won two sets and we won two sets so we went all the way to the fifth set. It was so high energy and it was so fun. It was just a great experience for everyone.” Hamilton said.
Watson said that it was a “whole lot of fun.”
“It was a whole lot of yelling and screaming and excitement on the court. We were celebrating the success that we’ve had because we’ve put so much work into meeting some of our goals and beating some of those really strong teams,” Watson said.
According to Watson, their “ultimate goal” is to make it to the playoffs.
“We’re trying to stay at higher ranks so that we can keep going [onward to] playoffs because we really just want to go as far as we can, as far as districts and states go,” Hamilton said.
According to senior Lauren Holliday, the key to winning and achieving their goals is teamwork.
For volleyball, it’s six people on a court so we all have to work together. There’s no ‘I’ in team. We won’t win if we have that mentality of one person carrying the whole team. That’s not going to work,” Holliday said.
Watson said that the team is pretty competitive with each other, but they also help each other and work together well.
This type of teamwork ends up helping their games in the end, too.
“We play against each other a lot in practice and the athletes are very competitive with each other, but they’re also very supportive of each other at the same time. I think that really manifests on the court,” Watson said.
Although winning is a part of their goal, doing the best they can and encouraging each other is just as important to them.
“It’s not all about the wins and the losses. We always go out there and try our hardest, but it’s more than that,” Holliday said. “It’s like a family. We’re all really close, we all get along.”