With a lightning fast start and high hopes for the season, the girls’ varsity volleyball team is ready to compete for the state championship. With the mental desire to make it to the top, the team is going to try to blow out their competition every time they play.
During district play, the girls’ volleyball team never lost a game. Against rival Killian, the team came back from a two-set deficit to defeat the Cougars.
The volleyball team holds great expectations to make it to the state tournament this year. The emergence and leadership of key players, such as seniors Kristen Cope and Brittany Batten and juniors Kristen Chao and Mary Martinez, will help them dominate their opposition and be successful as a team.
“We plan to go to states. We have to work together and put any problems aside on the court and be a team,” Martinez said.
Under the leadership of Coach Kimberly Latshaw, the coach of the boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams, the girls are coached to be winners. Latshaw has the support of all her players and they play to win under her guidance.
“Coach Latshaw is an excellent coach,” junior Kaley Jaslow said. “She’s taught us a lot and her experience of being a really good volleyball player helps us.”
The volleyball team continues to push themselves to achieve what every team in Florida tries to accomplish: a state championship. “I think we definitely have the potential to make it to states,” sophomore Samantha Marquez said. “We’ll have to come together as a team and perform our best.”