Girls Varsity Volleyball Tournament

 On the fifteenth, the third weekend of September, your Calvary Christian Varsity Girls Volleyball team participated in a Zion Invitational Tournament. Did I say participated? Not only did we participate, we won second place! Team members taking home this great trophy were: Morgan Rude, Elise Maine, Shymari Harris, Taylor Richards, Sophia Zelenka, Brianna Zehr, Hayley Mohr, and Natalie Kapanka. The JV and Varsity volleyball girls are coached by Heather Denger and Joy Wildfong.

This year’s team has not had an easy ride. As most teams might have started the season in their regular gym, we had the pleasure of conditioning at the local YMCA. Coach Heather made this somewhat difficult, yet fun. After those few days, the JV and Varsity teams practiced at EFC.

The following week we finally had our first practices in the Calvary Christian Schools gymnasium. That next weekend the Varsity players attended a tournament at North Pointe Christian. There, we did less then our best, but every team has those days!

At the Varsity girls next five games we were consistently The Victors. One of those games was in honor of Mrs. Meyer, where the JV and Varsity teams wore all pink, and another was Eagle Mania night. The Varsity team knew this winning streak was not to be for granted and so we all tried to practice hard in preparation for the upcoming Zion Tournament.

The morning of the Zion Tournament, the Varsity Players woke up in anticipation. Bringing crackers, subs, carrots, apples and grapes, we were planning on great nutrition throughout the day. Game one was a wake-up call where we split with Godwin Heights, (we won one game out of two). We then had a break between games and Coach Heather gave a great devotional. Game two was against Providence and we won both games. After those games we started tournament play, which means as soon as you lose, you’re done in the tournament. First we played Godwin Heights again, and beat them in the first two games. We then had a snack of grapes while watching Black River play Freedom. Freedom won so we played them next. It was a close first two games as we each won one game. The team that wins two out of three games determines who would move on to the finals.

It was close, but your Varsity Girls pulled it off! We put our game faces on, and won the game by six points. We quickly got ready for the final game against Zion Christian. The first game was very close with Zion winning by four points. The next game the Varsity Girls played hard but just couldn’t get it together. Zion won the second game by three points.          

Overall, I thought we played well and knew what to improve on. Please come and support the soccer and volleyball teams at Calvary Christian Schools! You can find a sports schedule online. Thank you to all the fans from the Varsity Girls Volleyball team!    

- Taylor Richards, Sophomore