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Girls Play
More Sports
r Girls and women are getting more opportunity to participate in sports this summer than ever before.
There was a volleyball camp during,the week after school closed. This w^Srthe first time for such a camp. Laura Conklin, varsity volleyball cqach at RCHS, arranged to have two players from James Madison University and one from Eastern Mennonite come in to help out. There were 20 girls who attended the camp. - Most of the girls were inexperienced junior varsity age, Coach Cpnklin said, but there were about six varsity level girls also. Instead of separating them she mixed them all together and on the last day she mixed the varsity girls with the college players. C Mornings were spent in skill drills, and the afternoons were given over to scrimmages.
By the end of the week girls who had never served overhanded were doing so. “I saw a tremendous improvement. They learned a lot in one week,” Coach Conklin said. ! Girls on the varsity level learned t<* “quick hit” effectively. They learned a new offense and worked on receiving serves, she said. j Another innovation this summer is open gym on Monday and Wednesday evenings for girls and women to play basketball. , ! Coaches Conklin and Rhonda Jinkins arranged to have the gym ot>en. This will have to end by July 21 vvhen the high school gym is due to be unfinished. Then it must be left unused fpr the finish to dry until time for the fill high school sports practices to get underway. In addition the coaches will „ not be able to keep the gym open the week they both attend a coaches’ clinkj, but in the meantime about a dozen girls and women have taken advantage of the; opportunity to play.
Other girls have been playing spftball. Earlier in the summer there were 9-12 year old and 13-15 year old softball teams of Rappahannock girls. Klylene Wolfe and Angie Atkins, two rising RCHS seniors, are now playing on a Culpeper team sponsored by Environmental Systems Services.
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