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Settle said while she would love to see her team be district champions she said she would be happy with the team winning 50 percent of its games.
“I think that’s a nice goal to start out with at the junior varsity level,” she said.
But these victories are not her primary focus.
“Ultimately I want the girls to improve and to be ready to move on to the varsity team and perform at that level. Any kind of improvement is a goal to me,” Settle said.
Getting ready to move to varsity is of utmost importance, as Weir says this year “we are going to have to play a different kind of volleyball” since the other teams came to see them last year as “the one to beat.”
Last year’s varsity team lost only one game during regular season and competition play. He says while he is certain victories will come to his team again this year, he feels lofty expectations of another state championship game are unnecessary.
“If anybody would have asked me last year what my goal was I would have said I would love to advance to regionals. To try to repeat what we had last year and to expect to enter another season undefeated, no one can do,” he said.
Weir referred to the team’s last season as a “big deal,” and “a great dance,” and said this year he hopes the team will make its way, “at least to regional’s, hopefully beyond.”
He feels the girls are ready for this, saying they have played together for a long time and have come to know how to read one another “almost intuitively,”
One problem exists for his team however, and that is a recent change in scoring
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