TAHS volleyball team works hard

By Ashley Hamilton

In the last few games Tyrone girl’s junior varsity and varsity volleyball has come close to winning their games, but hasn’t won yet. The win-lose ratio is zero to six.

Senior, Courtney McMonagle said, “This year is better than last year. We don’t have that much drama going on with the team.”

“We try our hardest most days and others we give up. I know because you can tell when we get mad. Every game starts with nervousness and it eventually moves to just having fun and being competitive,” McMonagle added.

Freshman Courtney Kurtz agreed, “We play as a team, not an ‘all about me’ team.”
Kurtz is new, but she understands the problem the volleyball team is having with the budget cuts. The team has to fundraise more.

Volleyball fundraisers have included: an ice cream in a bag and bake sale at the Labor Day picnic in Reservoir Park. The team raised about two hundred dollars. The team is also currently selling Mac’s Market sandwiches.

Kurtz feels that if the school cuts volleyball altogether then she won’t be able to play any sports since volleyball is the only one she feels comfortable doing. Kurtz started playing volleyball after she decided not to play tennis because “Lindsey Kemp informed me she was doing volleyball.”

Tyrone Lady Eagles practice in the middle school gym after school at four o’clock till six, except on Fridays, where it’s from three thirty till four thirty so the team can make it to the Tyrone varsity football games; they also practice Saturday mornings at nine to eleven. The practices start with two laps, stretching, passing, and peppering. The team gets to work on the pass and go then circle pass drill or the butterfly drill. Each day is different, there’s a different drill every day after the team finishs one of those drills. The last five or ten minutes the girls practice their serving.