Girls volleyball season is beginning again after summer break. With players coming back from summer, the team hopes to build on last season’s success.

“The girls want to go back to the state championship. They now have the con dence and understanding that they are capable to do that and understand what it takes,” Coach Margeraux Sinabaldi said.

To prepare for the upcoming season, the volleyball players participated in spring conditioning, along with becoming a better teammate by reading the book, “The Hard Hat,” by Jon Gordon.

Along with this, the team trains during the summer after club season ended in July.

“We did some summer workouts in open gyms, and went to team camp in the summer. In addition to that they also played club,” Sinabaldi said.

“We all played club,” Carson Gibbs, senior, said. “We play all year. We’ve been working out all summer. Team camp, that was four days, 9 (a.m.) to 9 (p.m.). We just practice everyday.”

One aspect of the team that is highly regarded by Coach Sinibaldi is the depth.

“We have a lot of kids who can play a lot of different positions,” Sinibaldi said. “Our success is going to lie on whether or not the girls accept their roles that they will be given at different times. A lot of teams at the high school level don’t necessarily have the depth that we do.”

When teams compete throughout the county, rivalries form, and that is the case for this team.

“Our rivals this year are obviously the Robinson team. That’s just a natural rivalry because we are local neighbors. In our district itself, our matches against Wharton have become quite the rivalry throughout the years,” said Sinabaldi.