California Heat Volleyball Club will be hosting tryouts for their 12's, 13's and 14's teams today at their gym in Camarillo, from 12:30 - 3:00 pm.
For more information, check out the California Heat Website or contact Director Cindy Smith at calheatvbc@roadrunner.com or 805 657-6700.
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Channel Islands Volleyball Club will be hosting tryouts today at Ventura College:
14's boys team from 12:30-2:45
13's and 14's girls teams from 2:30 - 4:45
12's and under girls teams from 4:30 - 5:45
For more information, check out the Channel Islands Website or call 805 659-1620.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
By Ted Cotti Posted Friday, October 9, 2009
Photo by Joseph A. Garcia
Nordhoff High’s Laila Litonjua, left, hits the ball back over the net while Villanova Prep’s Hannah Kolbecktries to block during their Frontier League match on Thursday night.
Nordhoff High’s Laila Litonjua, left, hits the ball back over the net while Villanova Prep’s Hannah Kolbecktries to block during their Frontier League match on Thursday night.
The swagger is back at Nordhoff High.
Back in the ’80s and ’90s — under 2009 Ventura County Hall of Fame inductee coach Cher Glass — Rangers volleyball teams dominated: eight league, four CIF and two State titles.
Current coach Rene Nakao-Mauch, who was an assistant under Glass, now has four league titles of her own, but this is perhaps her first team that carries itself with the outward confidence of those Glass squads.
Nakao-Mauch’s Rangers, who went undefeated in Frontier League competition last year, parlayed that confidence into a three-game, 25-11, 25-10, 25-9, sweep of visiting Villanova Thursday, improving to 6-6 overall and 2-0 in league.
“Volleyball is a pretty big head game, and a lot of how the girls do has to do with what their mind-set is even before the game starts as well as how they handle adversity during the game,” said Nakao-Mauch. “Tonight, the way we played — fired up and confident and together — meant that we weren’t going to get down after a mistake or a point, that we were going to pick each other up and just go about business and get the next point.”
And the points came fast and furious for the Rangers, who never trailed.
Led by senior Laila Litonjua — MVP of the Carpinteria Tournament, which Nordhoff won — and teammate Ashley Sandefur, the Rangers converted 28 of its 60 hits while limiting the Wildcats to just 17 of 82, outblocking the guests 18-4.
Litonjua and Sandefur each recorded a dozen kills, and Leah Paquette and Meggie Graham added seven — in large part thanks to the adept passing of Courtney Whaley and Jessica Ammerman, who combined for 17 assists.
“It’s so different than a couple of years ago,” said Litonjua. “After winning league last year and the way coaches are so positive now, we come into the gym and (know we’ve done the work) and expect to play well and expect to win.”
Despite the best efforts of Villanova’s Hannah Kolbeck (seven kills, four blocks and six assists), Lilian Miles (two kills, eight digs), Ava Plasmyer (three kills) and Kaylee O’Malley (seven digs), Sandefur was the force at the net, consistently disrupting the Wildcats offense, knocking down a match-high eight blocks — including a pair of impressive block-kills at the end of Games 2 and 3.
What Sandefur missed at the net, Graham (seven digs) and Jessica Lugotoff (nine digs to go along with more than a dozen perfectly executed serve-receive passes) covered.
Meanwhile, Villanova coach Loren Wiggens felt his team lacked confidence as much as Nordhoff exuded it.
“We were flat the whole night,” he said. “The girls scaled back and were afraid of making mistakes. We weren’t hitting our seams and instead hitting right at people, but that’s something we can work on for next time.”
Nordhoff will put its two-year league win-streak on the line again next Tuesday when it travels to Santa Clara.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Volleyball Freshman Thriving
From today's Ventura County Star:
Volleyball freshmen thriving
By Rhiannon Potkey
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Cal Lutheran women’s volleyball coach Kellee Roesel expected her incoming freshmen would barely survive the first week of practice.
Roesel figured she would work them into the rotation later in the season once they were more comfortable.
But plans changed.
Not only did the freshmen survive, they thrived.
“They stepped up immediately,” Roesel said. “They gave the returning players everything they could handle and were winning drills. That was really a pleasant surprise.”
The early indoctrination continued over the weekend at the Trinity River Classic in Texas. Freshman Rachel Smith won the starting outside hitter spot for CLU () after a performance that earned the 5-foot-7 Newbury Park High graduate all-tournament honors.
“She proved she could really be something special at this level,” Roesel said. “It looks like there is nothing to her, but she jumps out of the gym. That kid does a lot of the right things.”
CLU, ranked No. 14 in the nation, will be hosting its own tournament on Friday and Saturday. The Cal-Lu-fornia Invitational features 14 teams, and each team is guaranteed four matches.
“We have a lot of good West Region teams coming, so it should really give us an idea of what we are going to be facing in the playoffs,” Roesel said. “Plus, we get to see all the strong teams in our conference and that will be an advantage.”
CLU finished last season as the NCAA West Regional runner-up and returns 11 players from that squad.
Allison Kerr, Erin Exline, Cori Hayes and Megan Thorpe are among the statistical leaders back in the rotation.
But it’s the seven freshmen, which includes setters Lindsey Walsh and Jackie Russell of Newbury Park, who could determine CLU’s potential.
“This could be the best recruiting class I have had,” said Roesel, in her fourth season. “Every day at practice is going to be so competitive and a battle for positions. That is exactly the way I want it. It will push everyone to improve.”
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is holding a conference tournament for the first time this year in volleyball.
The top four teams will meet in early November to determine the SCIAC’s automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.
“We just need to be playing really good by the end of the month and just keep getting better,” she said. “The conference is going to be an all-out battle and hopefully our kids can step up to the challenge. But I am pretty excited about this group.”
Volleyball freshmen thriving
By Rhiannon Potkey
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Cal Lutheran women’s volleyball coach Kellee Roesel expected her incoming freshmen would barely survive the first week of practice.
Roesel figured she would work them into the rotation later in the season once they were more comfortable.
But plans changed.
Not only did the freshmen survive, they thrived.
“They stepped up immediately,” Roesel said. “They gave the returning players everything they could handle and were winning drills. That was really a pleasant surprise.”
The early indoctrination continued over the weekend at the Trinity River Classic in Texas. Freshman Rachel Smith won the starting outside hitter spot for CLU () after a performance that earned the 5-foot-7 Newbury Park High graduate all-tournament honors.
“She proved she could really be something special at this level,” Roesel said. “It looks like there is nothing to her, but she jumps out of the gym. That kid does a lot of the right things.”
CLU, ranked No. 14 in the nation, will be hosting its own tournament on Friday and Saturday. The Cal-Lu-fornia Invitational features 14 teams, and each team is guaranteed four matches.
“We have a lot of good West Region teams coming, so it should really give us an idea of what we are going to be facing in the playoffs,” Roesel said. “Plus, we get to see all the strong teams in our conference and that will be an advantage.”
CLU finished last season as the NCAA West Regional runner-up and returns 11 players from that squad.
Allison Kerr, Erin Exline, Cori Hayes and Megan Thorpe are among the statistical leaders back in the rotation.
But it’s the seven freshmen, which includes setters Lindsey Walsh and Jackie Russell of Newbury Park, who could determine CLU’s potential.
“This could be the best recruiting class I have had,” said Roesel, in her fourth season. “Every day at practice is going to be so competitive and a battle for positions. That is exactly the way I want it. It will push everyone to improve.”
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is holding a conference tournament for the first time this year in volleyball.
The top four teams will meet in early November to determine the SCIAC’s automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.
“We just need to be playing really good by the end of the month and just keep getting better,” she said. “The conference is going to be an all-out battle and hopefully our kids can step up to the challenge. But I am pretty excited about this group.”
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