Volleyball

The Rockets volleyball team was off to a fast start at the beginning of the season with winning 8 out of 10 non conference games. They also took home first place medals from the Marshal tournament. With conference games coming up, the Rockets have high hopes of winning and bettering their record.

The team this year consists of 7 returning varsity players, Kristen Slotman, Rachel Slotman, Kaslin Ebbers, Kim Hoffmann, Malorie Kappler, Erika Kirst, and Ashley Turnquist, and 7 new comers, Becca Arentsen, Jackie Bruggink, Stephanie Rupple, Cheyenne Dutter, Laura Lamers, Nikki Gottsacker, and Steph TeStroote. Mrs. Weavers is also back after taking a year off with the determination to take her team to the next level. Our captains this year are three seniors Kaslin Ebbers, Kristen Slotman, and Rachel Slotman. These three girls are working very hard on and off the court to make there team as best as possible. One of the captains, Rachel Slotman, says “All of the girls on the team this year strive to get better, because of this; our team could go far in the post season. I am really excited to go see what happens the rest of the year.”

Setting goals is important to any sports team, and that’s exactly what our volleyball team is doing. The girls all got together and thought of goals that would be good for the team to have. Some of these goals for each game are having a 90% serving average, 20 kills, 20 digs, 10 blocks, and never losing by less than ten points. These goals were set very high for the team only because they know that with a lot of practice and a whole bunch of effort there team can reach any goal. Another one of our goals was to be in the top three of our conference.

So far our conference is going very well. We have had four victories against Ozaukee, Random Lake, Christian, and Elkhart Lake. So we have only lost two games against two very good teams, Oostburg and Howards Grove. With games against Lutheran, Stockbridge, and Kohler coming up the Rockets are hoping for wins and ending the season with a great conference record and hopefully doing well in regionals.