Website Coordinator
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Kresson Hrdlichka
Important Dates
LSHS Activities Fair, Thursday, Aug. 7, from 6-8:00 Auditorium
LSHS Parent/Player Mandatory Meeting, Monday, Aug. 11, 6:00 Performance Gym
LSHS/LNHS Volleyball Scrimmage Game at LNHS on Aug. 16, 8:00-1:00
LSHS Scrimmage Games on Aug. 19, from 9:00-12:00, breakfast concessions available
LSHS Volleyball Youth Night, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 7:00 Varsity Game
LSHS Fall Festival, Sunday Sept. 28, 3:00-6:00
LSHS Senior Night, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 7:00 Varsity Game
LSHS Volleyball 2008 Banquet at Legends Golf Club, Monday, Nov. 10, beginning at 5:30 pm (social hour), 6:00 dinner
News from the Coach:
FALL TRY-OUT INFORMATION:
Try-outs for the High School teams will take place on August 11th. All Sport Registration needs to be taken care of before August 11th or you will not be allowed to tryout. This includes having a current sports physical. Please arrange for all of this to be completed before August 11th. All girls interested in trying out for a team must be there on the first day. If you are unable to make it to the first day of tryouts you must speak directly to Head Coach Jen Nelson. Individual team practice times will be uploaded to the website shortly. Varsity players should plan on practice from 8-1 each day for the first week.
Tryouts are open to girls 8-12 grade.
8th graders are invited to tryout for the 9th grade volleyball team.
All girls 9-12 grade are invited to try-out for the JV and Varsity Teams. All 9th graders that do not make the JV or Varisty team will then report to 9th grade tryouts.
This year for all girls 9-12 there will be Physical Testing that will begin at 7:30am. The testing includes: 1/2 mile timed run, vertical testing for approach and block jumps, a timed ladder agility test, and a T-test. Volleyball Skill testing will immediately follow.
Keep checking the website for more information for tryouts to follow shortly!
Congratulations to the new 2008 Captains Grace, Josi and Taylor!
2007 Team Highlights
14 - 11 regular season record
First Place finish at the Visitation Tournament
Second Place finish at the Farmington Tournament
First Sections win against Kennedy
Jen (Blendermann) Nelson is returning in her second year as varsity coach for Lakeville South Volleyball. Please note her name change from Blendermann to Nelson over this summer.
Tiffany Sayuk:
This is Tiffany’s 1st year with the Cougars as well as her first year coaching at the high school level. At the club level, Tiffany has been involved in coaching for Mankato Juniors, Omeja Juniors and M1.
As a student-athlete at Minnesota State Mankato, she earned All-NCC and All-Region honors. She was also name MSU-Mankato’s Female Athlete of the Year (‘05-'06). In high school, she attended New Life Academy of Woodbury and participated in volleyball, basketball and track.
The new junior varsity coach is Crystal Dohman: Coach Dohman has several years of volleyball coaching experience, including coaching for the New Prague JO team, the junior varsity team in Eden Prairie and as a Northern Lights JO coach. Although she couldn't play volleyball in college due to injuries, Coach Dohman was an outside hitter at New Prague High School and for Northern Lights teams. When asked what has been her favorite volleyball memory, she says that "every game and every match has a new memorable moment in it...that is what makes it so exciting."
The returning 9th grade coaches are Stephen Willingham for the 9A team and Darlee Anderson for the 9B team. Willingham says that he has been "coaching forever" and has been the 9A Cougar coach for three years. Prior to that, he was the assistant varsity coach at Lakeville High School. Anderson is in her second year with the Lakeville South 9B team and in her 12th year of coaching. Prior to moving to Lakeville, Anderson had coached JV and assistant varsity for 4 years in Wisconsin. She also was the coach for the 13's Lakeville South Juniors team this past year.
2006 Team Highlights
Tied for third place at the Faribault Tournament on October 14
First-ever win at Lakeville South in a home match against Rosemount in four games on October 13.
A come-from-behind win against Northfield in five games on October 10.
First-ever Lake Conference win against Jefferson in three games on September 28.
Placed 6th at the Farmington Tournament on September 16.
Placed 1st at the Visitation Tournament on September 9.
First regular season win against Rochester Century in four games on August 25.
Links
Several members of the volleyball team play during the off-season on the following JO teams. Please click on the links below to find out more about these programs:
