Gross High School - Heard The Latest Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Q0 Look out! Vicki Buscher pounds a serve To The opposiTion. Coach Krupskl Talks sTraTegy wiTh The Team during a Tense game. T' l 'Lili DeTerminaTion Team gains confidence The junior varsiTy volleyball Team could have been called The sopho- more volleyball Team. AII '12 girls were sophomores. We sTarTed slowly, said lVlr. Mick Krupskl, jv volleyball coach. We lacked The experience of schools which had juniors on Their jv Teams. 'l2Af1v volleyball ThaT inexperience showed as we losT our firsT several games, buT afTer we gained confidence, we finished off The season winning eighT of our final 'll games. According To Coach Krupskl, The vicTories over Marian and Lincoln NorTheasT, TradiTional volleyball . 2 Z 2 5 T T Q ? T powers, were The high poinT of The season. Michaela Ecker headed The Tea as The Top spiker and she evenTuall moved up To The varsiTy Team. OT er key players included Chris Beedl who was The Team's Top seTTer, an Kelli Tangeman, who was The prima ry blocker. ' Every girl conTribuTed To our suc cess, some geTTing The spiking' glory and oThers doing The les glamorous work of The back ro diggers, Coach Krupskl said.

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A 1:7 l 1 ' CuTsTanding ' 1 A Y 4 4 I 4 4 it I 4 A I Christy Moline sfarls her powerful serve To The oTher Team. Serving was one of The skills The Team worked To improve during The sea- SOD. Besides Teaching skllls, coaches offer moral supporT To Their Teams. Mr. Powers shows his approval of The play made by his freshman volleyball Team. Parllclpailon In sports has given people The chance To make many new friends. The members of The freshman volleyball Team prepare To back up Chris Johnson as she geTs ready To refurn The ball. Trash seT pace for compeTiTion The freshman volleyball Team gave coach Dave Powers The mosT successful season ThaT he had seen in his Three years as coach of fresh- man volleyball. The A Team had a Q-'I record. They were The co-champions of The 'l26ffrosh volleyball Freshman lnTerciTy Conference and The winners of The Conference Tour- namenT. The B Team had an un- defeaTed record of TO-O. According To Coach Powers, The mosT improvemenT was shown when The girls were working To- geTher as a Team - noT jusT as indivi- duals. Teresa Alvarez said, ln The games, we had To cooperaTe wiTh each oTher and we had To know whaT we were doing. We had To have Timing. lT's more a Thinking game Than physical. I learned The basic skills of volley- ball, said STephanie PeralTa, mem- ber of The freshman A Team. Mr. Powers was greaT, she said. He didn'T geT aggravaTed easily and he was always There when we needed him.