Oscar Aldana
Volleyball games are approaching, and the Harding volleyball team is getting ready to start out on the right foot. There are high expectations from the players and coach. Head coach Meredith Fear hopes that this will be a blessed year with many victories.
There is a level of concern seeing as half of the players are new. There are 16 players in total, eight of them have played for Harding previously; seven are freshmen and one is a transfer student.
Despite the onslaught of new players, Fear thinks that the team will be successful since they have been doing high level practices to get strong for the upcoming volleyball games.
“Our practices have been very high level, very competitive, so students can still expect they are going to play high level intense games,” Fear said.
The first volleyball home game is Sept. 24 against Ouachita Baptist. The coach has high expectations not only for the game, but of the team as well. Senior Delaney Garner said students on campus support the volleyball team and the players are motivated to achieve victory in the games. She thinks it is important to support one another to have better results.
“The team atmosphere motivates me to do better and obviously my parents’ support,” Garner said.
Garner also said the coach’s support has been important to succeed in the team since the coach always encourages the players to do their best. She said that the players lift weights two times a week so their bodies are endurance for every game that they are going to perform.
Junior Maegan Lacy is familiar with volleyball because of her mom since she was a child because she was a volleyball coach. “I started playing volleyball when I was 8 years old competitively, my mom was a volleyball coach, so I have always had volleyball in my head,” she said.
