{"id":17087,"date":"2022-04-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=17087"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:16:04","slug":"volleyball-team-volunteers-at-local-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2022\/04\/21\/volleyball-team-volunteers-at-local-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball team volunteers at local elementary school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Kayleigh Tritschler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harding University volleyball team spends a small portion of their Wednesday mornings with the children at McRae Elementary School. At 7 a.m., the volleyball women greet the kids as they go to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhenever we go to the car line, we go on Wednesday mornings, and we open up the doors in place of the teachers,\u201d junior libero Emma Winiger said. \u201cWe go out there so that the teachers can get ready. We say good morning to the kids and make sure they have everything in their bags. It\u2019s just a great way to start off our days and theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team got plugged into this specific elementary school in the Searcy area because of a connection their coach had with the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy son attends McRae Elementary, so I reached out to their principal to see if there was any way Harding volleyball could be of service to her or the school,\u201d head women\u2019s volleyball coach Meredith Fear said. \u201cWe started doing it last fall and continued this semester as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opportunity allows the team to bond outside of the volleyball court and puts Harding students into the Searcy community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Harding community is so easy to get plugged into, but then the Searcy community, outside of Harding, it\u2019s really cool to find ways to get plugged into that community,\u201d junior outside hitter Ally Stoner said. \u201cI love doing the car line because even at seven in the morning the kids have this energy to them and this joy that they bring. Doing this with my teammates who also bring so much joy, I love that, and it\u2019s just super fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in the freezing cold weather, wrapped up in their coats, the team makes an effort to be at the school from 7:30-8 a.m., helping the kids out of their cars and safely into the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne thing that has been \u2026 difficult is whenever the weather would be bad we would be out there bundled up in the cold,\u201d Winiger said. \u201cIt\u2019s been really great now that the weather is nice out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This early morning time with the McRae students will continue for the team in the future and could possibly look different next semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe definitely plan to continue working with McRae in the future,\u201d Fear said. \u201cWe are hopeful that next year we may be able to get back into the classrooms and help in a bigger way.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kayleigh Tritschler The Harding University volleyball team spends a small portion of their Wednesday mornings with the children at McRae Elementary School. At 7 a.m., the volleyball women greet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15208,"featured_media":17089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}