' August 8, 2002
Rebuilding or reloading?
KM volleyball team suffered some big losses,
but still plans to make strong run in State 3A
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
With a host of starters gone off last
year’s State championship team, Kings
Mountain High's second-year volley-
ball coach Suzanne Grayson faces a
rebuilding task.
But, she fully expects her team to be
one of the best in the Southwestern
© Foothills Conference and another
strong contender in the State 3A play-
offs.
Grayson is rebuilding her team
around one of the State’s top players,
6-1 senior Shonda Cole, last year’s NC
Volleyball Player of the Year who has
already verbally committed to.play at
the University of South Carolina.
Cole is probably the stfongest hitter
Kings Mountain has ever had, and to
showcase her strength Grayson will
have to develop some younger players
to make good passes and sets.
“Shonda’s definitely our strongest
player, theres no question about that,”
says Grayson. “I feel confident the girls
recognize that. We want to get her the
ball as much as we can. But in order
for us to run our offense we've got to
get good passes to the setters. What we
do offensively will depend on what
our passers do. If they do a good job
the setters will be able to do their job.”
Grayson has six other seniors in
addition to Cole. They are setter
Courtney Osteen, outside hitter Molly
Hamrick, middle blocker Danielle Gill,
defensive specialist Jordan Crisp,
defensive specialist L'Tisha Bell, and
middle blocker Pam Parker.
Right now, Grayson is counting on
Cole, Parker, Gill, Bessemer City trans-
fer Baria Adams, and sophomore
Heather Lappe to provide strength
along the nets because Hamrick and
Crisp are nursing injuries.
Sophomore Blair Heffner and Osteen
will be running KM’s 6-2 offense as
setters, and sophomore Alex Dawson
will see action as an outside hitter.
Other members of the team are Ashton
Teague, Jackie Jarvis, Monica Adams
and Ashley McDaniel.
Kings Mountain opens its season
The Kings Mountain Herald
Tuesday at home at 5:30 p.m. against
Watauga. The Lady Mountaineers host-
ed a 12-team scrimmage last Saturday
and performed well, but Grayson said
she saw a lot of areas that need
improvement.
“We weren't ready to play an oppo-
nent, but we were certainly ready to
practice against them and it showed us
some things we need to work on,” she
said. “The scrimmage enabled our
younger players to get some confi-
dence and gave them an opportunity
to play with each other and jell with
each other.”
The team went through a four-hour
clinic Tuesday with coaches from the
University of South Carolina and got a
lot of tips on fine tuning their offense
and defense.
Although the SWFH is one of the
toughest leagues in the state (KM and
Fred T. Foard have five State champi-
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Shonda Cole, last year’s State Volleyball Player of the Year, returns for what
should be a spectacular season with the Kings Mountain Lady Mountaineers. .
onships between them), Grayson fully
expects her team to be in the thick of
the battle for the three State playoff
berths
“We've got a lot of young girls,” she
said. “Right now, we're not conference
champions but I think with the athletes
we have, if they will continue to work
then the matches will take care of
themselves. We're not where we want
to be yet. We have to work hard all
«season. Our goal is to be better every
day, so when we have to win I plan on
us being ready.”
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FALL SPORTS
SCHEDULES
VOLLEYBALL.
AUGUST
13 - Watauga, 5:30; 19 - at
South Point, 4:30; 21 -
Country Day, 5 p.m; 23-24 -
Great Eight Tournament at
Guilford College (TBA); 28 -
at Shelby 4:30; Aug. 29 - at
Freedom 5 p.m.
SEPTEMBER
5 - at Hickory, 5 p.m.; 7 -
Providence and West
Charlotte at Providence, 10
am.; 10 - Burns 5 p.m.; 12 -
at R-S Central 5 p.m.; 17 - St.
Stephens 5 p.m.; 19 - Crest 5
p-m.; 21 - Myers Park 11
a.m.; 24 - at Fred T. Foard 5
p.m.
: OCTOBER
1 - Hickory 5 p.m.; 3 - at
Burns 5 p.m.; 7 - at Country
Day 5 p.m; 8 - R-S Central 5
p-m.; 10 - at St. Stephens 5
p-m.; 15 - at Crest 5 p.m.; 17
- Fred. T. Foard 5 p.m. 22 -
First round state playoffs; 24
- District playoffs. 28 -
Sectional playoffs; 29 -
Regional playoffs.
NOVEMBER
2 - State championship.
MEN’S SOCCER
: AUGUST
13 - East Rutherford; 14 -
at South Point 6:30; 19 - at
East Rutherford; 28 - South
Point 6:30.
SEPTEMBER
3 - Highland; 9 - at Shelby;
11 - Hickory; 12 - at
Highland; 16 - Burns; 18 - at
RS Central; 19 - Newton
Conover; 23 - St. Stephens;
25 - Crest; 30 - at Fred T.
Foard.
OCTOBER
2 - at Newton; 7 - Hickory;
9 - at Burns; 14 - RS Central;
16 - at St. Stephens; 21 - at
Crest; 23 - Fred T. Foard
*Games at 6 p.m. unless
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SEPTEMBER
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OCTOBER
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CROSS COUNTRY
AUGUST
27 - Crest
SEPTEMBER
3 - St. Stephens; 10 - at
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OCTOBER
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26 - Regionals at KM.
NOVEMBER
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VARSITY FOOTBALL
AUGUST
30 - at East Gaston
SEPTEMBER
6 - at South Point; 13 -
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OCTOBER
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