volleyball Archive

Chloe Ates is a senior libero on the Baker School volleyball team with no plans on stepping away from the sport any time soon. The Lady Gator stalwart already has scholarship offers from Gulf Coast State College in Panama City and St. Leo in the Tampa Bay area. St. Leo is a NCAA Division II program that competes in the Sunshine State Conference.

Crestview High School’s volleyball team is hard at work this month preparing for the upcoming volleyball season which is only two months away. The off season process this year is much easier than last when the school was replacing the gym floor forcing the team to become nomads when looking for practice space. Now all coach James Kerrell has to do his typical coaching duties without trying to schedule gym space.

It’s not too early for young ladies to start planning to attend the Crestview High School Kids Volleyball Camp. Camp sessions are July 10-13 and July 17-20. The time is 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

A new sport is taking Crestview High School by storm.

You’ve probably seen it during the Summer Olympics. And being less than an hour from some of the best beaches in the world, you might have even played a pickup game or two of the increasingly popular sport.

It has been a banner year for Crestview High School athletics on the field and in the classroom.

The school recently recognized the 15 student-athletes that have signed athletic scholarships so far this school year.

Samantha Kerrell has made a college decision. The Crestview High School volleyball senior will be taking her skills an hour north to Andalusia, Ala., where she will play for Lurleen B. Wallace Community College.

“I actually looked at a few other colleges and they’re good,” she said. “It’s close to home and I just really feel like I had a place there and the coach (Janie Wiggins) and the team wanted me.

It has been a few weeks since Baker’s volleyball team fell to Liberty County in the state championship match last month. As is the case with all things, time marches on at a clip faster than any of us want to think about.

Heidi Sheikho’s high school volleyball career ended a little more than a month ago when Crestview was eliminated from the district tournament.

Sheikho’s career with the Bulldogs might be over as she’ll graduate in the spring, but she will continue to play volleyball as she signed with Belhaven on Friday.

A little more than a week after Baker lost in the volleyball state championship, Gator players Kailyn Ellis and Leighton Mitchell were back on the court at the University of West Florida Fieldhouse as members of the East team in the Pensacola Sport Association All-Star Volleyball Classic.

Laurel Hill School has a rich history of volleyball excellence. Unfortunately, that excellence has been hard to come by in recent years. The last time the Hoboes were in the state tournament was 2017 meaning the season ended in the district tournament.