{"id":21784,"date":"2021-11-08T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21784"},"modified":"2023-09-11T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:27:24","slug":"camosun-chargers-womens-volleyball-team-back-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/11\/08\/camosun-chargers-womens-volleyball-team-back-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Chargers women’s volleyball team back in action"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost two years of being shut down due to COVID-19, the Camosun Chargers are back in action. The women\u2019s volleyball team is getting geared up and ready to throw themselves into a brand-new year and season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like the longest pre-season in history, to be honest,\u201d says Chargers women\u2019s volleyball coach Brent Hall. \u201cIt feels a little bit surreal to heading into games in just a few weeks. But I think it\u2019s coming together well from a team-culture standpoint, because as team, we\u2019re pretty united.\u201d<\/p>\n

Correina McNeice is one of the Chargers\u2019 most seasoned players; this is her fourth year on the team. McNeice is optimistic about the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing back from COVID-19 was hard,\u201d says McNeice. \u201cWe only have two new team players, and because of social distancing we didn\u2019t really have time to bond. But we had a really strong team culture already with the players that we had, and it\u2019s been fun getting to know the new people and build on that team culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall says that the Chargers have put extra emphasis on training and understanding each other\u2019s priorities in what has been a very unsure and disheartening time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been without its faults; there\u2019s been a few bumps in the road, a few injuries to get through,\u201d says Hall. \u201cBut, overall, we\u2019ve got a pretty optimistic outlook about it; we\u2019re going to be pretty strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun Charger Correina McNeice in action (photo by Kevin Light Photography).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McNeice says that it was difficult to know where to focus during the period when COVID-19 was most prevalent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really hard throughout COVID,\u201d says McNeice, \u201cbecause we couldn\u2019t actually play volleyball. So, throughout the season we got to work on things we hadn\u2019t necessarily had got the time to work on before. So personally, for me, that\u2019s my mental game and my confidence on the court. So, I think it helped us all focus on smaller goals rather than larger goals as a group. It was a blessing in disguise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Approaching games with island rivals Vancouver Island University Mariners have the Chargers putting in some extra effort, but McNeice says the league is really focusing on all-around improvement and spirit (the games happened on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6,after this interview took place; the team lost on Friday but won on Saturday).<\/p>\n

\u201cSome wins would be nice, of course,\u201d says McNeice, \u201cbut I also just want to play and have fun. I play ball because I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall says the goals for the Chargers are focused mostly on the long term.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a long season, so really our plan is to peak for the provincials in February and the nationals after that in March,\u201d says Hall. \u201cIt\u2019s always nice to start the season with a win, and it\u2019s extra nice if we can get in with a win against our island rivals, but really the success of our season will be hinging around winning our first matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall also says the Chargers have some exciting new athletes on the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a local athlete by the name of Amelia McCulloch,\u201d says Hall. \u201cShe\u2019s a really promising athlete and really exciting to watch. Another new player to watch is Jasanna Kunz, she\u2019s very strong, very athletic; she\u2019s played a lot of beach volleyball in her life. She\u2019s got a great skill set, is first year, and is someone that fans can probably expect to see on the floor quite a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall is anxious for the chance to show the Chargers off after so many challenges in the past two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping we can get a lot of students out,” he says. “We\u2019ve got a brand-new centre court, the gym looks great, with new bleachers. It would be great to fill the seats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After almost two years of being shut down due to COVID-19, the Camosun Chargers are back in action. The women\u2019s volleyball team is getting geared up and ready to throw themselves into a brand-new year and season. \u201cIt feels like the longest pre-season in history, to be honest,\u201d says Chargers women\u2019s volleyball coach Brent Hall. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24271,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784\/revisions\/24271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}