{"id":23150,"date":"2022-10-19T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23150"},"modified":"2022-10-21T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:00:05","slug":"camosun-chargers-student-athletes-get-ready-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/10\/19\/camosun-chargers-student-athletes-get-ready-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Chargers student athletes get ready for season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Camosun Chargers 2022 season is kicking off for men\u2019s and women\u2019s volleyball and basketball\u2014the volleyball home opener is on October 22 and the basketball home opener is on November 4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Men\u2019s basketball point guard Takeshi Croke and women\u2019s volleyball middle blocker Gracie May are looking forward to another season filled with new team members, travelling, and competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Croke is a veteran Charger, entering his fourth year of playing on the team.<\/p>\n

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Camosun Chargers men\u2019s basketball point guard Takeshi Croke is entering his fourth year with the team (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI love basketball, for one, but also just kind of the experience of seeing the boys every day and competing and, of course, travelling for games,\u201d says Croke. \u201cIt\u2019s really the team atmosphere I enjoy most.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only is Croke excited to practice and play with his new team members, but he\u2019s excited for Camosun to host provincials for the first time in several years. Being a Charger has impacted Croke\u2019s post-secondary experience immensely, he says. It\u2019s helped him create lasting and close relationships with fellow Chargers, which is something he greatly values.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s impacted it a lot, especially for me because I don\u2019t talk to a lot of people in my classes, but it was nice that I was able, even in my first year, to make a lot of friends right away through my teammates,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd then also even people from the volleyball team and also the other basketball team. There\u2019s a really good team and friendship atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also a fourth-year athlete, May says that her most memorable moment being on the Chargers so far was making it to nationals in her first year on the team in the 2019\/2020 season, which also happened to be the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only the second or third time in Chargers history making it to nationals for women\u2019s volleyball, so that\u2019s huge,\u201d says May. \u201cAnd then it was super interesting being there right at the beginning of COVID in March 2020. About 30 minutes before our first game, all the fans got kicked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

May is hopeful about the potential of the team with new and returning players and says they are striving toward their goal of making it to nationals again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new season, we have so much potential with the new girls we brought in and the returners,\u201d says May. \u201cWe have an amazing coaching staff, and everyone has gelled together so nicely so far this season, so I\u2019m just excited to see what our team can do with the group that we have, and then, of course, our hope is to make it to nationals, which is at VIU [Vancouver Island University] this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

May says that every year she\u2019s been on the team she\u2019s called her teammates and coaching staff her family. But there\u2019s another reason why the Chargers are a family matter for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also have my sister on the team,\u201d she says. \u201cSo, I see her almost every single day all day, and I have so many best friends. Also, you get a different relationship with your professors and the people around the school when you go up to them and say, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m a Charger. I have to miss class for this or that.\u2019 But just the relationships you have to make with them because of those extra conversations and their interest in your sport makes you feel really special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Camosun Chargers 2022 season is kicking off for men\u2019s and women\u2019s volleyball and basketball\u2014the volleyball home opener is on October 22 and the basketball home opener is on November 4.\u00a0 Men\u2019s basketball point guard Takeshi Croke and women\u2019s volleyball middle blocker Gracie May are looking forward to another season filled with new team members, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23200,"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":[238,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-sports","category-sports","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150","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=23150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23152,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions\/23152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}