{"id":27712,"date":"2026-01-21T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27712"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:44:32","slug":"camosun-chargers-volleyball-teams-heading-into-second-half-of-season-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2026\/01\/21\/camosun-chargers-volleyball-teams-heading-into-second-half-of-season-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Chargers volleyball teams heading into second half of season strong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball captain Edyn Van Brabant (photo by Camosun Chargers Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team struggled a bit in the first half of the season, but they\u2019re is determined to make a solid comeback during the latter half. The team has undergone some notable changes in recent history, losing their coach Brent Hall back in April, with Scott Freeburn taking his place. The players on the team also shifted around and all three team captains left Camosun before the start of this season: Avery Hansen and Paige Roslinsky both moved on to the University of Victoria, and Thalia Cooke is playing for the University of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

Current captains Edyn Van Brabant and Olivia Trionfi have been leading the team to success in the last few games. And while their performance on the court suffered in the first half of the season, Van Brabant is sure that they can make it to provincials if they keep up the steady improvements for the last few months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that we\u2019re still in the upper checkmark, not as good as we can be, but we\u2019ve definitely improved since the beginning of the year,\u201d says Van Brabant. \u201cThere\u2019s still work to be done, so much work, like you can never be high enough. We\u2019re probably like in the middle to being closer to that provincial mark, but I think we\u2019re improving super fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team has been through a lot of changes this past year and have adapted to all of them, bouncing back within the second half of the season to try to end strong. Van Brabant says that the players are happy to be playing for the Chargers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all super grateful that we have this opportunity… It\u2019s something that we don\u2019t take for granted,\u201d says Van Brabant. \u201cAnd just because we know that people pay to be on college teams, and we appreciate the support from people who watch the games and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball captain Jake Bolton (photo by Camosun Chargers Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Things are also looking up for the men\u2019s volleyball team. There were some games lost in October, but it seems that in subsequent games their teamwork and skills have become stronger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the start we\u2019re used to having, usually we come out of the games a bit hotter, but with a younger team now we\u2019re still adjusting. We\u2019re hoping that the second semester goes better,\u201d says captain Jake Bolton. \u201cI think things are going to be going well for us in the second semester. We didn\u2019t have the start we wanted to the start of the year. But I think that\u2019s just going to motivate us more for the second semester.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a big shift in players as the team received four rookies and two transfers at the start of the season. Thanks to the guidance of their head coach and the leadership from their three team captains\u2014Bolton, Matt Rapin, and Edvard Adolfsen\u2014the new players seem to be settling in nicely with the others, and that teamwork is really starting to show on the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been in transition for the last few years; we had an old team for like three or four years, so it\u2019s been kind of a rebuild lately,\u201d says Bolton. \u201cI\u2019d say we\u2019re nearing the end of that and we\u2019ve got a bright future ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team has been training, both individually and as a whole, several times a week to continue improving their skills to perform better on the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe train Monday through Thursday in two-hour training sessions as a team, and then there\u2019s lifts on top of that,\u201d says Bolton. \u201cOutside of practice, we\u2019re expected to lift two times a week and then one team lift as well. Three total\u2014one with the team and then two individually. So, that\u2019s a lot of work and it\u2019s what the guys signed up for, and we all enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It looks like all that hard work is paying off, as the team has their eyes set on provincials. The players are confident that they can make it happen this year with just a little more effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently we are one spot out of a provincial spot, but again I am very confident that we\u2019ll work our way in,\u201d says Bolton. \u201cNationals is a bit more difficult; it\u2019s something we\u2019ve missed the last two seasons. But I really do think we can get there; we\u2019re just focused on making provincials first right now. And once we can do that and secure our spot there, then we\u2019ll worry about the national championships. I\u2019m very confident that we can get to both of those platforms if we put our minds to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolton says that he hopes that the team continues to improve and perform better in the second half of the season in order to secure a spot in provincials, and he\u2019s feeling optimistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got nothing but confidence,\u201d he says, \u201cthat we\u2019re going to be doing better in the second semester.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Camosun Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team struggled a bit in the first half of the season, but they\u2019re is determined to make a solid comeback during the latter half. The team has undergone some notable changes in recent history, losing their coach Brent Hall back in April, with Scott Freeburn taking his place. The players […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27713,"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":[238,8,345,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-sports","category-sports","category-january-21-2026","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712","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=27712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27715,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712\/revisions\/27715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}