{"id":9794,"date":"2014-10-27T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:28:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:28:17","slug":"camosun-chargers-volleyball-teams-look-forward-to-successful-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/10\/27\/camosun-chargers-volleyball-teams-look-forward-to-successful-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Chargers Volleyball teams look forward to successful seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Camosun Chargers volleyball teams are off to a flying start, but they still have a long and competitive season ahead of them and ambitious goals to reach, according to their head coaches.<\/p>\n

Both women\u2019s head coach Chris Dahl and men\u2019s coach Charles Parkinson have high hopes for their teams after the opening weekend of play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to enjoy what we\u2019re doing,\u201d says Dahl. \u201cBut, absolutely, we want to be competing amongst the best for the right to call ourselves the champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team at their opening weekend (photo by Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parkinson is even more direct than Dahl about the men\u2019s team\u2019s goals for this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur first goal is to win the provincial championship, and our second goal is to win the national championship,\u201d says Parkinson. \u201cWe\u2019re a competitive team, so we have to aim high.\u201d<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s team earned two straight victories in their opening weekend against long-time rivals the VIU Mariners, defeating them for the first time in 20 years. The Chargers won their home game with three straight winning sets, and prevailed against the raucous crowds at VIU with three wins in four sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think any program in our conference and across Canada looks at matches against VIU as a benchmark,\u201d says Dahl. \u201cFor us to handle it the way that we did the past weekend, with control, confidence, and composure from start to finish, was really impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the men\u2019s team\u2019s opening night fell flat with a loss of three sets in a row against the Mariners on the Chargers\u2019 home turf. They came back fighting on VIU\u2019s campus for a four-set victory and a hopeful overall start to the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cFriday night was a rough night for us. We were trying something different. It didn\u2019t really work,\u201d says Parkinson. \u201cOn Saturday we tried a different combination and different guys in different positions and it worked really, really well… So to come out with a split where we lost at home, but won on the road, I feel pretty good about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s women\u2019s volleyball Chargers have a lot of experience, boasting three players with five years each in the program. Dahl says that the strong bonds already existing between team members have made it easy for the team to get their skills applied to the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur student athletes dedicate a tremendous amount of time to honing their craft,\u201d says Dahl. \u201cWe feel that we have trained the right way and are going to continue to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the men\u2019s team met for a three-day retreat before the Labour Day weekend to build teamwork and freshen skills before the school year, but there\u2019s still a lot of work to do to get this ambitious team where they want to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to find the right combination of players is sometimes a tricky thing. If you look on paper at individuals, they might all have strengths in different areas, but from a competitive point of view it might not be your best combination,\u201d says Parkinson. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to find combinations that, when you\u2019re out there, have the most synchronicity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Camosun Chargers volleyball teams are off to a flying start, but they still have a long and competitive season ahead of them and ambitious goals to reach, according to their head coaches. Both women\u2019s head coach Chris Dahl and men\u2019s coach Charles Parkinson have high hopes for their teams after the opening weekend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9795,"comment_status":"open","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":[8,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-october-29-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","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=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9796,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/9796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}