FALL SPORTS PREVIEW 2013: Burnet volleyball
The 2013 Burnet High School varsity volleyball team is Rose Bailey (front row), Brittney Barksdale (second row, left) and Cassidy Connolly; Megan Schmidt, Sami Hogan, Brandi Bond, Miranda Weeks, Danielle Lindley and Kasey Taylor; student trainer Dakota Brinlee (back row, left), Madison Hall, Hannah Langley, head coach Salye Coles, Sarah Poe, Jill Rosow and manager Angelica Watson. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro
TEAM: Burnet High School volleyball
HEAD COACH: Sayle Coles
DISTRICT: 8-3A
2012 RESULT: 8-23 overall and 4-6 in district
RETURNERS: Danielle Lindley, Rose Bailey, Jill Rosow, Brittany Barksdale, Sarah Poe
NEWCOMERS: Miranda Weeks, Sami Hogan, Kasey Taylor, Madison Hall
OUTLOOK: To pump up the 2013 Lady Dawgs, newly hired head coach Coles scheduled the first practice of the season at midnight Aug. 5. And it worked, she said.
“We’re just oozing with talent,” she said. “The kids are the most coachable group of young ladies. They take the idea and go with it. I feel blessed.”
Burnet missed the playoffs for the first time in four years in 2012.
Entering this season, the Lady Dawgs are learning a new system for the third time in three years.
Coles, who comes from San Angelo Lakeview and is entering her 28th year of coaching, was hired during the spring and came to Burnet once a week to work with the players for 45 minutes before school ended.
“They got dressed quickly and came out on the floor,” she said. “It was more of ‘Let’s evaluate this skill’ on this day.”
To improve their individual skills, Rosow and Hall spent their offseason playing league volleyball with players from Marble Falls High School.
Burnet will attempt to nab one of the four playoff spots this season, but standing in the way are Liberty Hill, Gatesville, Brownwood, Llano and Lampasas.
“I’m excited about it,” Coles said. “I think we’re going to turn heads. I truly believe we’re going to be the team that everyone is talking about.”
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The 2013 Burnet High School Lady Dawgs junior varsity volleyball team. Staff photo by Jennifer Fierro[/tab] [tab title=”FRESHMEN”]
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