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This season was new and different. With a new season overall wasn't their best. They didn't win but two,
new challenges and new opportunities. After all, most of the though their playing itself was better. The team worked well
freshman are on JV or reserve so they get the chance to work together and tried their hardest. “The girls rose above the defeat
with Coach Yong along with his new coaches. The team has the and kept going until the end,” said freshman Sydni Szczepanik.
opportunity to start fresh with the program, unlike the JV and reserve still kept a smile on their face and just had fun
sophomores, juniors, and seniors. They begin their high school with it. They showed family and fans that we can play and work
career this year just like the new program is one so they will as hard as anyone else.
grow and learn together. The Ralston volleyball program will always have high and lows
As freshmen, they're already in uncharted waters with it but they will always pull through to build an innovative,
being their first year of high school, and it is tough. Now hardworking season. Coach Yong said, “Everyone is so willing to
imagine coming in as freshman and playing with sophomores learn and trusted the coaches to get them to that next level in
and juniors while being coached by all new by all new coaches. volleyball."
As a team we had to grow and adapt to change. By the end of
the lively as well as hardworking season, we were a team who
its struggles but came out maybe not as the best team in the
world but as a team who did their best.