Volleyball
19 February, 2025
Record season ahead
With one more piece of an enormous puzzle left to fill Volleyball Horsham will enter its 2025 Summer season with a record number of team entries.
Forty-nine teams have entered for the season that starts tonight with an Opening Round Lightning Spike for “A” grade. The night will start at 6pm with all five teams playing in a fast format in order to give players a hit out before the season proper starts next week.
Volleyball Horsham’s men’s squad co-ordinator Tyler Snowden is keen to get the season underway.
“We spent plenty of time trying to get five even teams together and we thought the best way to test our thinking would be to put it into action, so that’s why we instituted the Opening Round Lightning Spike.”
“All teams will get four games of two nine-minute halves and by using the three ball system it will be a good test for them. They will certainly know volleyball has started by the end of the night that’s for sure.”
Volleyball Horsham vice president Matt McLoughlin said the summer season will see an influx of new juniors and to help with this, a third court has been secured on Monday nights at the Wimmera Lutheran College.
“A mix of junior, C and B grade games will be played at Lutheran, which has enabled us to bring the A Reserve competition back to Monday nights, freeing up Tuesday nights for our members to train.”
“We are setting up the WLC stadium to be a bit of a fortress for the WLC teams, who will play the majority of their games at the stadium, which will be good for those students.”
“We will rotate the junior teams around each week so they all get the opportunity to experience playing on the big court at the WLC stadium. It will be good for their development.”
Co-ordinator of the women’s competition Molly Carter said one final opportunity exists for those latecomers to enter a team or enter as individuals, with entries closing tonight across all grades.
“We would really like to get one more women’s B team to enter and give that competition six teams. The team can be made up of students or adults or a mix of both but has to be an all female team.”
ACADEMY TRIALS
The next two Wednesdays will see trials for boys and girls to become members of the Volleyball Horsham Academy Program.
Academy coach Laelah Robertson said the trials are open to any member who wishes to take their volleyball that one step further.
“We have had good success with our academy program over the last three years and we want to continue that success and give a whole new group a chance.”
“The plan will be to have a senior group and a junior group for both boys and girls so anyone who is keen to progress their game are welcome to trial.”
The trials will be held at St Brigid’s College stadium between 430pm-545pm.
Anyone interested in playing volleyball this season can submit their enquiry to info@volleyballhorsham.com.au