As the new season begins, the MHS girls volleyball team have started their season 2-5.
The first win of the season was against Stoneham with a score of 3-1 followed by another win against Winthrop with a score of 3-2. Unfortunately, the team has been unable to capitalize on their strong start and has gone on to lose their next five matches.
Senior captain Mirabelle Jean Louis is looking forward to how the season will go. The team successfully won their first two matches of the season, and despite falling short on their next ones, all members of the team have assisted in putting forth their best efforts.
Junior Rodneisha Normil explained that the season was off to a great start in the beginning of the season as they had a 2-0 record but now the team has a record of 2-5. Normil continues to elaborate on how the season is “not looking as it should” but she’s not worried as she is assured her teammates will “get back on top” as she states the ultimate goal of the season is to make it to states.
Junior Julia Argueta describes how although this season still remains young and so far has not had the outcome that the team have expected, she says they “started on the right foot” despite having suffered a couple loses following that.
Argueta continues to add that their previous matches were never games that the team could not handle or “big point differences.” She believes that their matches have always been close, in some cases just losing by a few points but they have “all been mental challenges for us all” she explains.
Normil’s goal for this season is just to make it through the season feeling “satisfied” with what she has done on the court. She states, “as long as [she] know[s] that [she’s] doing what [she’s] capable of doing, while still pushing [herself], there’s nothing [she’ll] regret.”
As for improvements, individually, Normil hopes to become a “well rounded and smart player.” As for a team, she believes that the improvements that could be made is the level of seriousness and how well the team focuses.
Sophomore Gelila Lemma believes that the team started off very energized, and ready to play all of their games to the fullest. Although she says that there were some difficult times when they would get “hung up” on a point the team missed, but the team would “grow from [their] mistake.”
Lemma describes that their head coach Dan Jurowski provides the teammates with tips on how she should be standing on the court and “critiques [her] on anything that [she] can improve on.”
Overall the MHS girls volleyball team hopes to bounce back and have a memorable season.
