It’s time now for another weekly look at girls’ club volleyball in the USA Volleyball’s Puget Sound Region here in the Snoqualmie Valley Sports Journal.
This past weekend saw the local Power League schedule wrap up, with a number of area teams featuring Valley players putting themselves in prime position for success in the upcoming regional championship tournament at the end of the month. Here’s a rundown of how everyone did, and where everyone finished ranking-wise in their age groups. Fans of Mount Si’s volleyball program should pay especially close attention, as a couple of the returners this fall find themselves on some of the top teams in the region.
U-18
• Island Thunder (Emma Anderson and Jessica Hanners, both Mount Si HS): Went 4-0 in final round of action this past Sunday and finished PSR season 15-8 and on six-match win streak. Finished ranked 21st in the age group.
• Northwest Juniors’ 18’s (Annaliese Jensen and Dana Dolan, both MSHS): Went 2-2 on Sunday and finished PSR season 8-12. Finished ranked 48th in age group.
• Northwest Juniors’ 17’s UnderArmour Blue (Lizzie Belceto, Emily Dann and Chloe Stewart, all MSHS): Went 3-1 Sunday and finished PSR season 12-10. Finished ranked 47th in age group and also beat the NWJ 18’s in one of their matches Sunday.
• Seattle Juniors’ 18’s (Bellah Gogan, MSHS): Went 4-0 Sunday and finished PSR season 14-9. Finished ranked 5th in the age group and on a six match win streak.
• Sudden Impact 18’s Tsunami (Patience O’Neal, Tahoma HS, former MSHS player): Went 4-0 Sunday and finished PSR season 13-2. Also went 0-5 in “Platinum Division” midseason and finished with overall local record of 13-7 and ranked 14th in age group.
• Sudden Impact 17’s Storm (Harper Click, former MSHS player): Went 2-2 Sunday and finished PSR season 16-6, ranked ninth in age group.
U-18 Platinum
• Puget Sound Volleyball Academy 17’s (Hayley West, MSHS): Went 3-2 on Saturday in final Platinum competition down in Longview and finished fifth on the day. Went 7-3 in overall Platinum competition against teams from Oregon and went 9-1 in PSR Power League. Overall local record this spring was 16-4 and they are ranked fourth in 18’s age group. U-17 teams were part of the U-18 age group in local play this season.
U-16
• Northwest Juniors’ UnderArmour Black (Katie Faccone and Nicole Vanderwal, both Cedarcrest HS): Went 1-3 in action this past Saturday and finished the PSR season 8-15, ranked 36th in age group.
• Northwest Juniors’ UnderArmour Blue (Megan Underbrink and Breana Fitzgerald, both MSHS): Went 2-2 Saturday and finished the PSR season 15-8, ranked 16th in age group.
• Northwest Juniors’ UnderArmour Gray (Selah Kuiken, CHS): Went 1-3 Saturday and finished PSR season 10-12, ranked 51st in age group.
• Northwest Juniors’ Baden Black (Hannah Winston, CHS): Went 3-1 Saturday and also finished PSR season 10-12, ranked 55th in age group.
• Carnation-based Valley View went 1-3 Saturday and finished the local schedule 6-16, ranked 59th in the age group.
U-15
• Northwest Juniors’ UnderArmour Blue (Lexi Niehaus and Megan Simpson, both MSHS): Went 2-2 in action on Sunday and finished PSR season 11-10, ranked 22nd in age group.
• Northwest Juniors’ UnderArmour Grey (Ava Mundy, CHS; coached by CHS alum Kendall Koch): Went 3-1 Sunday and finished PSR season 12-9, ranked 42nd in age group. Closed out Power League season winning four of five matches.
• Carnation-based Valley View went 2-2 Sunday and finished PSR season 11-11, ranked 57th in age group.
U-14
• RidgeValley’s 14’s from Snoqualmie went 3-1 Sunday and finished the PSR season 15-7, ranked 73rd in age group.
• RidgeValley’s 13’s Silver went 1-4 Sunday and finished the PSR season 6-18, ranked 100th overall in age group.
• RidgeValley’s 13’s Black went 3-2 Sunday and finished PSR play 11-14, ranked 105th in age group. U-13 teams were part of the U-14 age group in Power League play.
U-12
• RidgeValley’s 12’s, coached by Mount Si assistants Dave Bachman and Cristin Stahlberg, finished the season going 4-0 this past Saturday and closed out 2018’s local schedule 12-4 overall and ranked 17th in the age group.
• Kent Juniors’ 12’s, coached by Mount Si head coach Bonnie Foote and which includes her daughter Isabelle, a fixture at MSHS games, went 2-2 to close out the local season on Saturday and finished 7-9 in PSR play, ranked 13th in the age group.
On tap
With the local play now headed into their postseason at the end of this month, this weekend brings another round of national qualifiers, with local teams set to compete in one of three tournaments. Most of the teams, all representing the Northwest Juniors from Bellevue, will be competing at the Lone Star qualifier down in Dallas. PSVBA’s 17’s will be in Las Vegas at the Red Rock Rave tournament, and another Northwest Juniors team will be competing in Reno at the NoDinx FarWest tournament.
Full coverage on all of those throughout the weekend and a wrap on all that action next week here in the Journal. A congrats to all the teams on a fine season regardless of the end results, and it is hoped that the skills the players all learned this spring will help them succeed this fall in what will be tough high school environments once again for both Mount Si and Cedarcrest High School’s volleyball programs.
This has been your weekly look at local girls’ club volleyball here in the Journal.
Mount Si senior girls athletes sign on dotted line to play college sports this fall
With their parents standing behind each of them, six Mount Si High School senior girls’ athletes signed national letters of intent to attend and play for various colleges this fall, and were recognized for that this morning. L-R: Cross country’s Chloe Cosgrove, soccer players Maggie Gunning and Mia Fowler, volleyball player Emma Anderson, track and field athlete Riley Buckmaster and soccer goalkeeper Renee Anderson. (Photo courtesy Mount Si High School)
Mount Si High School this morning held a ceremony for six senior girls’ athletes who have signed college letters of intent during the current signing period which started last Wednesday, but of course with the school on spring break last week, students were not able to make those decisions official until this week.
Three of the athletes are girls’ soccer players. Goalie Renee Anderson officially inked with Lawrence Technical University in suburban Detroit, MI. LTU plays in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Division II. Forward Mia Fowler inked with southern California’s Chapman University. Chapman, located in Orange County, plays in NCAA Division III’s Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which has seen some other Mount Si grads play their college careers in recent seasons, among them soccer players Alex Censullo on the men’s side at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, and Hailey Kuykendall, with the women’s team at Redlands.
Maggie Gunning was the third soccer player to sign; she will be playing this fall for Northwest University in Kirkland. The NAIA school has on its coaching staff Mount Si alum Jordyn Wilson.
Volleyball player Emma Anderson made her college decision official; we previously reported here she had committed to play for Whitman College in Walla Walla, where her brother, Mount Si grad Collin, just wrapped up his sophomore season for the Blues’ baseball team. The school plays in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference, and has another MSHS alum playing sports there – golfer and former men’s soccer player Jimmy Jacobson.
Track and field athlete Riley Buckmaster has signed to compete next spring for Whitman’s conference rival Pacific Lutheran in Tacoma, and rounding it out, the featured signing of the six who were recognized this morning was distance runner Chloe Cosgrove. Cosgrove was the only NCAA Division I signee of the group today, signing with the University of Montana, which competes in the Big Sky Conference. She has signed to compete for the women’s cross country team, but as those competitors also compete in distance track events in the spring, look for her to also be a part of the Grizzlies’ women’s track and field team next spring.
These six athletes join a strong list of MSHS senior athletes who previously signed, including football players Jesiah Irish (Oregon State) and David Sotelo (Western Oregon) and baseball player Will Scott (Colorado School of Mines).
A congrats to all the athletes on their decisions, and we wish them luck this fall.