Volleyball club team holds tryouts for new members

On Jan. 26, 12 women tried out for the Georgia College women’s volleyball club in an attempt to join the team.

This club has been around since 2004 and has gone through different members and leaders. Junior nursing major and Spanish minor, Diana Dazey has been on the team since the fall of 2008 and has been the president of the club since the spring of 2009.

This semester, freshman pre-nursing major Callan Bennett will be the new president for the club.

Both Dazey and Bennett were very impressed with the amount of girls that showed up for the tryouts. They advertised in many different ways to get information out with flyers, chalk on campus, and e-mail announcements.“Over the past year we really gained a lot of strength and more players and more visibility on campus, so in the past couple of years it has been really coming together,” Dazey said.

Georgia College Assistant Professor of Mass Communication Stephen Price has been the coach and advisor of the volleyball team since fall of 2009. Price met the team at a fundraiser and was surprised that there was a volleyball team on campus.

“This is our first real coach, so we were really excited to get him. We are very lucky.” Dazey said. “He has a lot of experience.”

The volleyball team meets every Wednesdays and Sundays from 5 to 7 p.m. There are currently 15 members, and this number changes throughout the year because the team gains and loses members every semester.

The team has attended several volleyball tournaments in the past.

“A lot of schools have club teams and we basically just e-mail them or we use Facebook and try to get information on when they are having tournaments,” Bennett said. “It is usually just a Saturday, and we play all day.”

Last semester, the volleyball team went to several tournaments at other schools, which include the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech and Clayton State University. Also, they went to the University of Tennessee and Clemson University.

The qualifications to be part of the women’s volleyball club changes every year.

“We are just looking for people that have had experience before,” junior nursing major Hailey Larmour and vice president of the club said. “We want to try and make the team as competitive as possible, so preferable people that have played in high school. Each year it changes; the skill level changes according to the girls that come out.”

One of the team’s main goals is to have a more competitive team than in the past.

Last semester, the team’s hard work was reflected in one of the tournaments at Clayton State, in which it won second place.

“We haven’t had a competitive team in a really long time, and last year we seemed to have some pretty dedicated girls who were dedicated to coming out to practice and working together, and I think that’s what put us in that position,” Larmour said.

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