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Libby Boyles begins her own imprint on Princeton volleyball program · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Libby Boyles begins her own imprint on Princeton volleyball program.
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  Written by Kevin Hieronymous, this article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Camp Libby
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  is officially underway at Princeton High School. New Princeton volleyball
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  head coach Libby Boyles started up her first camp on Monday,
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  greeted by nearly one hundred and twenty energetic girls from
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  grades four to twelve. Campers wouldn't haven't noticed much of
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  a change with Boyles taking over from retired coach Andy Puck,
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  who she played for and coached under. I was just
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  a little bit nervous, said Boyles, who held her first
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  two open gyms last week. There's a lot of girls
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  that you're in charge of, so I didn't want to
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  come in here and change it up too much. We
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  kept the same kind of schedule. We're working on passing
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  one day, setting another day, hitting serving. We've got the
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  same feel here. You could walk into this gym and
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  just feel the energy, and I love that, especially the
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  morning group, the seven thirty to nine thirty, the third,
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  fourth and fifth grade. This gym was alive at seven
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  thirty in the morning. That was awesome to see. I've
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  helped with camps in the past. I know that young crowd.
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  They're the most excited because they don't have volleyball outside
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  of camp. They don't have the experience to get into
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  the gym like the other girls do when it comes
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  to club or open gyms or junior high ball. This
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  is their most exciting part of the summer to come
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  here and work with the older girls as mentors. It's
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  pretty awesome. One twist that Boyles has added is the
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  game Changer award chosen by the coaching staff for each
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  session for the camper going beyond the normal effort. The
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  player picked for the award represents the type of teammate
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  that is truly a game changer to have on the court.
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  Boyle said, one hundred percent effort one hundred percent of
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  the time, not skill based at all like you would
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  normally see awards given for. We wanted to recognize the
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  player that stays engaged and encouraging even when they aren't
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  necessarily the one making the play, celebrating wins, but also
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  picking their teammates up, hustling even when the coach isn't looking.
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  The type of teammate that everyone should strive to be.
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  Monday's game changers were Cora Gutshall grades three five, Evelyn
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  Brown Grades six to eight, and Olivia Sandoval High School
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  Boyle's twenty two said Puck provided some help for summer planning.
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  It felt a little heavy at first. Took a lot
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  of planning. Been thinking about this week for months now,
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  she said. Puck gave me his calendar of the little
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  day by day things I need to check on. We
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  set up a game plan for open gyms, but we
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  try to let them work on what they want to
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  work on. It's their off season going into their summer league.
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  We've got really competitive juniors and seniors also coming up
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  into this varsity program help Boils to get off and running.
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  Having coached many of the PHS girls at the club
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  level and as assistant varsity coach last year, I've coached
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  most of them before. I've had everybody before, except for
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  the sophomore class, she said, I'm not an unfamiliar face
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  to them, which I think is a relief to them,
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  especially for a lot of those incoming juniors and seniors
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  coming into a new varsity program. Change can be scary.
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  I think it's nice to have a familiar face in
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  front of them instead of somebody brand new. Over the
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  course of the summer league and open gyms, Boils wants
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  to figure out the starting lineup and see what her
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  team's strengths and weaknesses may be. That's the best part
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  about summer League, just being able to put together all
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  of those lineups. By the end of the summer. I
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  just want to have an idea where my strengths are,
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  where my weaknesses are, and where we can put our
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  work in at practice to fix those weaknesses and start
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  turning them into strengths. Just overall progression. Seeing my freshmen
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  get comfortable in a new environment. This is really big
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  for them. They're coming in from a school where everybody
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  knew everybody. To now it may not be that case,
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  might be some faces from Malden or PCA, So I'm
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  excited to see them blossom into a good group and
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  then just building my program, building the program I want
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  to see, there's just a lot of change. Acclimating to
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  the change, Boyles said. Puck passed on good coaching advice.
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  He said, there's always the hard parts of coaching, but
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  to never forget the fun parts. She said, Sometimes you
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  get in it for so long. He said that you
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  kind of lose that spark. So just remind yourself every
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  year it's a fresh start. That spark is back. I
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  would just say, remembering the love of the game and
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  keeping my backbone. As a young coach, I'm only a
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  short few years older than a lot of these girls,
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  so it takes a little bit of respect. The joking
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  around and stuff. We do that in practice, but it's
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  also to build a bond with me and the the
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  other coaches and the players. As a young coach, you
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  have to learn how to earn that respect. They say,
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  know when I'm serious and have to raise my voice
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  a little bit or say hey, you need to go
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  get a drink out in the hall.