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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 315 - Volleyball Top 50 Countdown · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is lynnon sophomore fin departure and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Volleyball Top fifty Countdown on the Walk Them Preps
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  Speaker 1: podcast with Tyler and Rylett Go.
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  Speaker 2: Lions Greeting Exam. Welcome into the watchum Preps podcast. This
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  Speaker 2: is episode of three hundred and fifteen the Volleyball Top
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  Speaker 2: fifty Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always
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  Speaker 2: is Tyler Anderson. I've watched them perhaps, Tyler, how we
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  Speaker 2: doing doing great?
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  Speaker 1: Doing great? This is kind of, I don't know, sad
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  Speaker 1: moment last, you know, talking about volleyball. I've had so
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  Speaker 1: much fun watching all season and then counting down now
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  Speaker 1: and this kind of culminates it and we get to
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  Speaker 1: talk about all the players and but you know, the
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  Speaker 1: year wrap around pretty fast. We'll get back to it
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  Speaker 1: in late August there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not to mention a lot of these girls, like
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're going to talk about him in basketball,
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about him in softball, maybe even
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  Speaker 2: in track. I mean, ye, there's still a lot to
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  Speaker 2: talk about for quite a few of these girls here.
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  Speaker 2: So we need to give a thank you to Finley Parcher, who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, we're gonna talk about her a lot
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  Speaker 2: over the next few years. Just a just a sophomore,
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  Speaker 2: so still plenty to talk about with her. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be pretty wild. I mean, there's gonna be one
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  Speaker 2: of those ones where like after the Volleyball Top fifty
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  Speaker 2: her senior year, we're gonna be like foo, We've been talking
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  Speaker 2: about her for a decade, just because it will feel
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  Speaker 2: like that. Tyler. The Volleyball Top fifty Countdown is Bratia Bay,
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  Speaker 2: Apex and Northwest of Volleyball Club Apex Northwest. They utilize
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  Speaker 2: competitive volleyball to develop stronger athletes, nurture well rounded individuals,
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  Speaker 2: and provide resources to pursue a volleyball at the next level.
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  Speaker 2: Visit them online at Apex NW Volleyball Club dot org.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Apex Volleyball Club. They they came on board this
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  Speaker 2: year sponsored everything having to do with well, not everything,
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  Speaker 2: but they were big time in it. I mean we
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  Speaker 2: had a few sponsors and they were a big one,
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  Speaker 2: and they've become a what do you call it, like
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  Speaker 2: a staple, A staple. Yeah, there you go. It's a
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  Speaker 2: way to say it. Of the Welcome preps dot com
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  Speaker 2: website and the podcast too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really cool. I mean, they they kind of
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  Speaker 1: jumped on. I wouldn't say late, but they saw what
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  Speaker 1: was happening, and you know, especially with the stat Leader graphics. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and they were just thought that was so cool and
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  Speaker 1: there was no sponsor for it, so they said, I
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  Speaker 1: got to jump on board. And I remember one of
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  Speaker 1: the members called me or texted me probably at about
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like ten o'clock at night on
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday night, and it was, and we just texted
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  Speaker 1: back and forth and just kind of worked out the
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  Speaker 1: details because I think, you know, they knew that the
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  Speaker 1: next day there would be you know, because I usually
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  Speaker 1: did them on Mondays. Yeah, I put the new graphics out,
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  Speaker 1: so I think they wanted to get on top of
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  Speaker 1: it while they could.
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  Speaker 2: And remember you tell me about this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was kind of late at night, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I was like, we gotta we got
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  Speaker 1: to kind of talk about them too on the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, everything kind of turns out, which it did,
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  Speaker 1: and they jumped on for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Then when there was this opening for the Top fifty Countdown,
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  Speaker 1: they were like, absolutely, We're all over it. So I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's you know, it's pretty cool. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those things. And and and you look at all the
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  Speaker 1: players that play APEX. There's a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: great players from Walkham County High School, players that I
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  Speaker 1: know that that play in that club year around and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. And it's funny too because I talked
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  Speaker 1: to some basketball coaches and they're like, yeah, we you know,
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  Speaker 1: darn Apex took this player and this player. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's funny because it's like, well, I mean, that's just
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  Speaker 1: the way that it is sometimes. But but it's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty cool deal. And they always you know,
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  Speaker 1: get their players off to go play and boys volleyball too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we saw Aldon Jacobs and Braddock Duckworth and
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  Speaker 1: all these players that we knew from football. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: off playing college volleyball, you know. So and it's all
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting that recognition from APEX, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a really cool deal.
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  Speaker 2: There's a there's a girl I know that her mom
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  Speaker 2: is the softball coach at Isakquah High School. She as
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  Speaker 2: a I think she would be a junior this year
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  Speaker 2: made like the team USA Traveling softball team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: her fast pitch team and so she wasn't playing basketball
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  Speaker 2: when I saw Isaqua a few nights ago and I
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  Speaker 2: said instead of the head coach and going, hey, is
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  Speaker 2: she not playing basketball this year? And she goes, well,
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  Speaker 2: she made the traveling team. Blah blah blah. She goes, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we can't blame her. We would probably do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. But sucks for us. She's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: She's like, this sucks for us, but yeap can't blame
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  Speaker 2: her because she's really really good at softball. So Sea like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we got it. So, Tyler, if somebody wants to reach
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  Speaker 2: out to you about sponsorship for anything coming up, lots
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  Speaker 2: of stuff coming up here in the winter were we
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  Speaker 2: talk about it all the time. Now it seems like
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  Speaker 2: the uh still not nobody for the for the daily
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  Speaker 2: recaps for boys and girls basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I assume, yeah, nobody for them. I did get a
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  Speaker 1: message this morning about sponsoring someone sponsored the baseball preview
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  Speaker 1: podcast coming up in the spring already, So it's that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: Was it, Jock Bearden?
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  Speaker 1: No, it was, but uh but yeah, so there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of ways getting getting hold of
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  Speaker 1: me through social media searching for Walking Preps is the
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  Speaker 1: best way and usually I can get it, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: usually I got a lot of things going on, So
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  Speaker 1: just bear with me a little bit and I'll but
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  Speaker 1: I'll definitely get back and we'll get talking and and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get the ball rolling on that. So, and I
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  Speaker 1: know everyone is super busy, you know, holiday season stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, shopping and everything. So but if it's something that,
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  Speaker 1: especially if your company is like is like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can still spend x amount before the calendar year
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  Speaker 1: is up. Ye, this is a really really good way
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  Speaker 1: to do it and support local athletics and especially youth
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  Speaker 1: sports and keep walking Preps going. It Just it's a
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  Speaker 1: win win for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're trying to decide between a new office
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  Speaker 2: chairs or a copy machine from the office, just no,
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  Speaker 2: the heck with that, go sponsor walkom Preps. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the way to Tyler. This is the volleyball Top
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  Speaker 2: fifty Countdown, which means tomorrow is the beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: Top one hundred football Countdown. The first podcast will be
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  Speaker 2: taking place Wednesday, December eighteenth at ten am, so be
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  Speaker 2: sure to subscribe to the Walker Preps podcast wherever you
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  Speaker 2: get your podcasts so you never miss when we post lots,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean lots. I have the schedule right here, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: And any box that is red means when we are recording.
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  Speaker 2: Any box that is green means when a podcast is
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  Speaker 2: being posted. And right now our schedule looks like a
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  Speaker 2: Christmas party. I mean it's unbelievable. It's red and green,
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  Speaker 2: red and green, red and green, I mean all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. So tons and tons and tons of content
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  Speaker 2: coming up. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and
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  Speaker 2: keep your eyes on walk perhaps because Tyler's got it
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  Speaker 2: going on over there, but we are here to talk
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  Speaker 2: Top fifty for volleyball. Tyler. If somebody's hearing this, that
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  Speaker 2: means that the Top fifty as a whole is out,
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  Speaker 2: I mean all fat yeah, which means we're just probably
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  Speaker 2: hours potentially away from football getting started. So we got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to talk about here. We've got fifty names
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  Speaker 2: to talk about, Tyler. What we're gonna do here, I
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  Speaker 2: will name off five and at a time, and then Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: you can just jump through talk about however much, whoever much,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to do, You're gonna talk about them,
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll move on to the next five until
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  Speaker 2: we get to the top five, and then the top
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  Speaker 2: five we will talk about each one of them individually,
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  Speaker 2: kind of similar to the way we do things with football,
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  Speaker 2: except we're doing it all in one podcast. Here gonna
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  Speaker 2: go hopefully a little quicker than maybe we had thought,
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  Speaker 2: but you never know, this could be like a six
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  Speaker 2: hour podcast. So kick your feet up, whipman, you're in
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  Speaker 2: for one. Yeah. Top fifty, Tyler, So let's get right
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  Speaker 2: into it here. At number fifty from Ferndale, it's senior
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  Speaker 2: Olivia Cops, number forty nine Mount Baker, Oh, sorry, from
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  Speaker 2: Mount Baker High School, it's senior Annalie Cohne, number forty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Kniksack Valley Junior Avery Jurgens. Number forty seven is Meridian
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  Speaker 2: junior Kinsley Neil. At number forty six, Mount Baker, Oh, geez,
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  Speaker 2: I'm way off my game. Mount Bigger High School, it's
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  Speaker 2: junior Maddy Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about these five.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness, you and your buttons.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm awful though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah. Olivia Cops of Ferndale
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  Speaker 1: making this list. She made it last year as well.
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  Speaker 1: She was more of a frontline player last year and
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  Speaker 1: because of you know, some new players coming in that
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  Speaker 1: were mostly taller girls, she's kind of she kind of
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  Speaker 1: moved to the back, but she there was there were
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  Speaker 1: moments when I don't know if it was injuries or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, but then she would play up up
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  Speaker 1: front and you know, only five to five, but she's
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  Speaker 1: a great athlete and she could she can definitely do that. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's a great server, amazing leader. Uh and
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  Speaker 1: you know tennis player. I think she's like the student
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  Speaker 1: body president. I remember someone was saying something about her,
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  Speaker 1: and it might have been like the senior send off
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  Speaker 1: or something like that, and they said, she's a she's
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  Speaker 1: a student magnet. Like everybody kind of flocks to her.
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  Speaker 1: And that says a lot about like her attitude and
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  Speaker 1: and just the way she treats other people. So that's
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  Speaker 1: just a really really cool deal. Annelie Cohne from Mount
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  Speaker 1: Baker is just just crazy athlete, I mean, unbelievable athlete.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know she'd be able to play with
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  Speaker 1: her with her shoulder. We talked about that last year
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  Speaker 1: during spring for fast pitch, playing through that shoulder injury,
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  Speaker 1: and I just kind of thought, well, she's probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to play volleyball. She's gonna get ready for fast
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  Speaker 1: pitch again. But she was out there. I asked her
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  Speaker 1: how she was doing. She's she's like, I'm good. Like
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  Speaker 1: she's just very nonchalant, like I'm good. And I thought, wow,
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  Speaker 1: she's she is so tough and and I know mont
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  Speaker 1: Baker struggled this year, but she was constantly out there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if she ever sat down the whole season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if she ever took a break. Every
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  Speaker 1: Jergens from Nuksack Valley the barrow there was Knuksack Valley
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of new pieces to their puzzle from
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  Speaker 1: last year's team that got I believe, sixth in state.
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  Speaker 1: And she stepped right in did a really really good job.
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  Speaker 1: And that's such a tough position to play because you
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  Speaker 1: know you are not only are you probably your best
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  Speaker 1: defensive player, but you have to set up the setter.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have to put the setter in the
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  Speaker 1: right spot to lead to keep things going. So she
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  Speaker 1: did a really good job with that. Kinsley Neil defensive
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  Speaker 1: specialist from Meridian. You know, uh, just she's she's like this,
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  Speaker 1: she's like this tiny you know uh thing of dynamite,
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  Speaker 1: you know it just yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She's she's just this.
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  Speaker 1: She is all over the place and super athletic and
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  Speaker 1: vocal and getting her team going. She's a great basketball player.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of these NIIL girls that have
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  Speaker 1: come through the system at Meridian that have played multiple sports,
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  Speaker 1: and she's kind of the next one three point shooter.
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  Speaker 1: Really glad to see her to be coming back next
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  Speaker 1: year as well, because that Meridian team just keeps it
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  Speaker 1: seems to keep just kind of producing all these great
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  Speaker 1: volleyball players. And then Mattie Lewis from Mount Baker. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there were there were matches where she would lead
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  Speaker 1: in like every single statistical category listed as a middle
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  Speaker 1: But she's all over the place. I mean, she's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she's the best overall player. She's a great server, great
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  Speaker 1: timing on jumping and blocking shots, a powerful player, very
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  Speaker 1: very powerful player, and but but athletic too and can
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  Speaker 1: just run around and get everything. And and there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a lot put on her shoulders next year, but
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  Speaker 1: I think she'll be able to handle it because I
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  Speaker 1: think my Baker's just gonna they had, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: just have to keep improving and and they're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: as far as she takes him. And she's a really
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  Speaker 1: really good player. Oh and Mattie Lewis also uh, one
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  Speaker 1: of the big time culprits of Walking Prep Spotted. I
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  Speaker 1: think that she's probably taken more pictures of me than
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  Speaker 1: most people, so she's she's very sneaky too. She there
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  Speaker 1: was the last one, you know, Walking Prep spot has
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  Speaker 1: sent me a picture and it was at a Seahome
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  Speaker 1: Marysville Pilchuck basketball game. And I'm like, who took that one?
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  Speaker 1: And I got the reply I got was Mattie Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, she's so sneaky. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what she was doing at the game, but but
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  Speaker 1: she got she was spotting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was spotting, clearly that's what she was doing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no, no offense to Maddie, but let's let's
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  Speaker 2: just be honest here. Tyler. As good as she is
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  Speaker 2: as a volleyball player, her biggest contribution to the county
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  Speaker 2: is walking Prep Spotted pictures.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know she She's gotten me a
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  Speaker 1: few times.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler at number forty five from Bellingham. It's Junior Olivia
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  Speaker 2: Simanowski number forty four from Ferndale senior, Amilie McKeon at
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  Speaker 2: forty three, Squalkam junior archer Burns. That's a really cool name,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Number forty two see home sophomore page.
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  Speaker 2: Floory the first sophomore on the list here, and we've
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  Speaker 2: followed up with another sophomore here. It's at number forty one.
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  Speaker 2: It's from Blaine sophomore Teya Dubey Tyler. So tell me
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  Speaker 2: about these five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, three middles right off the bat. So you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about big time defensive players here, Olivia Simanowski. I think
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  Speaker 1: that she's one of those players that when you watch,
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  Speaker 1: you go. I think she's got a lot of potential
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  Speaker 1: to be even better. I think if she played with
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  Speaker 1: more confidence, she could really dominate. She's she's a great,
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  Speaker 1: great player that there are you see sparks here and
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  Speaker 1: there of like whoa, that was intense and I and
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  Speaker 1: I and just a really you know, a powerful player
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  Speaker 1: at the net, five foot ten and loved by her teammates,
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  Speaker 1: which is always cool to see. Emily McKeon from Ferndale Senior.
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  Speaker 1: She battled some injuries this year. There was you know,
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  Speaker 1: there was times when she wasn't able to play or
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  Speaker 1: she was able to play kind of sparingly, and that
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  Speaker 1: was really tough because she's she's a better player than
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  Speaker 1: number forty four on the list. I think she was
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  Speaker 1: ranked I don't know, she might have been in the
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  Speaker 1: thirties or twenties last year. So but because of injuries
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, it kind of knocked her down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Still had a pretty good year. There's
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  Speaker 1: moments when she's she's one of those crazy leapers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: most middles are about five ten five eleven are taller.
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  Speaker 1: She's only five eight and but just super athletic. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean there was I think there was a week
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  Speaker 1: as her junior year when she was defensive Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Week. But she was able to come back at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year and play strong, and that's
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  Speaker 1: awesome to see for a senior Archer Burns player. That
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  Speaker 1: kind of, in my mind, I think kind of came
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere. I wouldn't I wouldn't have expected her
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  Speaker 1: to be on this list when the season started. I
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  Speaker 1: think she made a huge improvement from sophomore to junior year.
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  Speaker 1: Another middle and in middle that serves you don't see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of middles that serve a lot, which is
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  Speaker 1: which is great because it allows you to stay in
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  Speaker 1: the rotation quite a bit. And yeah, she had a
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  Speaker 1: really good, you know, improving year. I guess I would say, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and Squalkum had you know a lot of like five
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  Speaker 1: set matches and stuff like that. And and I think
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  Speaker 1: she was second on the team and kills, and she
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  Speaker 1: led the team in blocks and and uh. And it's
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  Speaker 1: cool because she's just a junior too, So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of this team comes back for the Storm and she'll
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  Speaker 1: be a huge part of it. Page Floory.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Last year as a freshman, she was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: serving specialist. She would come in and serve, play a
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  Speaker 1: little in the back round and then she'd be gaunt,
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  Speaker 1: should be out of there. But this year she was
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  Speaker 1: kind of starting the year that way. But then she
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  Speaker 1: ended up playing a lot more, especially during the end
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  Speaker 1: of the years. They were keeping her in longer, which
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  Speaker 1: tells me a lot because you know, they were deep
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs playing against huge teams. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: defeated Linden, they knocked Linden out of the district tournament,
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  Speaker 1: so I mean they were they had a really, really,
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  Speaker 1: really strong team, and she became a bigger part of
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  Speaker 1: it as the season wore on. I think she's super
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  Speaker 1: athletic too. She's gonna be a big time force in
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  Speaker 1: the future. Page Floory just really really good athlete that
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: see how high school and then Taya do Bay, Yeah,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: crazy athlete two went to state in the high jump
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: as a freshman. She was one of the baseball players
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: that did not turn out this year. I think she's
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: doing it because she's focusing on volleyball and you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: only a couple blame players on this list, but a
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: couple of really good ones, and she's one of them. Again.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Super athletic and already pretty tall at five nine, but
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: oh we have had the leaping ability to go even
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: higher and she could still be growing too. So she is.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: She's one of those ones that you look to the
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: future and go there's a ton of potential there. Very
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: athletic family. Older sister Daja's playing college basketball right now,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: so I expect some big, big things out of her
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: in the next few years as well.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: All right, Tyler at number forty from Bellingham. It's junior
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Jada Kannutson number thirty nine from Squalacum sophomore, Penelope Durius
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: at number thirty eight. Seahome junior on your winter number
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: thirty seven Bellingham freshman. A name that I really like,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Sonoma Smith at number thirty six from Nuksack Valley junior,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Gracie Rutgers Tyler tell me about these five.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jada Knutson to Bellingham. If you're just looking at overall,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: like there's no flaws to her game, you know she
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: can do She's great at the net. I think she
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: was like she was probably I think like fourth and kills,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: but then she was second in digs, so you're going
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: offense and defense there, third on the team in aces,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: so she can serve as well.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Just really quiet kid and one of the few that
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is that is not on Instagram, so every time I
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: post leaders and stuff like that, I'm never able to
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: tag her, So I always feel kind of bad about that,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Like I'm like, oh man, unless she has a handle
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: that I just don't know about. But but really really
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: good athlete. Great, you know, I think she throws the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: javelin and does high jump and all sorts of things
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: in track and fields, so uh yeah, really really impressive athlete.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Always watch watching her play. Her nickname on the team
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: is Boom or that's what the PA announcer called her,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Jada Boom Canuts. And because she's she's got some power
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to her game. Penelope Durius another Squalicum player that I
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: did not know much about coming into this year because
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think she even played varsity that much as
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a freshman, and came into this year and as the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: season again, as the season war on, just became more
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and more a bigger part of the team. Uh third
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: on the team, and Hills and fourth on the team,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and Digs had like nineteen aces as well. So again
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: one of those players that can kind of do a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: little bit of everything. But there was never any drop off,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you know, there was never part of the season where
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: it was like, oh man, she's struggling, because a lot
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: of first year varsity players that kind of happens too.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: They sort of hit a wall every once in a while.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And she was always putting up numbers and again five
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: nine sophomore, big time future there. Anya Winter. There's a
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I think there's more Seahome players on this list than
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: any other on it than any other team. She played
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: quite a bit, but she was kind of in and out,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in and out a little bit, A very very strong player.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: She's going to be relied upon heavily next year because
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: SEAOM has two amazing seniors that played that play that
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: middle position and they're with them both graduating. She's going
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to step in there next year. And and but it's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: great because she has the ability to step right in
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and they don't have to search for somebody or train somebody.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: She can take over that spot. Great defensive player with
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: some power. Sonoma Smith from Bellingham, My goodness, there's times
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: during warm ups where it's like whoa, Like she just
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: jumps out of the gym. She's she has those springs.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Does not play like a freshman, super duper athletic. I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: don't know if she plays any other sports. I hope
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: she does, because I mean, I'd love to see her
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and in track and field. I love to say her
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: play basketball, but she doesn't play basketball, probably playing you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: club volleyball, probably for APEX. But but I was I
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was told that, you know, there's some athletes that you're
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: told about before you ever see them, and she was
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: one of them. And and she is she is everything
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: that people said. I mean, she is super athletic kind
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of makes it look easy, you know, it just looks like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you know, she belongs out there and and and can
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: take over a match at times. Grace Gracie Rutgers Nukzack
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Valley that one of the taller teams in Walkin County,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: especially in the one a level six feet tall outside
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: hitter and a pretty good server as well, So again
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: it's nice to be able to stay on the floor
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: quite a bit. She had one hundred and thirty digs
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: on the year, which was third on the team. She
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: had thirty aces, which was also third on the team.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: She neared one hundred kills, which was third on the team.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: So again, all the different levels there doing different doing
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: things and being able to stay on the court was
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: a huge benefit for the Pioneers this year.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: First, that's our Tertiary Tyler at number thirty five. It's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Meridian junior, Taya Benson number thirty four, Lynnen Christian junior
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: eded a young number thirty three from Lynn Christian, also
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: a junior, Elie Meyer number thirty two from Nuksack Valley,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: a junior. I mean, we got all kinds of juniors
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: here in a row. Peyton Bartell and then that number
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: thirty one from Lyndon sophomore Lexi herman Itz Tyler. Tell
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: me about these girls.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really pretty athletic group. Taya Benson from Meridian. I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: saw her play last year as a sophomore, and she
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: would come in a little bit and and go back
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and sit down, and come in a little bit and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: go back and sit down and and and I thought, wow,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: there's there's there's a lot of room for improvement there
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: because at five foot ten, there's you know, she could
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: she could, she could dominate. But again, and one of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: those players that I could look at and just go,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I think she needs to play with more confidence because
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: she has the ability. And their team this year was
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: basically the exact same team. They were only graduated one
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: player and they brought in a freshman to basically take
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that spot, so it's kind of the same look. So
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I thought, well, she might not play very much, but
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: she played a ton. She started. She was awesome. One
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: of the most improved players I saw all year. At
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the state tournament, she was fantastic. So I love to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: see that improvement because you know, it's just gonna keep
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: keep going. So really really excited about her future. I'm
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: watching her play basketball right now. She starts at center
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: on the basketball team. So really really cool deal. I
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: love them with these multi sport athletes. It's just so
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: fun to see them in different you know, different ways,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and see them at different sports and you know, different
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: disciplines and stuff like that. Edit to Young from Lyndon Christian,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I mean all it seems like all these Lennen Christian girls,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: not that they blend together, but they're just so crazy athletic.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: She can really fly out there on the outside hitter
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: already five to eleven and a sneaky five eleven. Like
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: you know, if you if you watched a bunch of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Lenden Christian games, you would go, she's five eleven because
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: she's playing next to girls that are six one, six
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: two and and but she's tall. She can jump. Really
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: really impressed me at the state tournament as well. I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: think another one that kind of has the season war
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: on Uh. She just kind of kind of got better
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and better. And Lennen Christian they really spread it around
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: as far as offense, like who's going to get the kill?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: She did lead the team in kills with the you know,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: close to two hundred of them but yeah, and a
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: good defensive player too, over twenty blocks, so really really
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: fun to watch at the net. Ellie Meyer, also from
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian. Not many defensive specialists make the list. I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: think only two did, and she's she was the highest
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: ranked one. But very very athletic. I believe the sister
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: of Tommy Meyer, who was an All league center at
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Lennon Christian, former backup quarterback. Almost positive, but Ellie Meyer
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: really good at serving defense. Probably has the ability to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: play up front, but there's just so many players that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: are near six foot or taller for Lindon Christian that
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: she's allowed to play back and give that team a
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: boost and has spread the wealth a little bit. Had
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a really really good state tournament as well, led them
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to a seventh place finish. Peyton Bartle from Nuokxack Valley
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: one of the few lefties I always watched watch playing watch.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I always like watching left handed volleyball players, especially when
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: they serve, because it's, you know, it's just something about
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it that's different, Like watching a lefty shoot a lefty hit,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: like watching Will Clark swing a bat. You know, it's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: just looks different. But she's a very she was a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: very very good server. I mean, she was one of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: those ones that can just bloop it right over the net,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: you know somehow like I don't know how they do that,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: or she could place it wherever she wanted. But then
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: being a setter too, I mean this is HER's her
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: third year starting at setter and and leading that offense
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: around and and putting everyone in the right spot and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: super athletic. And she had a couple of you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: six one six to two girls to give it to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and to really you know, put that put that force down.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And and you know, she's compete She's a you know,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: she plays all three sports. She's volleyball, basketball, and fast pitch.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: You know, she's a guard on the basketball team, pitcher
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: on the fast pitch team. She's used to state tournaments,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: she's won state championships, is for different sports, and and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: just a great overall athlete and uh just you know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: really really fun to watch and and the way she
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: leads her team is just is awesome. I love watching that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Lexi hermanuts just just a sophomore at five ten, but
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: plays in the middle, extreme jumping ability and timing. We've
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: been watched, I've already been seen that on the basketball
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: court that first game. Shit, she was one that had
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: four blocks in like five minutes or whatever it was.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: And she's a guard, so like they're all on the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: outside like taking jump shots, She's like, nope, boom and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and it it kind of goes to her volleyball playing
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: like that. It's like from that she brings that to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: her basketball game. It's either that or she's been playing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: basketball longer and she's brought that talent to play the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: middle blocker there for Linden, so really really cool, you know,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: multiple sport athlete again. And she's hilarious, like, you know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I'm taking headshots over and the last I kind of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: do like six pictures for each headshot and by the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: time I'm taking the last couple, she's making faces and stuff.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And you know, I showed it to her and her
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: teammates and they're like, you should use that one, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: she's like, no, I just love that kind of stuff
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: when they can relax and have fun. You know, I
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: want people to not be you know, not you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I don't want them to loosen up when they're around me.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: It's it's totally cool. I'm a goofball. You can be
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a goofball too, and and so that that was a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. It'll be fun watching her play these
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: multiple sports over the next few years.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, Tyler, just some of the shorts you wears
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: should give that away.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I think people know that I'm a goofball.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty easily.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. At number thirty Tyler from lynnon Christian Sophomorelilah Pereira,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: number twenty nine from Seahome senior Matty Barons, number twenty
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: eight from Ferndale sophomore Svet Sevet Lota Bedeck. At number
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: twenty seven from Lynn and Christian, it's sophomore Joscelyn Scheiss
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and from Squalkum at number twenty six is junior Jolie
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Paz Tyler. Let's talk about these five.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of Pereira. U. You know, she was
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: put into the libero spot this year. Last year as
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a freshman, she played a little bit. She was one
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of those players that would come in and serve. She'd
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: have some good moments serving and play a little defense
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and that that was it. And she was thrown into
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the libero spot this year and right away, first week
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: she was a defensive Player of the Week. There were
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: some struggles kind of midway through the year, and but
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: she cleaned all that stuff and you know, they finished
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: really really strong. I mean that that's Libero spot is
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: so tough. You know, I talked about it earlier with
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Avery Jurgens, and it's just you know, not that you
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: have the target on you, but you are wearing the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: different color jersey and you know, very very athletic, really
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: good server too, and yeah, you know, it's it's good
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that they found that that spot, that that person that
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: could be in that spot for the next few years.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Just a sophomore. Maddy Barons from Seaholme another one of
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: those players that doesn't have Instagram, So I always feel
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: bad when she's leading in blocks or something and I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: can't I can't put I can't tag her in it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: But she's a really fun player to watch. I mean,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: she's a she's an offensive mid middle like it's it's
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: impressive and you know, like I'm trying to I was
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: trying to explain it, but like when she goes up
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: for a kill, she does like the scissor kick, Like
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: she looks like the Air Jordan logo when she goes
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: up for the kill, which is like, yeah, this the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: lug exactly, and it is, Uh, it's impressive. And I'm
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I I love taking pictures at Sea home games because
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I'm always trying to get a great shot of that. Now,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not really good at taking pictures and and they're
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: kind of they're kind of kind of fuzzy and stuff
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: like that, but I was always trying for at least
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: a few of those every single time. And holy cow,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: she's she would she would do that, but she could
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: do it the same way and you never know which
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: way she was hitting it. She was very strategic in
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: where she was placing her kills and she's definitely gonna
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: be missed. One of those big scene, big time senior
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: middle for See Home. Svetlana Badek for Ferndale sophomore, six
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: feet tall, kind of came out of nowhere. I don't
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: know where she was last year, if she was on
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: JV or if she just you know, grew a few
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: inches or something, but she came right on the scene
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: and dominated right away. Uh. Awesome to see another player
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that there's these moments where you go, WHOA If she
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: does that every time, She's like a top ten player.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: But then she'll have you know, a few airs here
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and there and stuff like that, and you're like, well,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: she's she's you know, she's a sophomore. She's you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: if she once she gets it kind of ratcheted up,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna you know, the sky's the limit
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: for her, a player like that, a six foot sophomore
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that could really really jump. So I'm excited about her future.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Ferndale's Ferndal's got some good youth on that team that's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: gonna help them for the future because I you know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I really like how the way that they're headed right now.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Jocelynette es Ice from Lenny Christian Blocker extraordinaire. Uh, six
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: foot two sophomore, Uh, you know, just just unbelievable, you
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: know in the middle.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: You know, I think she had over fifty blocks on
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the year. There was for most of the year she
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: was or not, I shouldn't say most, but there was
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a big chunk of the year where she was leading
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the county and blocks and she kind of kind of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: shares it with Ali Wright on the team, so she's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: not in there as much, but but when she's in there,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: she's a big time presence at the net. Like I said,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: six one, six two, just a sophomore. Uh, pretty scary
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to see what she's gonna do the next few years.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Jolie Paz. I mean we've talked about her athleticism, especially
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: during track. She plays basketball. You know up here this year.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, I know down
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: there it's been happening for a little longer, but they're
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: doing girls flag football up here just for the three
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: city schools and Ferndoz.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Boffel won the state championship last year.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Time, well there you go. So they're starting it this
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: year just with the three city schools and Ferndale. And
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: when I heard about it, the first person I thought
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of was Jolie Paz. I was like, she would be amazing. Yeah,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I mean she went she went to state as a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: hurdler and as a shot put at the shot put,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I mean she is. She's one of those crazy athletes
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: that like and she's a five to five outside hitter,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Like her vertical leap is off the charts, and she's
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: just one of those Like she plays basketball just because
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: she's athletic. I don't think she's she would say she's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: a basketball player, but you know, unfortunately she's playing basketball,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: so she's not going to be playing flag football this year.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: And I think I think she would be like the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: MVP of the league. That's it's she's that kind of talent,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you know it. And it's so fun to watch her
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: play volleyball. She was Offensive Player of the Week halfway
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: through the season this past year, and holy cow, there
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: are there are moments there as well where it's like
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I was taking like the video, like the hype video
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: or whatever. It was like I go to every practice,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I'm taking video and I'm standing kind of on her
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: side and I don't realize it and she gets set
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: up for a kill and it's like right in front
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: of the camera where she just jumps. It looks like
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: she like jumps over me almost. It's like, holy cow.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: And I love watching those players that are like my
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: height but can jump like you know, I have like
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: a vertical over thirty inches or something. It's just crazy
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to watch. So yeah, very fun player to watch. It
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: still has another year for all these sports.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: It's awesome. Well, Tyler, we are halfway there at number
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: twenty five. Ferndale Senior Ley Williams Number twenty four Meridian
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: junior Gracie papp At number twenty three Squalkum sophomore Bronwin Jones.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Number twenty two is Bellingham junior Mary Lockhart, and number
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: twenty one is Lyndon senior Cameron Hermonuts.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ley Williams from Ferndale almost made the list last year, definitely,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you know, right in the smack dab in the middle
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of it. This year, super powerful pin hitter on the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: outside for Ferndale on the right side, has an amazing
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: shot where she she will do that cross court kill,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you know, and you can see it coming and it's like,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think players want to even get in the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: way of that. And that was kind of her trademark.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: She was a lot more consistent this year, blocked a
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: few more shots this year with her and McKeon together,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: her and Lensen together, kind of whoever would be in
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the middle of that at that point. And yeah, it
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: is a tough player to replace next year. It's probably
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: gonna be the toughest to replace for Ferndale. But man,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: what a what a what a player, and what an
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: improvement from last year. Even though she was a good
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: player last year, she really skyrocketed this past year, Gracie
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: pat from Meridian one of those players I'm like, I
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: can't believe she's just a junior. Seems like we've been
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: talking about her forever because she's, you know, great in
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: track and stuff like that. But another left handed player
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: which is fun to watch. But she he's the master
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: of And this happens a lot where there's like a
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to call it, like
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty ball that's like coming down right
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: at the net. She dominates those. She will just come
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: up and she's got this ability to just hang in
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the air, which seems like for three seconds or something
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: like that, and she'll just time it just right where
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: she just hangs in there and hits it like straight down.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, I don't there's not many I've seen it
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: happen here and there, but nobody does it as consistently
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: as she does. Great great defensive player. Her hitting percentage,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: which I you know, I don't know how much you
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: know about that, but you know it's you can if
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: you have a hitting percentage of like over three hundred,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that's pretty darn good. There were there were mattress where
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: she would be like seven, eight hundred and so she's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: super efficient with her offensive game while being a defensive player.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Bronwyn Jones from Squalkum, there was a change that was
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: made a few weeks into the season where she she
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: was kind of she was kind of all over the place.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, she could only at five three, but she
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: could be like an outside hitter, defensive specialists, kind of wherever.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: And she got switched to Liberro and that really kind
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: of up Squalkum's game as a whole. And you know,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I ever ranked as the highest rated player for the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: on the team, just a sophomore just you know, good,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: really good serving as well. So she's just a great
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: overall player that could probably play some other spots if needed.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: But they locked her in there. Uh it was a
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: great move. It really, like I said, improved their team.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: She's a fantastic player that uh probably I kind of
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: felt like was underrated, underappreciated, I don't know around the conference.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: You know, she wasn't like All conference first or second team,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: so I was, you know, I wanted to put her
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: kind of where she deserved to be on this list.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Mary Lockhart the highest ranked player I have for Bellingham.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Uh five to eleven middle. Really really talented. You know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I believe her mom played college volleyball. She's a great
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: basketball player as well. She's you know, she's got that
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: potential again to be you know, you're looking at potential
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: like a top ten player next year in in the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: in the county. You know, her nickname on belly Am
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: for the p announcer is the Wall. She just blocks everything.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think she's a huge Pink Floyd fan. Yeah,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: but I think it's because she's a defensive player but
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: really good at serving too offensive force. She's like a
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: hammer man. She's just she's it's all. It's all power
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and great great timing as well. Cameron Hermanut's at Lyndon
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the lone senior on the team. A little undersized for
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: her spot, which is crazy to say for Linden, but
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the athletic ability makes up for it. Really good defensively
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: when she's in the back line, I mean when she can,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: she can. She she would have a ton of digs
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: and usually you know your libero has the most digs.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: But there were times when she would lead the team.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Really really good player, you know, like I said, kind
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: of undersized for her position, as a as a pin,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: but she can really jump and crazy that she was
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the only senior on the team. And I don't think
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I realized it till like three or four weeks into
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: the season that she was the only senior on that team.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: And you know, I felt really bad for her. I
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: was at that match when Lindon season came to an end,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and you know, I, you know, girls sports, I just
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I hate it. You know, when they when the season
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: comes to end, they get so emotional about it. I
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: just it makes me want to cry. And I just,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just glad that she had a really
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: good career and and just a really really solid player
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: for the Lions.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: At number twenty from Meridian, it's senior Grace Wells. Number
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: nineteen Seahome junior Bridget Adams. Number eighteen is Meridian sophomore
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Eden Bernardi. Number seventeen Lyndon freshman is the Stefan and
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: number sixteen Seehome senior Leah Lockwood. Tyler. Tell me about
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I recognize all these names at this point, so we're
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: we're getting into the thick of it here. Yeah.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Grace Wells, senior setter at Meridian. You know, I've
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: both really been covering you know, volleyball for two full years.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I mean I've done it kind of sparingly the last
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: six years, but the last two years I've really really,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: you know, watched a ton and you know, total all
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the stats and everything and really paid attention and that
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: she's been one of those staples at Meridian. I mean,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: she's just one of those players that never leaves the floor.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Good server, which you know, allows you to never leave
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the floor. You're gonna have to serve too, and you know,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: a shorter player, but you don't have to be super
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: tall to be a setter. I mean, it helps because
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: you're up front a lot on defense. But and she
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: would get a block every once in a while, and
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: it was just the coolest thing because all her teammates
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: would crowd around her and you can't find her anywhere.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: She's only five foot two, but but just really really
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: good leader sets up her teammates so well. I mean,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the last two years, her her outside hit her she's
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: had the house, she's had the outside hitter that led
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the county and kills per set. And I tell you what,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how good you are if you don't
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: have a good setter, then you're not gonna lead in
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: that category period and and so that's gonna be the biggest, toughest,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: you know, player to to replace next year. I know
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: they have a player Sam Sam Casea that will take
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: over that setter spot next year. And and I'm sure
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: she could do it. It's just big time shoes to fill.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Grace Wells great great player. Uh Bridget Adams from Seahome,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: super duper athletic. I believe she's a beach vallvolleyball player.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I think she grew up here and then last year
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: she was in California and then she moved back, and
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I think she's the player that and I always, you know,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I think she's I don't know if she's verbally committed
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: or if she's or however you want to say it,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: but I think she's gonna go do beach volleyball in college.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: So it's it's cool because a lot of times when
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: she would serve, she would like spin the ball a
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: little bit on her finger, And I always think a
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: top gun on the beach volleyball save when he's spinning
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the ball. I was like, is that is it? Every
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: beach volleyball players? They spin them, you know, who knows.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: But but she kind of joined this loaded team, you
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: know with Seom that had a bunch of great outside
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: hitters and she just was another one of those players
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: that could float in the air and just crush it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of fun to watch. And yeah, just yeah,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: there's some stuff that she's gone through, you know, with that,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: you know, dealing with law and her family and stuff
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: like that that I've found out about at Senior Night
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: or not not not Senior night, but you know, just
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: different things like that. And I just was, I was
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: moved to tears because wow, just what a what a
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: what a warrior. And I'd love watching her play and
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I'm glad she's gonna be around for another year. Eden
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Bernardi will go through a wall to get a volleyball.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: She is.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I went to practice, you know, I went to all
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: the practices and she's running around. She's she will crush
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: right through you. She is a physical player. She plays
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: basketball that way, you know, defensive specialists. But then she'll
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: go off for twenty points. She's she is a great,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: great athlete. I mean, you know, if I had to
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: put my money on who the best server is in
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Walking County, it's probably her, you know, just can can
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: can torqu her body when she serves a certain way
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: that she can really hit it great every time and
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: she rarely hasn't a service air awesome outside hitter, only
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: five seven but plays a lot taller. Just one of
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: those athletes that is like, you know, you could tell
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: that she just loves sports, like loves athletics, like you
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: could end competitive like you you know, you could want
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: to do any sports. She'd be like, yeah, I'll do
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: it and I'll beat you. Like you could just see
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: that drive in her which is so cool to see.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Uh is he Stefan from Linden, Just a freshman, huge
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: shoes to fill, you know, taking over for Grace Rice,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: who was the number one player on this list last year.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't know who's gonna come in and be the
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: center on this team. All of a sudden they bring
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: in a freshman. She did awesome. She is She's gonna
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: she has the potential to be the number one player
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: you soon, because she's just she is that kind of player.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know how Linden, you know, has these has
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: these players that come up that don that show what
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: they can do so quickly and so well. And sometimes
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: girls sports are like that. I mean, girls develop faster
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: than guys. And you see that, you see freshmen that
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: can compete right away in different sports, whether it be
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: volleyball or basketball or track and field or fast pitch
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and so I guess I shouldn't be surprised,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: but it is just still surprising when I see it,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: because you know, especially if I've never heard of a
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: player and they come in and just go they just
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: blow me away, which is exactly what Izzy did. And
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: I even said it in the preview. I was like,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: she's got big shoes to fill. I see on the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: roster that she's the only setter. I'm like, so, I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: guess she's the setter. Like that's all I know, you know,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: And then she comes out and does awesome. So that
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: was really cool to see Leah Lockwood or as they
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: call her Leah Blockwood. I think she ended up leading
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the county in blocks. She's that other Seahome middle that's
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: going to be really tough to replace. I mean, on
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: your winner is really good. I mean, they're lucky that
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: they have her coming back. But Leah Lockwood is as
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: special as a defensive player. I mean I you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I don't do like a defensive Player of the Year,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: but she would be in the running. She'd be where
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: people could vote on. She's that kind of talent. Six
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: feet tall, just shut down at the net. Unbelievable to watch.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: One second, Tyler. Oh yeah, never mind, I was wrong. Well,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I thought I had something. At number fifteen, Tyler Blaine senior,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Caitlin Harrington at number fourteen, Lyndon Christian Junior, Alley right,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: number thirteen, Lyndon Junior, Campbell the Young at number twelve,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Seaholme junior, Hayden Nevydomski got it right. And at number
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: eleven is Nooksack Valley junior, Grace the Hoague. Let's hear
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: about these five, Tyler.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Well, three of these five or six foot two, And
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: this is where I can really really come into to
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: help you. Kayln Harrington listed six to three on the roster.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: But I'm going with six foot two. I mean, once
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: you're over six feet everyone's tall to me. But so
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: what do I know?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: But uh, they'll get a little further away from you,
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: and it gets a little harder to really tell with
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: the depth perception.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah right, Kaylan Harrington. Last year was kind of split
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: time as a setter, which was crazy. I mean, I
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: don't know, it wasn't crazy. Setter might be the most
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: important position on your team. But you know, she's six
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: to two.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: That's a pretty tall setter from what I've seen.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's like it's like use that offensive force.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: But new coach came in this this year, moved her
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: to outside hit her and she was she was dominant,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: and you know her and her and Taya Dubay, I
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: mean those were the two plain players that you really
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: had to watch out for. And especially Harrington. I mean
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: she just she could. She could bring it. Highest ranked
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: border right player and a force. I mean she was
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: all over the course. She was great defensively too, and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: she she could have led. I think she may have
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: led the team in well, she definitely led in kills,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: but she led also in digs and in aces. So
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I mean you talk about she had one hundred and
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: seventy nine kills, two hundred and sixty one digs, and
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: forty three aces. That is insane.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: It's a pretty well rounded player right there.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit of everything. And I she's a player.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know if she's playing in college anywhere. But
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: she's a player that would you know, attract some interest
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: because of you know, just her height and her overall ability.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Very very athletic, and yeah, we'll have to see Ali
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Wright from Lenny Christian also six foot two middle, just
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: a junior. You know. When she gave us the intro
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: a while back, I remember saying that she's one of
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: those ones that's like, like like one of the best
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: college prospects that I've seen as far as just someone
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: that you know, you could look at and go, there's
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: a gem right there. She could be a really big
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: time player. So I wouldn't be surprised if she's drawing
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of college interests. She's just a junior, but
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: very very vocal when she gets in there, leads by
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: example and and can dominate the middle as well, big
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: time you know, wingspan, super athletic, you know, and she's
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: got a great serve too. She doesn't serve a ton,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: but when I've seen her serve, you know, she just
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: kind of stands there and hits it. There's no run up,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: there's no jump, there's nothing, and and I thought, well,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: that's I wonder what she's doing to the ball. And
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I sat behind her once and she like hits it
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: on the right side and it would just spin. It
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: was almost like it's almost like she's hitting a slider,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and which was really really cool to see.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, that's why it's hard to return.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: So you know, she can do a lot of stuff
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: with the ball. Campbell DeYoung is not six foot two.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: She is five foot two. But she is just uber athletic.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: You know, We've talked a ton about her in fast pitch,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: and you know, she's she's the Ricky Henderson of walkin
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: County fast pitch. I mean, she is a she has
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: a leadoff hitter that will get on steal all the bases,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: or she'll hit a home run. You know, that's basically
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: what Ricky Anderson did. And she and this year she
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: took over at le Berro for maya vander Yacht who
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: went to Central and I thought, you know, and I
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: had never seen her play volleyball. I knew, I knew
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: she was on the varsity last year, but she played
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: a very little bit and and I just thought, well,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: if anyone's going to do it, I wouldn't be surprised
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: if she's going to be great at it. I had
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: never seen her play, and she was awesome. I mean,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: just and another one of those players all like Eden
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Bernardi that will go through r a wall to get
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: the volleyball. I mean there were times where I sat
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: like diving into the coaches chairs and stuff like that,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: and the coaches are like, they're like laughing because they
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: just know that's the kind of athlete she is and
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: that kind of competitors that that she is. Like other
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: players would do that, they'd be look, look a concern,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: you know, but with her, it's like, no, no, that's
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: just Campbell. She's just she's just that kind of player
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: and and that's what we love about her. And she's
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. Hayden Nevadomski from Sea Home.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, super, super athletic, great, great serve, dominant outside
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: hit her. I thought there was there were times in
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the you know, it seems like she played her best
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: against the best, And I really love that about certain
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: players when they up their game. You know, you see
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: her have her biggest stats against the Archbishop Murphy's or
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the Linden's or you know whoever. I mean, that's that
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: tells me a lot that tells me that, you know,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: probably what's happened is other players just can't get the
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: job done. So we're just gonna feed Hayden over and
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: over again. And she's she welcomes the challenge. You know,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: a player that is just you know, off the charts
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: athletic ability, like I said, and I think she even
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: grew a couple of inches from last year, from like
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: five eight to five ten. Super super dominant on a great,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: great team. Grace de Hoogue from from Nukxack Valley, another
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: six foot two player, awesome basketball player, plays first base
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: on the fast pitch team. So you got another one
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: of those three sport athletes that can do a lot
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: of everything. But man, talk about the hammer. There are
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: few players in Walkin County that have the force on
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: a kill that Grace de Hoogue has a lot. I mean,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: that is just awesome to see. But a very very
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: good defensive player. When she's in the back row too,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: which is at six foot two, to be able to
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: get down and dig a ball out is gotta be tough.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine being six too. I can't
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: imagine being five to eight. But for her to be
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: able to do that and do it with ease. It's
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: just like my goodness. Like I it's hard. Like if
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I were to say, like, what's her specialty sport? I
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: think I would have thought it was basketball, But after
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: watching volleyball again for this next year and seeing her improvement,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: it might be volleyball. I mean she went off for
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: eighteen and eighteen and opening game against Sultan and for
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: basketball points and rebounds. You know that tows you how
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: good of a basketball player she is. But man, she's
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: so good at volleyball. So just a great overall athlete.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Grace Dahoague you know another you know Noksack Valley, they
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: didn't have any seniors. They're returning their whole team and
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: she's gonna be a huge part of it.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Well, Tyler, we are into the top ten and with
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: that we have Ferndale junior Katrina Ferry, number nine, Nuksack
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Valley sophomore Elizabeth de Lange. Number eight is Lyndon junior
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Ryan Stephen, number seven is Seahome senior Emmy Lee, and
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: at number six it's Lynnon Christian junior Ella Fritz Tyler,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: give me a little bit about each of these five.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Katrina Ferry at Ferndale, you know, one of the one
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: of the best the barrels around. And she she probably
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: could be a pretty good setter too, because sometimes if
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: someone else, you know, digs it out and it comes
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: towards her instead of Brooklyn thereby, she's actually pretty good
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: at setting up. But another one of those players that
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: will chase down anything. And it was as soon as
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I when I was at State for one A and
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: two A, obviously Ferndale wasn't there there three A. They
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: were there the next weekend. I know there's there's rules
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: about like the player can't leave like the blue area,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: you know, to get a loose ball. And the first
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: thing I thought about was was Katrina Fairy. I was like, man,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: when Ferndale gets there next week, she's gonna hate that
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: because she could just chase after anything. And and another
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: really good server too. And you know, it took a
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: pretty good jump up on this list. She was on
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: it last year but made the made the top ten
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: this this season. Yeah, very very athletic and uh you know,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: she's she's out for blood when she's when when she's playing,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: she's she has no nonsense and uh yeah, just a great,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: great defensive player. She'd be up there for Defensive Player
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of the Year as well. Elizabeth Delangh holy cow uh
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: uber talented, you know, major major prospect. I would imagine
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: at six foot two, sophomore and another middle that can serve,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: which is always great. Keep her out on the floor,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: but there are moments when she just takes over matches
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter who they're against, you know. I
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: I wish I had like a like a jugs gun
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: so I could see, like how fast some of these
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: kills are, because I would imagine I wouldn't say that
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: she was consistently the you know, had the most like
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: miles per hour on her kill, if that's even a thing,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: but I would say, for like, if you would say
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: like the top five fastest times, she probably had three
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: of them, you know what I mean. Like when she
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: really gets into it, it is it is lethal and
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: u and a really good defensive player too in the
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: middle with blocks and stuff like that. But again, just
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: a sophomore, so really excited about her future. Ryan Stephen
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: outside hit her for Lyndon and yeah, yeah, she's six
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: ' one and that's all great and everything, but she's
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: a really good server too, and she would what she's
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: really good at. She'll line up on the left side
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: and just serve it right down the line, which is
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: kind of a you know, daring thing to do because
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: you don't want to hit it out of bounds. But
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: she could hug that line so well. And it's like
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: she would get aces where the ball wouldn't even be touched.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Like you don't see that very often where you see
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: an ace where the ball is not even touched and
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: you know, part of it could because a player thinks
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: it's out but it falls right in. But sometimes they
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: would do it where they all tried for it and
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: they still couldn't get to it. So one of the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: best servers as far as placing it where it needs
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, I can't believe she's a junior. It's crazy.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Another really good basketball player too. So you know these
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: multiple sport athletes for Lynd and it's paying off and
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: she's a she's a dominant, dominant player with you know,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: a big time abilities and you know, another one of
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: those like kind of prospects where you see someone that
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: that tall Emmy le at c Home. There are things
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: that she does on the court that stats don't really explain.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, she will the leadership qualities, getting her team,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: getting her girls together and talking to them after each
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: point and explaining certain things. I mean, there was a
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: great five set match that was at Lyndon Christian and
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: great great match and it came right down to the
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: end of the fifth set and and she was doing that.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: She was talking to her team and they were up
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: like fourteen thirteen, but Elsie was serving and it was
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: one of those serves that like just barely went over
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: the net, it might even hit the net, and then
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: just kind of died over it. And she just lunged
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: out and hit it with one hand and it barely
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: went over the net, and they won because of it.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: And the whole team just rushed the court and hugged
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: her and they were like, she's been the one who's
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: like leading this path the whole way and and she
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: got her moment and everybody loved to share that with her,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: which that was so cool because I was watching it
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: live on NFHS and got to write about it the
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: next day, and I just thought, man, that was such
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: a cool moment because as a setter, you're kind of,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: you know, serving for everybody else. You know, you're not
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: really you're not going to take the glory very often.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: And so but she's you know, she's she's very good
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: at the like the little set where you just go
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: boo and you put it, put it over the net.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: But you know at five nine, five ten that that
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: helps to as a that can be able to do that.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Just it's been so awesome watching her play volleyball the
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: last two years. Another player that just was always there
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: and always competitive and and always one of the best
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: players on the court. Ella Fritz is just an athletic freak.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: There's some stuff that she does that I just go, yeah, nobody,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: nobody else can do that. That's why she's doing it.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: And it was evident at the state tournament. I don't
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: think I I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: be surprised if she never took a break the entire season.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: I think she was on the court the entire season.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: I never saw her take a break. And you know,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: just a tremendous like point guard on the basketball team,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: you know, scary athletic. Uh there's a there's a thing
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: that she can do where it's almost like a reverse
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: one handed dunk. I guess you would kind of compare
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: it to. But when she's going up for like a set,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: she does like the jump sets a lot, and she's
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: very athletic. And if it's close to the net and
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: she and she picks her spot, she'll just go one
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: handed like behind her behind her head and just dunk
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: it right over the net. And it's like, holy cow,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: like it just looks so easy when when she does it.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: And and and after that opening loss that was as
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: close as it can get in the first round where
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: it was three sets, but it was each one was
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: by two points. She willed that team to not lose
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: again the rest of the tournament and to get seventh place.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: And that was that really said a lot and just
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: a junior again, another player like I can't believe she's
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: just a junior, and so really excited to see what
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: she does this year for basketball. Led them to third
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: place in state last year as a sophomore, and we'll
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: see what they do this year. A huge, you know,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: huge win against four A Lake Stevens on Saturday, and
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully she can keep that thing going.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Great great athlete. Well, Tyler, you can't believe she's just
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: a junior. Let me tell you about number five on
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: the list, it's Meridian freshman outside to hit her number
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: eleven for the Trojans, Melanie Short.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, super athletic coming in this season. Of course, didn't
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: know anything about her. All I knew is that Meridian
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: lost Emery Clays, who was there. You know, six 's
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: one outside hitter that was you know, amazing and helped
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: them get fourth in state. That was the only player
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: that they were losing. And when I was talking to
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: the coach about it, she's like, well, we do have
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: a freshman that's coming in. That's pretty good. And that's
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: all she said, and which I give a lot of
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: credit to coach Angela Short by not saying, my daughter's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: coming in and she's awesome, you know, she just said, well,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: we have a freshman coming in. That's pretty good. So
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: and she was amazing. I mean there were matches where
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: she would put up unreal numbers and uh yeah, she
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: ended up leading the county and kills perset, which you know,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: to do that as a freshman is superper incredible. I mean, great,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: great leaping ability, but also she was great at timing
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: it up just right and maybe being able to stang
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: in the air a little bit and then just kind
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: of like tip it over the defense. So her ability
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: to see that and adjust on the fly was really
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: really apparent, and I really got to see that at
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the state tournament up up close. When you know, you
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: start you see a team play so much, and you
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: see them play two, you know, two matches a day,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: you got you start to really really see things, and
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: it was apparent like she's not just you know, a
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: great leaper, like there's a lot of other things that
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: she's doing that and really good at the service line
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: as well. And then you know, the first basketball game,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: so I'm not surprised she plays basketball. She comes off
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: the bench and leads the team in scoring in her
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: first game as first varsity basketball game. It's like, my goodness,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Like what a what an athlete. So again, I feel
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: like the luckiest guy in the world be able to
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: do this. But it's great to when I see a
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: player that's playing multiple sports that is just a freshman,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: because I just, you know, I just that's when I
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: just throw my hands and I go, this is awesome.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I get to do this. And she's
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: a you know, she's one of those kind of players.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: At number four on the top of fifty countdown Seahome
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Junior Libero number six, McKenna Andrews.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big, big jump on the list this year. I
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: think she was like in the forties or thirties last year,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: but she was a defensive specialist. Last year they had
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: a really good liberro and Molli Berfiend. She graduates, McKenna
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Andrews takes over and she met had a better year
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: than Molly had as a senior, which is hard to say.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: McKenna is, Holy cow, she's good. She I can't recall
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: like a time when she didn't get the ball she
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: was going after, if that makes sense. Like he just
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: she gets to everything and her abilility to put it
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: exactly where Emmy needs it, like it's it's crazy, and
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: that's you know, the big reason why Seeholm was so
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: successful was McKenna Andrews. And I don't I just don't
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: know if it got seen enough or if it was
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: noticed enough. But and another player that rarely left the court. Yeah,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: awesome to watch her play. She's a really good server too.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: I believe they start the game with her serving usually,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: which always kind of tells me something there. I'm trying
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: to remember if that's right, but I think it is again.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: And I thought, like for the first like two or
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: three weeks, I thought she was a senior for some reason.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: And I think I even put on when she won
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Week. I think I even put
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: like senior or or I think we talked about her
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: as a senior or something on the podcast and you know,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: coach reached out to me goes and she's only junior,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, you really like I For
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: some reason. Sometimes I just lock that in and I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: hate that I have it wrong, but uh, that she is.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: She would be in that running for defensive Defensive Player
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: of the Year, and like like like, like I said,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: there's no mistakes, there's no fault in her game. Everything
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: is precise and really really impressive to see what she does.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: Number three on the top fifty countdown Ferndale sophomore. She's
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: a setter. It's number two Brooklyn Larrabee.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, best setter in the county as just a sophomore,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: which is just crazy because there are some unbelievable setters
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: out there, and the numbers weren't there as far as
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: a cisco as they were last year. But I think
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: she had some stronger offensive I mean, she they they
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: lost couple of girls to graduation that are playing college volleyball,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: and it was just a different team this year. It
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: was more defense oriented. But it's funny because I'd get
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: the stats from the coaches and it would be this
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: is a great example. It would say like, you know,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: so and so had you know, eight digs and two aces,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: and so and so had six kills, one and a
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: half blocks and three digs. So and then it would
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: get to Brooklyn and so like Brooklyn had forty three assists,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: nine kills, six aces, fourteen digs and two and a
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: half blocks, And I'm like, holy crap. And it was
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: like that every single time. She would do so much.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: And I guarantee you she never left the court. She
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: was and she is. She floats in the air when
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: she serves. I know I've talked about that millions of times.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: But it's like, I don't know how she does it.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Like she takes a big running start and then she
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: jumps and hits the ball and then looks like she's
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: doing a long jump afterwards. It's like, how is she
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: physically doing that? And then the stuff she can get
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: to she would like if she was an outside hitter,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: she'd be at all Conference. If she was a if
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: she was a libero, she'd be all conference. If she
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: was you know, defensive special, she'd be all conference. That's
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: just that's the kind of volleyball player she is. She
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: she's I saw her out at matches just watching if
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: they didn't have a game, She's out there watching, you know,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: sea On Versus Ana chordus, like, she's out there, she's watching.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: She you could tell she loves volleyball and just an
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: incredible player and uh and a really great kid. I've
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: gotten to know her, you know a little bit recently
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: and now she's playing basketball again, which is cool, and uh,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: you know she does some track and field and stuff
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: like that, and you know, got to know her parents.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: And of course her brother's playing golf at UCLA now
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I you know, again, it's
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: great when you meet these kids when they're freshmen or
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: sophomores and you get to see them grow up and
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: do the stuff that they love and you get a
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: right about it. It's it's the best in the world.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Number two Tyler from Meridian Senior Loberro. Number five for
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: the Trojans. My favorite player Rylan Bernardi.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, holy cow, someone that loves volleyball. I'll tell you that.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: She always has a huge smile on her face, you know,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: after every point, and then all the girls will get
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: together and celebrate. Yeah if they if they get the point,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: there's a little more celebration. If they didn't get the point,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: they all still come together and they say okay, you know,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Like nobody celebrates like Rathan Bernardi. She
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: is jacked up. She is she's doing I mean she's
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: doing like a three sixties spinner root jump in the air,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: you know, fist on the ground, vocal as all get out.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: She's like a spider monkey when she goes after that ball.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: She can get to anything and and probably the you know,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: one of the top three servers in the in the county.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: She would be my vote for defensive player of the year.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: And what just a leader. I mean, that's going to
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: be the spot if you're talking about any spot in
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: the county the hardest to fill will be that one.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: I think Kinsley Neil will probably take over as the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: libero next year for the Trojans, and she's a great
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: great player, but Rylan Bernardi is extra special. Yeah, just
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. She is. She
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: she's a player that I really wish she played other
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: sports because she I think she could. I think she'd
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: be awesome with basketball. I think she'd be awesome at
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: whatever she did. I mean, she's just that kind of athlete.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, there was probably I never I
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: don't know. I think at the state tournament she probably
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: supplied the most whoa moments. You know, when you hear
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: the whole crowd go whoa, Like you know, you think
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: that the other like you see this in volleyball two
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: where the other team starts to celebrate and it plays
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: not over yet. She would keep those kinds of plays
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: alive and it's like, holy cow, they're just there's they're
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: still playing. It's because of something she would do, and
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: that is really hard to you know, you can't put
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: you know, that's not a you know, stat moment or
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean I'm really analytical and I look
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: at the numbers and everything and stuff like that, but
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: it's there's extra stuff involved that she does that you
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: can't put numbers on, and and uh, the value levels
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: off the charts and she's really gonna be missed next year.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Well, Tyler, we were down to number one on the list,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: and oddly enough, it's the girl that gave us the
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: the intro tonight. I mean, what are the odds? I mean,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: who who thought that we would have picked her? Lyndon sophomore,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: just a sophomore outside hitter. It's number nine, Finley Partre.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just you know, and she's a basketball player playing volleyball,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: you know, is it's insane to see what she can do.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because you yeah, I don't know
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: how to put this, Like like when you watch your
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: play sports period, you go, that's a college athlete, like
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: right now, Like that's that is, she's too old to
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: play high school. But then like when you talk to her,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: you take her picture, you're like, yeah, she's a high
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: school girl. It's like she transforms when she gets between
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: the lines, where she gets so focused and she's just
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: so determined and so good at everything she does. I mean,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: she does that serve where you you know, you throw
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: it fifty feet in the year and then you run
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: forever and then hit it. It's like, how does she
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: do that every time? How does she time it perfectly
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: every single time. It's like she's just that athletic, she's
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: that talented, she's that gifted, she's that good. And yeah,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: there's there's nothing that she can't do on the volleyball court.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: She is Holy cow. Yeah, I can't again, I can't
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: believe she's just a sophner. You know, she was one too.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: That when when she was a freshman and they were
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: at the state tournament, I got, you know, I'm sitting
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: down there a floor level with my little green wi
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: a vest and or smock or whatever, and I'm sitting
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: next to her grandpa, you know, and and he's down
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: there because he's in a wheelchair and or a little
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: buggy or something. And and I remember just sitting and
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: watching volleyball with him, and he'd be like, he's pointing
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: out to Finley. He's like, that's my granddaughter. And I'm like, man,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: she is awesome. And he's just you could see the
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: pride in his face, you know, watching her. And yeah,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: it's just you know, I missed him this year because
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: Lynda didn't go to the to the state tournament. But
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I just those kinds of things, I don't
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: know she I mean, she doesn't play a spring sport.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: She would just dominate whatever she did. But I'm sure
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: she's playing basketball, you know, year round and stuff like that.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: And you know, I think they've she was played on
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: like some club team in eighth grade where they won
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: the national championship in basketball. I mean, she just she is.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: She is a difference maker. She's and I'm so glad
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: she's in Walking County because it is so fun to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: watch her play sports. And yeah, she she deserves that
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: that number one spot. This was a tough year for
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: number one. It was. It was just there's so many
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know, there's like a group of really good setters,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: and there's a ton of really good underclassmen. There's I mean,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: there's just all these kind of groups kind of together
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: and and but when you boil it all down, Finleypartcher
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: was the best one. And uh that says a lot
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: because it's a big time group of players.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: You know, Tyler. I was just looking, you know, kind
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: of as I go through this, and I noticed there's
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: only three seniors in the top fifteen, which is cool.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: But then as you go even further, I mean there's
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: a stretch from twenty nine to forty four where there's
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: not a single senior, you know, crazy, Yeah, I mean,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: like you just you look at the youth of this list,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: and I mean it's going to be tough for I mean,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: how many seniors are there total one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: eleven total seniors. I mean it's going to be really
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: hard for many people to move move in next year, right.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say to crack the list will be tough, Yeah, exactly.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: And you know, there's gonna be a couple eighth graders
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: that are eight careers now that'll be freshman next year
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: that'll probably make the list that I.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: Don't even know about. Yeah, well, and they're always is.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: And there's a blank spot here at the bottom of
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: my my list because I removed the name so they
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: weren't in my way. But you had a couple of
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: names down there, tyler and I don't remember who they were,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: but a couple of names that were probably number fifty
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: one and fifty two that are probably ready to move
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: in also, you know, yeah, yeah, it was tough. It
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: was tough.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: You know, the thirty five to fifty was really tough.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: There were I went back and forth on a few
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: different things, and I moved things around, and then I
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I got to get this done. I
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: got to settle it because when I'm making the graphics
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: and stuff, I got to start with fifty. So I
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: got I got to make sure that I have done.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: I got to get those done, you know. So those
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: are the ones that are coming out first. And you're right,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's tough. It's and the
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: teams that you know that struggled a little bit this
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: year are really on the on the incline. I mean
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: they are. They're going to be better. You know, You're
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: going to see Baker get better. You're going to see
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: you know, Blaine is going to get better. They both
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: had first year coaches this year that are getting them
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: steered in the right way. Squalkum had kind of a
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: tough year, but they only had one senior this year.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: They're gonna get better. So it's you know, I mean
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: Bellingham had they struggled this year, but they had four
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: players on this list and none of them are seniors.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, It's like holy cow, like,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: so it's there's not there's gonna be a little bit
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: more parody I think next year in volleyball, which makes
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: it even tougher to make a list like this, and
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: but it makes it fun because you might see some upsets.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Volleyball is one of those sports where you don't see
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: a ton of upsets. It's like you kind of go
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: into it knowing, Okay, it's going to be this is
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: the only The only question is how many sets is
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: it going to be? And like half of those, you
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: know it's gonna be three zero, So it's you kind
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: of go into it that way. But I think it's
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be pretty exciting next year, you know. I think
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Linnon will take that next step up again, back to
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: where they used to be and get back to this
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: to the state tournament. Sealm is gonna be really dominant again.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: Meridian returns a lot, but they lose some big time
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: key players, you know, Rylan Bernardi and Grace Wells and
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: so forth. But you know, else returns a lot. Squalm
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: returns a lot, Bellingham returns everybody except for one player. Yeah,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: you know, k Nooksack Valley returns their whole team. I mean,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: it's it's going to be crazy Ferndale. Ferndale graduates like
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: six players, but if you look on that top ten list,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: they had two players of the top ten there were underclassmen.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: So they're going to be really good, you know. It's
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: it's it's exciting. And I've really really grown to love
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: watching the sport and learn about it and and thankful
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: for those coaches that are sometimes in attendance that are
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: I can walk over to and sit next to and say, Okay,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: why this you know, and I would ask questions because
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: I want to learn about the sport. Okay, what does
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: that mean? Why did the official put do this motion?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: What does that mean? And I and and it's one
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: of the it's probably the you know, the biggest sport
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: my head that is growing the fastest as far as
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: my interest. Like I'm just I you know, I'm excited
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: to watch it. I find myself watching it on you know,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: in the background on my TV, like watching college volleyball
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, just because it's pretty phenomenal just
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: to see it, to see what they can do. And
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: there's some high level volleyball being played in Walkam County.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, volleyball is I think it's a great sport. I
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: think it's one of those sports that you really got
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: to be there to truly appreciate it. But volleyball is, uh,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: you know, it's a wild sport. There's a lot that
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: goes on that people don't know, you know what I mean,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: and don't notice, And yeah, yeah, it's fun. I do
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: enjoy watching it. The the athleticism is unbelieva.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. And like when I went when I watched
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: a lot last year, I was really kind of going
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: in raw and not really knowing much. And then when
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: I was able to sit down really close during the
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: state tournament, I remember like the very first match I
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: was there for, like a nine am match NUKXAC Valley,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there really close, and I was watching
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: before the surf, like Peyton Barto would grab her shirt
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: and pull it aside and give give a hand signal
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: to her team, and I'm like, yeah, what is she doing?
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Like it took me the whole year to realize that
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: the setters are like setting up where they're gonna go
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: with it before the play. I had no idea. I'd
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: been watching the whole year and never noticed that. But
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: because I was kind of sitting where I was like
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: at that ground level and it was like right in
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: my eyes. And then now I'm starting to like watch
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: for things like that. I was like, there's so much
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: about the sport that I have no idea about, and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: it's really fun to learn and just kind of go
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: as I go and try to see these things. It's
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: I was watching volleyball this year at Bothlen. There was
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: one girl that and she like, you know, set up
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: a spike and when she did it, like I thought
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: she was gonna throw her back out, but then the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: other girl had like looped around her almost and like
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: like you said, I don't remember who it was you
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: said about, but it was like one of those like
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: cross court, you know, kills. And I looked at our
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: athletic trainer sit next to me, I go, how the
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: hell did she do that? And he goes, what And
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: I go, It's like an alley oop. Every single time
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: they want it, they want to spike, every time they
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: want to to hit it down, it's an alley oop.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: How the heck do they time it's perfectly, you know
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: what I mean, and at the same time move in
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: their arm to hit it, like how they do that?
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: Like I mean, I just don't. I don't understand it.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: Like I can barely stand there toss it up with
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: one hand and smack it, spinning it off like it's
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: a curveball, you know what I mean, and make myself
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: like a complete idiot. And I mean, obviously they put
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: in a ton of practice and you know, muscle memory,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: and you do it over and over, but it's just
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: the timing that it takes is unbelievable. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, it really is. It's It's truly one of
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: those sports. And I mean, if if you ever watch
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: like the men's volleyball too, oh yeah, holy cow, those guys.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: I was watching it one time. It was like the
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: Brazilian national team or something, and those guys were like
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: flying out of the building. I was like, good.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: Lord man, Yeah, it's crazy.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: Every single one of those guys also playing basketball. They
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: can fly through the imagine the slam dunk competitions that
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: could come from that. Yeah, my goodness. But ye, anything left, Tyler.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: Are we done?
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: I think we're I think we're done.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: I think we covered it all all Righty. Before we
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: get out of here, let's give another thank you to
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: APEX and Northwest Volleyball club. They have sponsored the Top
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: fifty Countdown and they sponsored the stats throughout the year.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: You can find them online. Apex ap e a p
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: e x NW Volleyball Club dot org is the website.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: Get on there if you're thinking about volleyball because they
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: do a lot of great things. So, uh, that is
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: kind of your I don't know, one stop shop. I
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: mean if you want to if you want to be
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: playing volleyball for Walkham County, that is the place to
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: go again apex NW Volleyball Club dot org. He's Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Anderson Wakampreps, walkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been
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  Speaker 2: listening to episode of three hundred and fifteen the Volleyball
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: Top Fifty Countdown here on the Welcome Press podcast. We
• 1:21:06
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