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Veteran roster has Bureau Valley aiming higher · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Veteran roster has Bureau Valley aiming higher. Written by Clock Teuscher,
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  Speaker 1: this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. For three seasons, Bureau Valley volleyball
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  Speaker 1: coach Sage Allison has pursued a goal of creating a
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  Speaker 1: program led first and foremost from within. As the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six season, beckons Allison is seeing that vision begin
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  Speaker 1: to pay off as an experience, cohesive, self motivated squad
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  Speaker 1: is intent on rising to a new competitive level. All summer,
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  Speaker 1: We've had strong senior leadership and a big class of
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  Speaker 1: juniors who are returning for their second year on varsity,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and there's not a whole lot of direction
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  Speaker 1: coming from me. They're creating the environment they want to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of, which is huge. I think an
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  Speaker 1: athlete led program has the chance for the most success,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we're finally getting there. Last year's seniors
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  Speaker 1: really started that, and this year's seniors are continuing with
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  Speaker 1: the same mentality. At the forefront of the effort is
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  Speaker 1: senior setter Libby Endres, a second team All Lincoln Trail
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  Speaker 1: Conference selection a season ago. She's walking like a senior
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  Speaker 1: talking like a senior and leading like a senior, Allison
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  Speaker 1: said of Endress, everyone's kind of following her lead. Seniors
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  Speaker 1: Sierra Taylor, Maggie Bessler, and Natalie Edlafson will also be
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  Speaker 1: counted on for leadership in their first season on the
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  Speaker 1: varsity roster. Their time on JV last year really really
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  Speaker 1: did them some good, Allison said. They came back this
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  Speaker 1: summer after that and they've grown and their confidence has grown.
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  Speaker 1: The remainder of the roster will be filled by juniors
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  Speaker 1: Brook Helms, Elise House, Leah Birdsley, Remi Marshall, Kiera Dye,
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  Speaker 1: Maya Ship, Denika Benevetez, Maddy Price, and Brinley Doty. As
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  Speaker 1: the Storm prepare for their season opener, a key point
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  Speaker 1: of emphasis will be the transition from defense to offence
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  Speaker 1: to enable more efficient scoring. In the past, we've had
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  Speaker 1: that back row presence that is able to set up
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  Speaker 1: our offense to get going, and it doesn't always convert
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  Speaker 1: into the amount of points that we get from our offense,
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  Speaker 1: Allison said. This year, we would love to see a
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  Speaker 1: higher attack percentage from each of our girls that have
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to swing every night. After three straight seasons
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  Speaker 1: near the point five zero zero mark. The Storm's veteran
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  Speaker 1: presence has them thinking about success in larger terms as
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  Speaker 1: a program. I think that we're still hungry for some success,
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  Speaker 1: Allison said. Their goal, my goal as their coach, and
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody's goal is to make their mark permanently
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  Speaker 1: in the gym. We're working every single day inside and
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  Speaker 1: outside the gym to get a banner hung in the
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  Speaker 1: Storm Cellar Bureau Valley opens the season Monday at Newman's
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  Speaker 1: Central Catholic in Sterling.