{"id":91391,"date":"2017-08-12T06:35:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T11:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=91391"},"modified":"2017-08-14T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:44:01","slug":"lview-primed-for-volleyball-title-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/08\/12\/lview-primed-for-volleyball-title-run\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;view primed for volleyball title run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coming off a 14-9 (6-2, third place Northwest Conference) season, and with six returning starters and a total of eight letter winners, expectations are high for the 2017 Lincolnview Lady Lancers volleyball team.<\/p>\n<p>The list of starters\/letterwinners includes four seniors: outside hitter Alana Williams (second team all-NWC 2016), middle blocker Kayla Schimmoeller (honorable mention all-NWC), and outside hitters MaKenna Klausing and Kaitlyn Brennaman, along with two juniors: setter Morgan Miller and libero Lakin Brant (second team all-NWC).<\/p>\n<p>The other two letter winners are sophomore defensive specialist Kerstin Davis and junior outside hitter Carly Wendel, who lettered as a freshman but missed all of last season due to an injury.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-39209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Volleyball-artwork-5-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"181\" \/>Two freshmen may contribute as well &#8212; setter Briana Ebel and middle blocker Madison Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the experience back this year with only losing one senior to graduation,\u201d Lincolnview head coach JaNahn Evans said. \u201cWe have a strong group of girls that work well together and really enjoy playing with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be a contender at a conference title,\u201d Evans added. \u201cOur team is working hard and we are ready to make a run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans acknowledged the race for the NWC title will be a tough one. Ada is the two-time defending champion (outright last year, co-champions with Paulding in 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest Conference looks strong this year,\u201d Evans said. \u201cEvery team will be tough and every night will be a battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAda has the league player of the year back, Columbus Grove will be a contender with strong team and we are expecting Allen East and Crestview to be tough competition as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview\u2019s regular season will begin August 22 at non-conference rival Van Wert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Coming off a 14-9 (6-2, third place Northwest Conference) season, and with six returning starters and a total of eight letter winners, expectations are high for the 2017 Lincolnview Lady Lancers volleyball team. The list of starters\/letterwinners includes four seniors: outside hitter Alana Williams (second team all-NWC 2016), middle blocker Kayla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 09:42:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}