Lady Bulldogs aim to finish last year’s business in volleyball
Coach Luke Davis leaning on four seniors this season to achieve success
Published: September 17, 2018
CONWAY — St. Joseph High School’s Lady Bulldogs had a scrapbook season last year, winning the conference title and their first district crown in four years. The only mar on the Conway school’s otherwise perfect season was being denied a trip to the state finals by Hoxie High School.
This year’s seniors are looking to fill in that blank on their resume.
“We’ve been doing stations every practice and running and doing a lot of conditioning and just working really hard on defense and offense. We’re focusing,” said Alexis Roach, outside/middle hitter and two-year varsity player.
“We have improved on passing,” said Mattie Elsinger, in her second varsity season as an all-around player. “I know last year we did good on that, but I feel like this year we have a lot more passers. We still need to get our serves over. Of course, that’s like every year we need to work on that.”
Elsinger and Roach, who’ve spent their entire upbringing at St. Joseph, are joined by Bailee Atkinson, center, and Chloe Denton, all-around, who each joined the school in eighth grade. Together the quartet share the mantle of leadership on a varsity squad that also includes two juniors and a fast-learning sophomore
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