Fall Camp Travels: Area's top volleyball teams gear up for season

While at the same time football groups hit the field a week ago so as to get an entire month of training in before the ambitious start to the season, other fall sports programs began vigorously on Monday.

Freedom has won no less than an offer of the Southwest Yosemite League title every one of the previous three seasons under head mentor Amy Parker.

The Patriots began hone Monday evening with 65 players on the court for each of the three levels with the desire for remaining on the class standings.

"When you have 10 returners, you need those pioneers venture up," Parker said.

Freedom graduated three starters, including 2017 BVarsity Player of the Year Lauryn Burt, however bring back four starters and a lot of key givers.

Elise Ferreira will be a four-year starter for Liberty and is verbally dedicated to playing school volleyball as a setter at Oregon. Before she makes the full progress to the position, Ferreira will remain on the court in the 6-2 pivot due to her capacity to be a top of the line hitter at the secondary school level.

"She knows she conveys a considerable measure of weight on her shoulders," Parker said. "She's the pioneer. Be that as it may, her own desires are significantly higher than dig would ever be for her. Her capacities are through the rooftop."

Ferreira is one of two skippers for Liberty, alongside individual returning starter Kaitlin Tucker. The two will lead a squad with only three seniors however a ton of capable underclassmen.

"I think we lost a decent center from last season," Ferreira said of Burt, Lanie Camarillo and Liana Caroccio. "Be that as it may, with me and Kaitlin driving with the correct outlook, we can get to where we should be fruitful."

On the opposite side of the Westside Parkway, Matt Touchstone is entering his third season as a head mentor at Bakersfield Christian.

Last season the Eagles progressed to a fifth sequential Central Section title coordinate, yet lost the title coordinate without precedent for that traverse.

Gone are senior pioneers like Kathea Schamblin, Sarah Wilkins and Lillie Graham. Additionally gone is a 69-amusement winning streak in South Sequoia League play since BCHS will be in the South Yosemite League.

In any case, the desires are still there in the new alliance with new administration on the court.

"We have great ball control and a decent center gathering that comprehends the importance of playing as a group," Touchstone said. "A year ago, we had the aptitude yet not the group science. Presently, it's better."

Catherine Balfanz returns as a setter and outside hitter for the Eagles. Jessica Stump is back at center blocker alongside Grace Sandman, Lexi Reynish at setter and Gwyneth Bouma playing libero and right side.

Touchstone is additionally cheerful that a skilled approaching green bean class, drove by outside hitter Ashley Herman, will help the group quickly when the season begins with a tremendous non-alliance coordinate at Fresno-Central on Aug. 21.

"We do have a decent approaching gathering of green beans," Touchstone said. "It will be a good time for future years."

New book with Kern feel

For a long time, Mark Tennis has been a piece of Cal-Hi Sports in all features.

Like me, Tennis experienced childhood in suburbia east of downtown Sacramento adoring everything football.

One month from now, Tennis' book, "Secondary School Football in California," will hit bookshelves.

It's an absolute necessity read for anybody with enthusiasm for the huge history of the game in the state.

What's more, obviously, it has a Kern County attach to it.

One of the greatest commitments Tennis and Cal-Hi Sports has given football fans is the verifiable references and records from the beginning of the game over 100 years back here in California.

In the book, Tennis alludes to Bakersfield High as one of the two biggest projects in state history, alongside Long Beach Poly.

In the book, it peruses, "Other than essentially having a greater number of wins than any school in California history, the Drillers remain solitary for being the main school with two diverse head mentors who have won in excess of 200 amusements."

Tennis is alluding to Dwight "Goldie" Griffith (1908-1945) and Paul Briggs (1953-1985).

"You can't compose a book about California secondary school football and not specify Bakersfield," Tennis said in a telephone meet from his Stockton office on Monday. "As the book came to fruition, the section about the best schools came to shape."

There is a lot more to this book from John Wayne playing at Glendale High (at that point passing by his original name of Marion Morrison), to the principal ESPN live communicate in 2003 with Concord-De La Salle and Evangel Christian out of Louisiana.