Sunday, September 1, 2019

2019 SEASON PREVIEW

The 9th graders will embark in their inaugural season with a home heavy schedule.  The young Lady Hilltoppers will host 4 matches in September and travel to 4 and will see an October of just home matches, 8 of them to be exact. 

The JV Squad will again see a packed schedule and will look to continue the amazing success the team has experienced recently.  As a matter of fact, the last 3 seasons have been the most successful in the entire program.


JV RECORD
#1 - 2016: 17W -6L  (.739 )
#2 - 2017: 16W - 6L (.727)
#3 - 2018: 17W - 7L  (.708) - 6 matches with 9th graders playing JV (3w-3l)

The Varsity Squad is coming off a 9W-15L season but went 7W-7L (.500) in division play,
first time that has occurred since 2010. The Squad also earned a victory over New Providence
last year (first time since 2011) and beat Chatham for the first time in program history
at the Varsity level.

The 9 wins were the 3rd highest number earned by the team since 2010 and last year the
Varsity Squad was the best defensive team Summit has seen, earning the record for the
total number of digs and digs/game in a season. The team will be looking to improve its
offensive numbers and match the production of the last 2 most productive seasons
in program history (2010-11) when the team earned 13.30 and 14.05 points per game
(#3 and #1 all-time) and saw their record climb to 15W-9L in 2010 and 21W-4L in 2011,
the best record by any Lady Hilltopper Volleyball Team.

The 2018 Team scored at 12.21 points per game and the 2019 Squad will look to improve
on that number with the goal to qualify for the Group 2 Championship Tournament for the
first time since 2012.

The Lady Hilltoppers will look for massive contributions from its brand new front-line
of hitters featuring the only middle returner to the offense, Captain, Sylvie Goudreau.
The defensive unit will also be brand new with Captain Kiera Stocks being the anchor of
the defense and serve receive as the Libero. The team will rely heavily on the trio of
setters, Kyra Guenther, Kasey Walsh and Abby Doyle to run a faster tempo offense.

The JV and Varsity Squad will open up at home on Wednesday, 9/4 against the Rams of Wardlaw-Hartridge and the 9th Graders will open up on Thursday, also at home, against Payne Tech.

All levels will play again on Friday, 9/6 at home versus the Crusaders of Governor Livingston.


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