The St. Anthony’s Junior High Boys volleyball team won its championship night and is looking forward to an even stronger next season.
Greg Lemieux coached the team, and saw incredible progress throughout the season.
They are a young team with many Grade 8 players and a few Grade 7 players on the squad.
‘We were building on some of the stuff we did last year. For the Grade 8 players, there was a lot of improvement, and for the Grade 7 players we worked on getting them used to our system,” said Lemieux.
On November 4, the Saints played Morrin for their league championship and won.
This was the perfect cap to a strong season, which included tournament play.
In September, they were in Okotoks to play in the Christ the Redeemer School Division eight-team tournament and won third place.
On November 1, the Saints were in Bassano for a five-team tournament and came home with the gold medal.
“We were missing quite a few of our players because they were on a band trip, so we brought up three grade 6 players,” said Lemieux. “They played phenomenally well, I was very impressed.”
He is proud of how the team played and is looking forward to next season.
“The players we had this year were just Grade 7 and 8s, so we are looking strong next year and want to keep building for the future,” said Lemieux.
The St. Anthony’s Saints junior boys volleyball team won first at tournament in Bassano, and then went on to close out the season winning Championship Night versus Morrin.
