Parents Needed: Black Diamond Triathalon Fundraiser

Kentlake Volleyball is helping out at the Black Diamond Triathalon Sept 12th - 12:00-6:00 pm (FRIDAY) We need 20 people to help hand out packet pick ups & body markings! WE NEED 20 VOLUNTEERS FOR THIS!!! since kids are in school we need to see if we can get the adults to do this part! ALSO: Sept 14th - from 5:30 AM - 1:00 PM (THIS IS SUNDAY) I do not know what we are scheduled to do on this day! I believe just working the actual Triathalon. We need the VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS and PARENTS to sign up on this also! We need 30 Volunteers for this day!!!
We have 4 teams playing at Kentlake there should be enough people to volunteer! This is money is for our teams this year... We are not doing any set-up like we did on the last one it will be much easier!

You can signup online at http://www.kentlakevb.org/signup_triathalon.htm

Parents Need to Help

We need parents to help with all of the home matches this year. It works best if Varsity parents help with the JV games, JV parents help with the Varsity games and Freshman and "C" team parents help with their daughter's games.

The schedule for the Freshman and "C" team games will be available soon.

Please sign-up online.

Get Your Spirit Wear Today

You can order Kentlake Volleyball t-shirts, polos, sweatpants, etc online. Go to http://www.gearspiritpacks.com/, and use the User Id of "kentlake" and the password of "volleyball08". You only have one week from today to order items.

Varsity Jamboree

The Jamboree will be September 9th at Emerald Ridge HS on Puyallup's South Hill. It is a long way down there and the traffic can be bad, so allow plenty of time to get there. Play will be being at 3pm against Fife. The format is one game to 25 against 6 different teams. Round 1 is Fife (3pm) and Graham-Kapowsin (4pm). Round 2 is Curtis (5pm) and Stadium (5:30pm). Round 3 is North Mason (6pm) and Beamer (7pm).

You will notice that there are 4A teams from SPSL South and Narrows League plus 2A Fife (who is consistently very good).

2008 Varsity

Congratulations to the 2008 Kentlake Varsity Volleyball team:

• Jen Barber
• Paeton Bartholomew
• Christi Blanton
• Hannah Borgen
• Riley Butler
• Kim Cosway
• Mckenna Herron
• Maggie Howe
• Melissa Kozy
• Mackenzie Kyle
• Holly Marx
• Aryn McCarthy
• Sarah Ralph

Kentlake VB Alums

Check out the new blog about those ex-Falcons still playing competitively. That will include Courtney Thompson, Shelly Seivers and Kathy Taylor. Please, please, please, let us know if we missed anyone.

Tryout Times

Times for Kentlake Volleyball Tryouts are posted below. Coach Behrens has "in service" days that week, so the times had to be arranged around her schedule. Also, these times will allow Coach Thorsness to attend more of the sessions. Coach Behrens says teams should be finalized by Friday with some possible cuts on Thursday, depending on the numbers.

• Monday: 4-7pm
• Tuesday: 1-3pm and 4-7pm
• Wednesday: 4-7pm
• Thursday: 4-7pm
• Friday: 1-3pm and 4-7pm
  

State Tournament Date Change

The dates for the 4A State Volleyball Tournament in Kennewick have changed to November 21st and 22nd. No idea how that will affect the SPSL post-season tournament dates that were based on the earlier announced dates of November 14th and 15th.

Unfortunately, the Toyota Center wrote the tournament dates down wrong and they scheduled a Jeff Dunham concert for the night of the 14th, so the tournament had to move. Gee, sounds like we have been there before. I wonder if the Tacoma Dome is busy?

Tryout Up Next: August 25th

Camp is over and it is now time for summer break. When next they meet it will be for real with tryouts starting on August 25th.

All incoming freshman and anyone else that does not have a physical on file from within the last two years, must get a new sports physical. The form is available at http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/AT/students/physical.pdf or from any middle school or high school office and from many area doctors. Again, ALL INCOMING FRESHMEN MUST HAVE A NEW PHYSICAL performed after June 1st of this summer. That is a WIAA and KSD rule.

Kellcee Merritt Helps KJ to 5th in Nation

Kentlake senior to be Kellcee Merritt helped spur the KJVBC 17 team to 5th in the nation at the Junior Olympic Volleyball Tournament this week in Dallas, TX. KJ was seeded 26 of 28 going into the tournament. Kellcee used her serving skill to start many winning points for KJ and played excellent defense. Congratulations to the KJ 17's.