New Times for Newport Match

The Varsity match Friday against Newport HS has been moved to 6pm instead of 7:15pm. The JV match will be at 3:45pm instead of 6pm. That means there will be no admission charged for the JV match.

Varsity Beats K-M in Four

The Kentlake Varsity beat Kent-Meridian on Tuesday 3-1. Kentlake was led by Senior Outside Hitters Melissa Kozy with 16 kills and Sarah Ralph with 15. Senior Middle Blocker Mackenzie Kyle added 12 kills. Senior Setter Holly Marx had 42 assists and Libero Jenn Barber had 15 digs.

In earlier action, the Kentlake JV team was swept by K-M, 2-0.

Food Needed for Tournament on Saturday

This Saturday is the big Kent Classic, the premier early season volleyball tournament in Washington State. The tournament is hosted jointly by Kentlake and Kentwood. We need volunteers to bring food for the Hospitality Room. Please sign up online or send an email to "kentlakevb at comcast.net"

Help Still Needed On Tuesday

There are still a number of jobs that need to be done for the home contests against Kent Meridian tomorrow. Please volunteer to help out. We especially need JV parents to help during the Varsity games. Do not worry if you don't know how to do a job, most are very easy and we can easily provide training. The tough jobs already have people working them, so please help.

Freshman and Sophomore Schedules Up

The Freshman and Sophomore schedules are up on the consolidated calendar page. You need to be VERY careful in reading the Sophomore and Freshman games as there are some very strange things in there. For instance, on October 8th, the Kentlake Sophomore team plays the Auburn Riverside Sophomore team (known as "AR C" on the schedule). No problem there. However, they play each other at Auburn High School. So, please be careful about locations as this sort of thing happens several times during the year.

A note on times: you will notice that the Freshman and Sophomore games will often start at 5:45pm and the JV game will then start at 6pm. Seem strange? However, there is a very valid reason for it, and it actually benefits the parents for once. Under SPSL rules we have to charge admission for any Varsity contest, or sub-Varsity contest that proceeds a Varsity contest, that starts at 6pm or later. We are prohibited from charging admission for any sub-Varsity contest that starts before 6pm (maybe Varsity too, I can't remember). So, the spectators for the JV game would have to pay admission, but not the spectators for the Sophomore or Freshman game that starts at 5:45pm. However, it the game had started at 6pm, and there was a Varsity contest for any schoool after that, you would have to pay.

Online Calendars

You can download calenders for September and October from the website. Highlights of the season include the Kent Classic in September and the Spokane Crossover in October for the Varsity team and the Sumner JV Tournament for the JV team. Districts this year are at the Kitsap Pavilion in Silverdale. And, of course, the State Tournament, bumped one week for a ventriloquist, at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.

Regular season highlights include the non-league match with Kentwood at Kentlake on September 22nd and the league contests at Kentwood on October 27th and Senior Night against Auburn Riverside on October 21st. Those will all be huge matches.

The season starts very late, but there are five matches plus the Kent Classic tournament in the first nine days of the season. That will be a lot of volleyball in a short period, so use those down days well.

2008 JV Team Roster

Juniors

• Ginnie Weiss
• Michele Dunn (C)
  
• Katie Golbienko
• Kacey Kretzler (C)
  
• Katie Phillips

Sophomores

• Julie Bolstad
• Alli Gladwell
• Jerilyn Peko
• Becca Kozy

Freshmen

• Jessica Amoth
• Kristen O'Connell
• Natalie Berube

(C): Denotes Captain

2008 Sophomore Team Roster

Sophomores

• Katie Shelton
• Stephanie Gary
• Kayla Gregory
• Taylor Sponholz
• Sabra Wilson

Freshmen

• Courtney Weiss
• Jessie Peterson
• Kalayna Foronda
• Haeley Dyrdahl
• Kaitlyn Miclancic

2008 Freshman Team Roster

• Danielle Radowick, MB
• Adessa Ulm, DS
• Bridget Bringmann, OH
• Maddie Higgins, OH
• Alinane Changa, OH
• McKenzie Hume, MB
• Kelly Sutton, OH
• Selena Butler, S
• Katie Wilson, RS

Where are the schedules?

Parents of players on the Freshman and Sophomore teams might, quite rightly, be wondering where the schedules for those teams are. Unfortunately, how many schools have Freshman and "C" teams changes from year to year (plus in some years Kentwood has two "C" teams and in others only one). Therefore the SPSL has to wait until after rosters have been finalized and the number of teams is known before they can develop the schedule. The past two years the Freshman and "C" teams have run a joint schedule since there were so few schools with "C" teams. Last year it was only Kentlake, Kentwood, Kentridge and Auburn Riverside with "C" teams. This year Kent Meridian is hoping to have all four also. Of course, not all of the schools are four year schools (and therefore don't have any Freshman teams) and some only have JV and Varsity teams.

We are very lucky that at least three of the four Kent schools have at least four volleyball teams - that is definitely the exception, not the rule, in this State.