SSAC News
Thu, Aug 14, 2003 - [Volleyball]
Inaugural team includes local residents as coach and middle blocker
Reinhardt will add women’s volleyball to its intercollegiate offerings this fall. This new sport increases the College’s athletic offering to 10.
Amy
Saxon, a Reinhardt and Cherokee High School graduate and native of
Canton, Ga., was named head volleyball coach and athletic assistant in
June of 2003, and 2003 Woodstock High School graduate Kerstin Edberg of
Woodstock, Ga., will play middle blocker.Saxon, an admissions
counselor at Reinhardt since the fall of 2000, is excited her change in
roles and about the opportunities ahead for the team. She will welcome
eight athletes to preseason workouts and practice on August 17. The
athletes’ hometowns span northwest Georgia from Rossville, Dalton and
Temple to Marietta, Kennesaw and Alpharetta, Ga.
“I expect this year to focus on learning and developing,” Saxon said. “As a first-year team, I am confident that we will work hard to be competitive. The players are so very enthusiastic and ready to go. They are already hungry for it."
Edberg echoes her coach’s sentiments. A biology major, she is excited “but kind of nervous.”
“It’s big time in college, it’s not like high school – it’s just more serious in college,” Edberg said. Saying she had hoped to play collegiate volleyball, Reinhardt’s program had special appeal.
“It’s something new, and it’s at a small school so I figured it would get a lot of support from the students and faculty,” she said.
Though she lives close enough to commute, Edberg is also looking forward to living on Reinhardt’s main campus in northwestern Cherokee County in Waleska, Ga., because she’ll get the opportunity to meet more people.
“You’ll get close-knit with everybody around you, and [it’s easier for] you have your own group to hang out with,” she said.
College administrators spent the 2002-03 year evaluating the addition of volleyball, and the College’s trustees gave the proposal final approval at their May 2003 meeting. The sport of volleyball was selected because of its popularity among potential students, its crowd appeal and its modest cost for recruiting, travel, equipment and uniforms.
The regular volleyball season in the Georgia-Alabama-Carolina (GAC) Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) begins August 29 and concludes on November 8 with postseason play on November 14 and 15 at Brewton Parker College in Mt. Vernon, Ga. Reinhardt’s schedule includes such well-known opponents as North Georgia College & State University (Dahlonega, Ga.); Shorter College (Rome, Ga.); Southern Polytechnic State University (Marietta, Ga.) and Brenau University (Gainesville, Ga.).
The other Georgia institutions in its ten-member conference include Emmanuel College (Franklin Springs, Ga.) and Georgia Southwestern State University (Americus, Ga.). Reinhardt also fields men’s and women's soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s tennis, and men’s golf.
Reinhardt will add women’s volleyball to its intercollegiate offerings this fall. This new sport increases the College’s athletic offering to 10.
Amy
Saxon, a Reinhardt and Cherokee High School graduate and native of
Canton, Ga., was named head volleyball coach and athletic assistant in
June of 2003, and 2003 Woodstock High School graduate Kerstin Edberg of
Woodstock, Ga., will play middle blocker.Saxon, an admissions
counselor at Reinhardt since the fall of 2000, is excited her change in
roles and about the opportunities ahead for the team. She will welcome
eight athletes to preseason workouts and practice on August 17. The
athletes’ hometowns span northwest Georgia from Rossville, Dalton and
Temple to Marietta, Kennesaw and Alpharetta, Ga.
“I expect this year to focus on learning and developing,” Saxon said. “As a first-year team, I am confident that we will work hard to be competitive. The players are so very enthusiastic and ready to go. They are already hungry for it."
Edberg echoes her coach’s sentiments. A biology major, she is excited “but kind of nervous.”
“It’s big time in college, it’s not like high school – it’s just more serious in college,” Edberg said. Saying she had hoped to play collegiate volleyball, Reinhardt’s program had special appeal.
“It’s something new, and it’s at a small school so I figured it would get a lot of support from the students and faculty,” she said.
Though she lives close enough to commute, Edberg is also looking forward to living on Reinhardt’s main campus in northwestern Cherokee County in Waleska, Ga., because she’ll get the opportunity to meet more people.
“You’ll get close-knit with everybody around you, and [it’s easier for] you have your own group to hang out with,” she said.
College administrators spent the 2002-03 year evaluating the addition of volleyball, and the College’s trustees gave the proposal final approval at their May 2003 meeting. The sport of volleyball was selected because of its popularity among potential students, its crowd appeal and its modest cost for recruiting, travel, equipment and uniforms.
The regular volleyball season in the Georgia-Alabama-Carolina (GAC) Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) begins August 29 and concludes on November 8 with postseason play on November 14 and 15 at Brewton Parker College in Mt. Vernon, Ga. Reinhardt’s schedule includes such well-known opponents as North Georgia College & State University (Dahlonega, Ga.); Shorter College (Rome, Ga.); Southern Polytechnic State University (Marietta, Ga.) and Brenau University (Gainesville, Ga.).
The other Georgia institutions in its ten-member conference include Emmanuel College (Franklin Springs, Ga.) and Georgia Southwestern State University (Americus, Ga.). Reinhardt also fields men’s and women's soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s tennis, and men’s golf.
