{"id":12843,"date":"2021-02-16T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=12843"},"modified":"2021-02-18T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:41:57","slug":"mustang-volleyball-the-start-of-a-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/12843","title":{"rendered":"Mustang Volleyball: The Start of a New Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Hailey Barrus-<\/strong>The year of the coronavirus has left Morningside College in a constant state of change. The change did not stop with the pandemic however. The Mustang volleyball program for both men\u2019s and women\u2019s got new head coaches as well. First year women\u2019s coach, Jessica Squier, and men\u2019s head coach, Theison Anderson, are currently tackling their first year as the heads of their teams amidst the COVID craziness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mustang women concluded their first half of their season in the fall with just under a .500 average winning record  with a 10-11 record. This scored the women\u2019s team a ticket to tournament play that will begin in the Spring of 2021 due to COVID. Head coach, Squier, is eager to get back out on the court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year was unlike any other for coaching. There were parts that had easy solutions such as having my girls wear masks on buses, constantly sanitizing, and quarantining if they are sick. However, I was hired on as the head coach only weeks before the pandemic hit back in February of last year, so my biggest challenge at the beginning of our season was getting to know the girls in a much different way than I was expecting\u201d, Squier stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Squier has been coaching volleyball for the past decade, and was a Morningside graduate who played for the mustang team years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy hope for the program\u2019s future is to continue to grow, use better recruitment tactics, and ultimately win that GPAC title\u201d, Squier continued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the men\u2019s team their season is in full swing right now, Coach Anderson was introduced to Morningside College through Coach Squier and the dynamic duo also assistant coach for each other\u2019s programs when they are available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is my first year taking on that \u2018head coach\u2019 role so I am constantly learning, and it has been so beneficial to have Jessica with me along the way. She is more than an assistant coach in my eyes. She is a friend and mentor so having her on this journey with me has been very helpful\u201d, Anderson said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mustang men are in the middle of their season and are currently 0-2 in the GPAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a young team, and moving forward I would like to make men\u2019s volleyball more of a well known sport within the GPAC and midwest so recruitment for us is going to be key.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams are fronted by a sole senior, Krista Zenk for the women’s team and Kyle Cox for the men\u2019s program. Both programs are young with a lot of potential moving forward both of the coaches stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Hailey Barrus-The year of the coronavirus has left Morningside College in a constant state of change. The change did not stop with the pandemic however. The Mustang volleyball program for both men\u2019s and women\u2019s got new head coaches as well. First year women\u2019s coach, Jessica Squier, and men\u2019s head coach, Theison Anderson, are currently…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12848,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions\/12848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}