{"id":1310161,"date":"2019-05-10T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/glenwood-volleyballs-hunter-signs-with-linfield-college\/"},"modified":"2019-05-10T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T04:44:00","slug":"glenwood-volleyballs-hunter-signs-with-linfield-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/glenwood-volleyballs-hunter-signs-with-linfield-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood volleyball\u2019s Hunter signs with Linfield College"},"content":{"rendered":"
Glenwood Springs senior Brooke Hunter signed her national letter of intent to Linfield College last Friday inside Chavez-Spencer Gymnasium. Hunter was joined by her mother Jeannine, and father Eric.<\/strong>
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Following a strong senior season with the Glenwood Springs Demons girls volleyball team, senior Brooke Hunter heads to Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where she\u2019ll play volleyball for the rebuilding Wildcats\u2019 program.<\/p>\n

Hunter never really had plans to play college volleyball, at least until Linfield head coach Josh Davis reached out to her last fall near the end of the Demons\u2019 season and expressed interest in signing the senior defensive specialist\/libero.<\/p>\n

\u201cI received a letter from Coach Josh inviting me to a clinic in Salt Lake City, so I reached out to him and it just went from there,\u201d said Hunter. \u201cI wasn\u2019t originally planning on playing college volleyball, but once I received interest from coaches, it was an easy decision. It wasn\u2019t really a hectic recruiting process; everything was really smooth. I really enjoyed the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her senior season under second-year head coach Kehua Rust, Hunter played 44 sets for the Demons, recording 104 serve receives, 75 digs, and 5 aces as Glenwood finished 11-12 on the year, including 6-6 in the tough 4A Western Slope League. Hunter played a role in the revitalization of the Demons\u2019 program after Rust took over. Playing in an uber-competitive program like Glenwood\u2019s helped Hunter prepare for the step up in competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were so many good players at Glenwood, so the level of competition really prepared me,\u201d said Hunter. \u201cThe mantra of \u2018no ball hits the floor\u2019 really pushed me to be better; it made me want to be a much more competitive person. Just the overall hard work, too, really pushed me in these last few years. You had to fight for the position you\u2019re going to be in, so that really pushed me to another level and really helped me unlock who I was as a player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Hunter heads to McMinnville, where she\u2019ll play under Davis, who is going through a similar rebuilding process with the Wildcats. Having a chance to lay a foundation with a collegiate program is something that really piqued Hunter\u2019s interest in the program, causing her to eventually sign on with a program 1,180 miles away.<\/p>\n

Last season, the Wildcats finished 6-18 on the year under Davis and assistant coach Meaghan Angel, including a 1-15 mark in the Northwest Conference. Ironically, Hunter will go up against former Glenwood Springs teammate Baylee Johnson for the next four years after Johnson signed with Pacific Lutheran University in the fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really liked the atmosphere there,\u201d said Hunter. \u201cI just went to a camp with them, and a lot of the girls that signed with them were there, so it was a great chance to meet them all and get to know then. I really liked the town, and Coach Josh is a new head coach, so he\u2019s trying to leave his mark on the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s being rebuilt and I wanted a chance to be part of that rebuild and help establish a culture and grow the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Off the court, Hunter plans on studying law at Linfield, which should put her on a path toward being an attorney later on in life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just really like studying law,\u201d said Hunter. \u201cIt\u2019s something that really interests me. Learning the law is fascinating, and we finally got a civics law class at Glenwood this year, and taking that has really unlocked some potential for me. I\u2019m just really excited to get there and get going.\u201d<\/p>\n

jcarney@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Glenwood Springs senior Brooke Hunter signed her national letter of intent to Linfield College last Friday inside Chavez-Spencer Gymnasium. Hunter was joined by her mother Jeannine, and father Eric.Provided Following a strong senior season with the Glenwood Springs Demons girls volleyball team, senior Brooke Hunter heads to Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where she\u2019ll play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1310161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 06:31:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}