{"id":800724,"date":"2019-10-25T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T22:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373537"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T22:10:02","slug":"summit-volleyball-loses-to-steamboat-on-senior-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-volleyball-loses-to-steamboat-on-senior-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit volleyball loses to Steamboat on Senior Night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Summit High School Tigers’ varsity volleyball team takes on the Palisade Bulldogs at Summit High on Sept. 28.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Despite a straight-set loss to Steamboat, Thursday\u2019s Senior Night and ceremony for the Summit High School varsity volleyball team (3-12) put into perspective what this senior group means for an improving Tigers program.<\/p>\n

The 2019 seniors will be remembered as a group that helped to improve the quality of volleyball and bring together younger and older players in head coach Kelly Schneweis\u2019 second season.<\/p>\n

Kyla Hildebrand was one of those seniors leaders. And her inability to choose one underclassmen to read a goodbye statement to her, as part of the Tigers\u2019 Senior Night ceremony, speaks to the bond the program has cultivated this season.<\/p>\n

Each year before the Senior Night game, the ceremony involves an underclassman player reading a prewritten statement to a departing senior. While the senior stands beside their immediate family, gifts and flowers in hand, the underclassman they selected describes what the senior meant to them.<\/p>\n

Hildebrand couldn\u2019t decided between Bella Spear and Ashlyn Mullaly. So she chose both.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our last hurrah, saying our thank-you\u2019s for the season and our goodbyes, as well,\u201d Hildebrand said about the ceremony. \u201cIt\u2019s something we can share together, all of the seniors. We\u2019ve been together through fifth-grade volleyball, so this is just a way for us to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the emotional ceremony, the Tigers dropped the first set 25-19 before scrapping back and going toe-to-toe with Steamboat (9-12) in the second and third sets.<\/p>\n

In the second set, the Tigers took a 7-6 lead after a spike by senior Courtney Brown, Summit\u2019s first real lead of the game. Then Summit junior Mackenzie Westenskow had a spike for an 11-7 lead that forced a Steamboat timeout.<\/p>\n

Summit senior Rose Kent had a spike of her own to give the Tigers a 16-10 lead later in the second set, a few points before Hildebrand mustered a great dig to lead to a Brown spike and 19-13 lead. Steamboat then rallied to take a 22-21 lead before senior Taryn Wade made a crucial play to tie it at 22-22. Ultimately, the Tigers lost the second set 23-22.<\/p>\n

In the third set, Summit\u2019s highlight was an 11-9 lead on a spike by senior Anna Confer that Steamboat wasn\u2019t able to dig. Steamboat won the third set 25-23 to win the match.<\/p>\n

After the game, Schneweis was complimentary of Summit\u2019s blocking and passing, pointing to her middles \u2014 Wade, junior Olivia Brewer and senior Christina Koetteritz \u2014 for reading Steamboat\u2019s setter well.<\/p>\n

With just three games and a tournament remaining in Summit\u2019s season \u2014 including one final home game at 1 p.m. Saturday versus Rifle \u2014 Schneweis is proud of the foundation, anchored around their defensive skill, the seniors laid for the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got some really, really great defenders,\u201d Schneweis said. \u201cAnd off the court, this group is welcoming. As a whole, I think they\u2019ve brought the entire program together. We do a lot of upper- and lowerclassmen stuff together, and the senior leadership built the excitement and spirit of volleyball as a whole. Hopefully that will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Summit High School Tigers’ varsity volleyball team takes on the Palisade Bulldogs at Summit High on Sept. 28.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Despite a straight-set loss to Steamboat, Thursday\u2019s Senior Night and ceremony for the Summit High School varsity volleyball team (3-12) put into perspective what this senior group means for an improving […]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:25:23","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}