Volleyball, 2007

Coached by Rick Carman

Bears Volleyball Places 4th at Regions

The Bears volleyball team fell short of bid to the state tournament after a 3rd place match loss to Wasilla on Saturday afternoon at the Northern Lights Conference tournament. While upset with the loss, the team found solace in the barriers it broke, namely the win in the first round against Homer and the advancement to the 3rd place game after coming from behind in the match against SoHi.

Middle Hitter Alysa Horn was voted to the All Region First Team; Outside Hitter Linzee Burcham was voted to the All Region Second Team. Outside Hitter Jessie Keplinger received the All Region Good Sport Award. Read about the rest of the tournament on the Volleyball newspage

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Last home game, October 26-27

Last games of the regular season are upcoming at home against Homer on Friday and Saturday. Friday night will be Family Night; we will recognize the families of the players for their support throughout the season. Saturday will be Senior Day when we will be recognizing the 5 seniors playing for the Bears this year. We're hoping to have a large turnout both days. Friday's games only will count towards the region standings.

Schedule of games:Friday;4:00 C-team; 5:30 JV; 7:00 Varsity

Saturday: 12:00 C-team blue/gold scrimmage; 1:00 JV blue/gold scrimmage

2:00 C-team; 3:30 JV; 5:00 Varsity

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Mixed results this weekend Kodiak Bears Volleyball defeats Grace Christian, lose to Colony

The Bears varsity volleyball team started the extended weekend in grand fashion by defeating the Grace Christian Grizzles in 4 games 25-19, 13-25, 25-20, and 25-23. The match against the Grizzlies was a non-conference match. But, we dropped two matches to Colony over the weekend, although we did manage to take a couple of games from them. The girls played better on Saturday, than on Friday night, after we had a chance to walk through defensive changes that needed to be made.Read complete details on the latest news page.

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Bears V-Ballers split on the Peninsula

The Kodiak High School split a pair of matches on the peninsula this weekend, October 6th &7th, against southern region opponents SoHi and Kenai. On Friday, the Bears faced Soldotna, loosing the match 3-1. The Bears started slow against an aggressive Star offense that featured middle hitter Paige Blackburn. Loosing the first two games 25-17, 25-19, the Bears battled back to take game 3, 25-21 behind a resurrected defense.

On Saturday, the Bears had an early wake up call against the Kenai Kardinals as the varsity match kicked off at 11:30 a.m. Facing a season of slow starts on Saturday's, the Bears kicked into gear early and never looked back, winning the match 3 – 0. After a tough match against SoHi Friday night, the Bears defense found new life working hard to keep the ball off the floor on their side of the court as the offense worked on new plays installed during the week before. Find the stats, and read the complete story on Coach Carman's page, or on KMXT.

Bears Volleyball Battles Hard in West Spike-tacular

After a enjoying a weekend off, the Bears Volleyball team continued on the 3rd weekend of its 6-week road trip traveling to West Anchorage to participate in the high powered West Spike-tacular September 28-29th. The 14-team invitational tournament included most of the Anchorage schools and schools from the Mat-Su Valley.

Despite a hard fought effort throughout the 12 games played on the first day of round robin pool play, the Bears ended the day at 3-9, seeding sixth in their pool. Teams within the Bears pool included Service, Dimond, Lathrop, Eagle River, Colony, and West. Read the rest of the story on Coach Carman's newspage.

Bears place Second at Valdez!

Bears Volleyball finishes weekend 2-1

Following a win at Anchorage Christian on Friday, September 7th, Kodiak rolled into Palmer for 2 important region matches. Friday vs. Palmer: Kodiak win: 3-1. Saturday vs. Palmer: Kodiak loss 0-3.

Bears sweep Panthers Friday, 8-31;
Panthers return the favor Saturday

It was a mixed bag of results in volleyball action over the Labor Day weekend, as Kodiak won Friday matches,25-20, 25-10, and 25-20; Skyview swept Saturday, 25-18, 25-14, and 25-18. 

Bears Split the Weekend with the Warriors

There was a Northern Lights Conference victory at the Kodiak High School gym, August 24th, with Kodiak winning the matches, 25-19, 25-19, 21-25, 29-27. Wasilla responded the next night with a 25-20, 18-25, 25-23, 25-23 conference victory.