The Pace Volleyball team finished their season on Nov. 15 with a loss to Merrimack College, ending their season with a record of 4-26.
With high hopes set at the beginning of the season, the Setters look at this end with disappointment and a bit of shock.
“Honestly, this was completely unexpected,” freshman business major Miki Carver said. “We all had such high expectations individually so to end the season like this, completely shocked us.”
Head Coach Karrin Moore expressed a desire to have finished the season with more wins, but chooses to look at the bright side of things stating that she was “happy with how hard the girls worked on and off the court.” and that “our record doesn’t show the work everyone put in.”
Looking at the team roster, it can be seen that all the players on the team this season where either freshman or sophomores, and one can’t help but wonder if that ended up being a factor.
“It’s hard to say if having upper class men would have helped our season or not, but having more girls playing in positions they were used to would have been more helpful,” Moore said.
Carver sees things a bit differently, saying that the team’s youthfulness was “definitely something to be taken into consideration.”
“We really came from all over the place, so we didn’t have as much time to really build that team chemistry,” Carver said.
But now with one year under their belts, the Setters look to the spring as a time where, according to Coach Moore, they can work to “refine their individual skills and learn to work well as a team.”
The Setters will also look to new recruits, such as Sydney Lecker from Chatfield High School, to join the returning players in order to bring more talent and versatility to the team.
Lecker was signed to a national letter of intent for the 2014-15 academic year and is someone that Coach Moore believes will “be a solid player who will help us offensively from day one.”
For now, the Setters will continue to build team chemistry, while honing their skills as they wait for the 2014 season.