Seniors’ High School Volleyball Career Coming to an End

Fair Grove Volleyball played Forsyth Thursday October 16th at home, for senior night. The team will be losing two seniors, Lydia Page who plays middle hitter, and is 5 foot 8 inches tall, and Hallie Merisotes who plays right side and middle hitter. Merisotes is 5 foot 7 ½ inches tall.

Lydia talks about the things she is going to miss, she says “How serious they take Fair Grove Volleyball, but she is excited to start a new chapter in her life.” She says that her favorite memory of her whole volleyball career at Fair Grove would be when they won to go to state in the 2013-2014 season. Her favorite part was “Having the pep club there to help support us and being treated like celebrities. She tentatively plans on attending Missouri State University but that she is still undecided.

Hallie also talks about how she is “going to miss how close they are as a team and as a family.” When asked how she feels about graduation coming up soon she stated, “beyond excited, Like can we graduate tomorrow?”  She plans on attending either Mizzou or Avila to study criminology and justice. She also said that beating El Dorado springs to go to state is the best memory of her career, because the school had an amazing send off for her and her team as well as the outstanding fans at all of their games and she hopes to be going again this year.

Head coach, Tonya peck stated that, “ both Lydia and Hallie have been a big threat at the net for them this season. Their net play, especially their blocking, will be greatly missed.” She also explained how it is always hard to replace the seniors and this year is no exception. “ Blocking is more of a mind set and sometimes that is hard to teach. Lydia and Hallie will definitely leave a hole for someone to fill.” These two girls have helped their team to having a winning record of 23-6-1.

The Lady Eagles had a clean sweep over forsyth for their senior night. C team, JV and Varsity all won in two sets. “It was definitely a good game to finish our regular season,” stated Hallie. The eagles will be playing in districts October 20th-24th at Strafford. They will be playing Monday at 6:00pm against Pleasant Hope.