Prep Dig will be getting to know some of the teams that we’ve been covering as well as teams that will be heading to the Prep Dig Gauntlet.
Central Iowa Select
17M out of Des Moines, Iowa is comprised of some of the top athletes in Central Iowa with multiple players who have state tournament experience and those with some hidden talents. Get to know a little more about CIS 17M who will be competing at the Prep Dig Gauntlet as well as the USAV National Tournament in Indianapolis
1. Explain why you love your team
2. What motivates your team/you
3. Share a fun random fact about yourself
Sam Hoover
1. They always make practice fun to come to and every time time we’re to together it’s not only helping us grow skills but also a family like bond.
2. Our motivation is each other. We want to play good with and for each other to make others look their best when colleges are watching.
3. This is my second year of playing volleyball.
Olivia Nahas
1. I love my team because everyone is nice on and off the court and always pushes themselves to do better.
2. what motivates me is not letting my team down, they work hard in practice so I try and work even harder.
3. My favorite color is purple.
Olivia Curry
1. I love our team because we are all super positive and are completely drama free. We are like a big happy family.
2. What motivates me is my own personal standard I set for myself and wanting to be the best player on the court.
3. A random fact about myself is that a can make a 3-leaf clover with my tongue and then I can also make it move.
Payton Lombardi
1. My team is like my family. They support me with everything.
2. My mom and brothers.
3. I have the smallest hands on the team.
Morgan Wessels
Curry (Valley), Nelson (Waukee), and Spann (Valley) for CIS
1. I love this team because of all the great people and friendships I’ve made.
2 I think this team motivates each other and really does best when we are all playing for each other.
3 My fun fact is that I like to crochet.
Calea Jones
1. I love my team because we are all like sisters and even though most of us don’t go to the same school, we are so close and can tell each other anything. Everyone on my team is hilarious and different in their own way and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I love them all!!
2. What motivates my team and I is our competitive drive to go out there and give it our all. As this season has progressed we’ve really learned that we just need to go out there and have fun and don’t think, just play!! That’s what really helps us stay positive on the court, because no game will ever go perfectly, but all that matters is the next point, so we have to be able to bounce back.
3. I’ve had hearing aids since I was three, so I actually read lips when watching movies and when people are talking to me more than I hear.
Anna Marvelli
1. I love my team because they have become my best friends, and they aren’t just my best friends they are family. When you spend so much time with people, they become your family and I would do anything for them.
2. I am motivated by my coaches to be the best I can be and also motivated by my teammates. I want to be the best I can be for my teammates, so that they always feel like I am putting in 100% effort.
3. A fun fact about me I took ballet for 7 years and have played the violin for 11 years and still do.
Kate Nelson
1. I love my team because we can have fun on and off the court. We are like sisters.
2. What motivates my team and I is our motto “With each other, for each other”. We play for our teams future and each players future. We all want the best for our teammates.
3. A fun fact about me Is my two dogs are my best friends.
Jacey Spann with the swing.
Liz Pierce
1. I love my team because they are a great group of girls who made me feel included from the day I joined CIS. Not only that they are all amazing athletes and talented people.
2. What motivates me is wanting to compete well for my team and give my best when I am on the court. Also my parents who have blessed me with so many opportunities to do the sport that I love.
3. A random fact about me is I started playing volleyball when I was in 2nd grade.
Jacey Spann
1. I love my team because they feel like a second family to me. I’m able to laugh with them on and off the court and we all have good chemistry.
2. A thing that motives me/the team is to get nationals. That has always been our goal from the beginning of the season and to finally achieve that goal gives us even more of a drive.
3. Fun random fact about me would be that i can jump high.