Friday, August 29, 2008

Cutthroat volleyball ready for all comers

Season starts Tuesday


Community School volleyball coach Reamy Goodwin has welcomed 12 girls to the 2008 edition of Cutthroat volleyball.

It will be a young team, but the girls will have excellent instruction with seventh-year coach Goodwin and former star Albertson College of Idaho hitter Kristyn Price Rudland, who is the junior varsity coach.

Matches begin Tuesday, Sept. 2 against Magic Valley Christian in Twin Falls, with the home openers Thursday and Friday, Sept. 4-5 against Murtaugh and the Twin Falls sophomores with coach B.J. Price, Kristyn's brother.

Goodwin said, "I like this group. They're young and willing." He has no seniors and two juniors, 5-7 outside hitter Morgan Pintler and 5-3 back row Tate Reed-McDorman.

The three sophomores are outside hitter Maggie Flood, 5-8 middle Natalie Goddard and setter Julie Doan.

Freshmen are 5-11 middle Sophia Carkonen, setter Meredith Pintler, Isobel Pollock, Barrett Brown, Camille Bourret, Emily Gillespie and Morgan Roudabush.

Goodwin acknowledged that the Cutthroats (10-10, 3-2 for 4th place in the 2007 Northside Conference tournament) lost a lot from last season. But he added the new seven-school Sawtooth Conference of Fourth District 1A Division 2 teams won't miss having Shoshone.

"I'm glad to see Shoshone go. My hope is that the addition of Murtaugh and Magic Valley Christian gives us a couple of schools we can compete with. But it opens the door a little more for Richfield," he said.

Shoshone, a traditional Northside power, moved to the new Snake River Conference of bigger Division 1 schools. It leaves the Sawtooth with The Community School, Carey, Richfield, Dietrich, Camas County of Fairfield, Murtaugh and Magic Valley Christian.

Richfield has won 26 consecutive Northside Conference regular-season and tourney matches, and has won two straight league titles. Shoshone preceded Richfield as the league dynasty, with three Northside titles from 2003-05 and also the 2005 state crown.

Goodwin added it should be fun coaching against the new Camas County volleyball coach and athletic director Ben Stroud. Stroud was coaching Dietrich and Goodwin helping with The Community School volleyball team back in 1985.

Stroud went on to win 11 national titles in 22 years coaching at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. He was fired from that position in August 2006 amid allegations of recruiting-rule violations.

Stroud, however, denied the allegations and in December 2007 was awarded $357,000 in a settlement stemming from his firing, the Associated Press reported.




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