15U In Progress

Position - Setter

School - Mater East

Favorite Volleyball Memory: A short anecdote or favorite moment in their volleyball journey - Winning our first st george tournament 

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life - Keep your head up high because the ball is always up

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - I try to focus on keeping my GPA above a 3.0 

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball - I like to play video games and draw a bit  

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - I would like to become a professional volleyball player it the future and get into a good college with a nice volleyball team 

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - Bruno Rezende is some one i look up to hes consider one of the best setters

Position - OH/Middle

School - Mater Mtn Vista

Favorite Volleyball Memory: A short anecdote or favorite moment in their volleyball journey - Meeting my new team members and seeing how kind they are

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life - “At the end of the day , if I can say I had fun ,it was a good day”Simone-Biles

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - I would like to become student body vice president.

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  I like reading, swimming, and shopping 

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - Short-term :Play college sports Long -term :become a allergist

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

Flo Hyman 

Position - OH

School - ECTA/Las Vegas

Favorite Volleyball Memory: A short anecdote or favorite moment in their volleyball journey - I have so many but my favorite one is when I kick the ball up and one of my teammate was able to spike it and make a point for us. It was a very nice team work.

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life - You got this.

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - I would like to be a teacher or a pediatric.

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball - My passion is Volleyball hands down but I also play soccer.

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life -My goal is to be a professional volleyball player and be able to inspire others the passion and love for Volleyball. Of course I want to represent my country.

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

One person who I look up to is my uncle Joaquin Rivas. He plays professional soccer for El Paso Locomotive FC and he represents his country El Salvador. The reason that I look up to him is because of his hard work all his stories of how he will always have a ball with him and never giving up on his dreams. 

Position - RS

School -  Las Vegas

Favorite Volleyball Memory: A short anecdote or favorite moment in their volleyball journey - my favorite volleyball memory is my first highschool game to see how much I approved

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life -“We can make our own luck, sometimes its as easy as believing we can. Other times its focusing on what we want.” - Taylor Russel

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - my academic interest in the long term is to become a environmental lawyer.

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  my hobbies outside of volleyball is wrestling and cheer but volleyball as my main

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - short term goals for volleyball is to improve and strengthen my serves and long term would to be able to play at college level. my personal life long term goal is to study abroad and per-sue in my dream career.my short term goal is to graduate with all As and Bs

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

Ella Hemmings

Position - Outside Hitter

School -  Mater East

Favorite Volleyball Memory: A short anecdote or favorite moment in their volleyball journey - Saint George Utah tournaments

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life -“Trust your team. Trust your coach. Trust yourself” 

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - 

Getting A/B honor roll 

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  

Art and music

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - I soon want to be as good as college girls

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

Jenna Howard

Position - Right side Hitter

School -  Mater Bonanza

Favorite Volleyball Memory: A short anecdote or favorite moment in their volleyball journey - When the team went to play sand volleyball and we all got ice cream.

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life -“Don’t wish for it work for it” & “It’s not about being the best it’s about being better than yesterday”

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - 

My academic interest is to stay in all my honors classes and maintain and 4.0 GPA or higher through high school. 

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  

- shopping
- spending time with friends & family 

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - My short term goal is to continue playing volleyball and to get better. My long term goal is to stay in school and become a Nurse.

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

My favorite player is Maddison Skinner she goes to the University of Texas and plays OH. She inspires me because every time I see her play she is always doing her job and works hard.

Position - Setter

School -  Mater East

Favorite Volleyball Memory: My favorite volleyball memory is when we would win in utah and all they girls would hype each other up!

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life - Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know i can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you’ve got to pay the price - Flo Hyman

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - 

I say english is my main interest in school

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  

Flag football, cheer, hanging out with friends, swimming

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - Short terms goal would be being able to get to know the new girls right away and a long term goal would be making it far into volleyball like being able to participate in the olympics 

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

Madisen Skinner

Position - Defensive Specialist

School -  Mater East

Favorite Volleyball Memory: Making some sounds like “ha yay” when we are learning how to hit the ball

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life - It’s never too late to meet yours goals 

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - 

Go to university and be professional in volleyball 

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  

Play Video games

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - Keep learning volleyball to be better, improve my communication skills, have a sports scholarship 

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

Tobías Krick, Kim Yeon-Koung & Annie Drews 

Position - libero 

School -  Mater East

Favorite Volleyball Memory: One of my most favorite memories is when we went to St George for one of our tournaments and won against a 16u team while being 14u.

Personal Motto or Quote: A favorite quote or personal motto related to sports or life - “Practice like you’ve never won, play like you’ve never lost.

Academic Interests: Their academic focus or interests, especially if they are student-athletes - 

To maintain an A/B honor roll throughout my school year.

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  
Spending time with my friends and family, traveling, and shopping.

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - One of my short term goals would be to make my high school varsity team by next school year. My long term goal is to be recruited so i can continue my volleyball career in college.

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

One player I look up to is Lexi Rodriguez 

Position - Outside hitter

School -  Leavitt middle school

Favorite Volleyball Memory: Winning gold at Utah for the second time where we were challenged and tried our hardest.

Personal Motto or Quote: Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop when your done.

Academic Interests: Math and street smarts

Hobbies and Interests: Strength training, running, dance, neuroscience, reading, journaling.

Future Goals: Improve my strength within strength training, become better at my position, become successful financially & academically.

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

I don’t really know any players like that to be honest.

Position - OP, DS

School -  Roy Martin 

Favorite Volleyball Memory: My favorite moment in my volleyball was when I first started and found that love for volleyball and wanting to continue doing it.

Personal Motto or Quote: My favorite overall quote that I think is both sports and life related is "If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it change your attitude." - Maya Angelou

Academic Interests: My academic interest is mainly history. I like history because I like learning about things that happened before us and seeing the mistakes people have made and what we can learn from their mistakes.

Hobbies and Interests: Hobbies and interests outside of volleyball -  

Hobbies I have is playing flag football, reading, coloring, and cooking outside of volleyball.

Future Goals: Short-term and long-term goals related to their volleyball career and personal life - My future goals are to eventually make it pro in volleyball but outside of that a goal I have is to be a psychiatrist and have an overall peaceful and full life.

Favorite Player: College, Professional, or Olympic, someone I look up to - 

A player I look up to a lot in volleyball is Brenda Castillo, she is the liberó of the Dominican volleyball team for the Olympics. I look up to her because of who determined she looks every time she is playing and she doesn't let losses get to her.

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