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ck                                             All  Conference
                                                                                              First Team
                                                                                             )aclyn Thorson
                                       inBlack                                              Chelsea  Bergman
                                                                                             Second  Team
                                                                                             Allison  Leimer
                                                                                           Honorable  Mention
                                                                                              Alicia  Virgl
                                                                                            Chelsea  LaCroix
                                        Hard work returns                                  Wahoo  Newspaper All
                                                                                                Ate~!
                                Lady Raiders to district finals                               First  Team
                                                                                             Jaclyn Thorson
                                        he Lady Raid·    didn't  let up on the  hard
                                                                                             Second  Team
                                        ers  were  de·   work. They continued lift·         Chelsea  Bergman
                                        termined  to     ing  three  times  a  week           Alicia  Virgl
                                                                                          Honorable  Mention
                                        make  it  back   and  were  told  on  count·        Chelsea  LaCroix
                                        to the district   less occasions to "get on          Allison  Leimer
                                        finals   this    the  line."                     Fremont Tribune All  AreQ
                                                                                             Second  Team
                                        season.  So           "We did a lot of pres-         )aclyn Thorson
                            determined  that  they       sure  serving,  where  we        Honorable  Mention
                                                                                              Alicia  Virgl
                            spent  a  good  chunk  of    had  to  run  for  every
                                                                                            Chelsea  Bergman
                            their summer getting into    missed  serve,"  senior         Fremont Tribune  All State
                            shape and conditioning.      Allison  Leimer said,  "We       Honorable  Mention
                                                                                            Chelsea  LaCroix
                                 "We  devoted  about     always  had to hustle and
                                                                                         Omaha World  Herald  All
                            three days out of our week   work hard during drills. If            State
                            to volleyball this summer,"   we  didn't, we  had  to  run    Honorable  Mention
                                                                                             Jaclyn Thorson
                            junior  Jaclyn  Thorson      lots of walls."                    Chelsea  Bergman
                            said. Sunday many of the          At  times  they  were           Alicia  Virgl
                            girls  had  league  games,   exhausted,  and  at  times        Lincoln  Journal Star
                                                                                              First  Team
                            Tuesday  they  had  open     felt  like  throwing  in  the       Jaclyn Thorson
                            gym,  and  Wednesday         towel, but they never for·       Honorable  Mention
                            nights  was  conditioning.   got that they were  work·            Alicia  Vlrgl
                                                                                            Chelsea  LaCroix
                            They also were required to   ing hard for a reason. "We
                            lift weights  three times  a   all worked extra hard be·
                            week.                        cause we wanted to get in
                                 In   addition     to    shape,  which  we  were,"
                            weights, conditioning, and   junior  Chelsea  Bergman
                            open  gym,  many  of the     said.
                            girls attended two differ·        In the end it all paid
                            ent  camps.  "The  team      off,  the
                            camp was in Kearney and      L  a  d  y
                            we  focused  mainly  on      Raiders                          Juniors  Tra<;y  Ballard
                            team  bonding,"  junior      soared                           and  Chelsea  LaCroix
                            Chelsea  LaCroix  said.      through                          wmplete  one  blo<;k
                            During  the  Mead  camp      subdis·                          that  wntributed  to
                            they worked a lot on fun·    tricts,  and  were  back  at     breaking the  rewrd for
                                                                                          highest a<;e blodl. aver-
                            damentals.                   the  district finals  for the
                                                                                          age  per mat<;h.
                                 After the first official   third time in the past four
                            practices  began  in  Au·    years.
                            gust,  the  girls  definitely



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