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2021 Football Volleyball Preview
August 2021
Morley Stanwood football coach has high expectations By John Raffel
Campione can’t wait to get started.
MORLEY – Art Campione is back for his second year as coach with hopes for a more normal year but a successful one for his Morley Stanwood football team.
“Expectations are high and we plan to be playing into November this season,” Campione said. “Our players have put in the work this summer and if our seniors continue to lead us, we will be a team to keep an eye on.
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“Last season highlights were a 4-1 start and second-place finish in the CSAA Silver with a new coach and new system on a team that only started four seniors,” Campione said.
“Leadership will be the strength of this team. Our seniors have put in a lot of work this summer and have led by example. They are the first ones on the practice field and the last ones to leave it. Our players have started to develop that Some key seniors graduated but Campione has several fine players coming brotherhood we have been looking for and they understand that when you help back. our younger players, the program gets “Key athletes this season will be senior linemen Brandon Lintemuth, a returning stronger.” all-conference player that will anchor Campione said his team needs to make both sides of the line of scrimmage for sure it avoids complacency. us,” Campione said. “Senior Kodee Eng“Will our seniors continue to push us strom is a three-year starter on varsity when we have success and how will they that will lead our defense and is also a handle a setback?” he said. returning all-conference player. As for the CSAA “our conference will “Senior Aaron Moore will lead our be strong again and we expect to compete offense from the quarterback position. for a league championship, but our playAaron has done a tremendous job leading ers know that the title runs through Kent our summer workouts and team camps. City in week four,” Campione said. He will be crucial to our success this Campione had to face the COVID fac-
season.”
Morley Stanwood coach Art Campione talks to his players during a summer practice. (Pioneer flle photo/John Raffel)
tor in his first season as Morley Stanwood coach. “Not having COVID restrictions was big in the development of relationships, accountability and brotherhood that de-
velops over the summer without COVID restrictions,” Campione said. “Our players’ mental health is so much better when they are out competing with their friends as opposed to last year when many were sitting home alone.”
Mohawk volleyball team poised to make another deep playoff run By Joe Judd
Morley Stanwood will also be without the likes of Grace Timmers and Isabel Devereaux, who also graduated during the offseason and were key members of the MORLEY — The Morley Stanwood Mohawk front line in recent years. volleyball team is looking to replicate its run of recent success during the upcoming “We will greatly miss them all this year,” 2021 season. Kozuch said. “They were a really fun group Coached by Robin Kozuch, the Mohawks of girls who got along great and complemented each other, both on and off the are coming off of a season that saw them court.” win their conference and district, before coming up just short in the regional finals. Kozuch also said she thinks this year’s edition of her team is eager to improve on This season, Morley Stanwood will be their skills and show off what they can do. without the duo of graduates Landrie LaPreze and Brooke Brauher, who both have “No matter who we put on the floor, they paved the way to so many victories over the know that nothing but their very best effort past four years. will be given,” Kozuch said. With the offseason departures of LaPreze The Mohawk coach said she expects for and Brauher, the Mohawks lost a great deal her team to, once again, be competitive of height from one season to the next. with its conference this season, but pointed to Kent City as being a tough group to deal “This will be the shortest (team) that with again. I have coached in my 21 seasons at MS,” Kozuch said. “Although tiny, they are feisty Kent City’s strength during recent and they work hard; I couldn’t ask for seasons is the primary reason why Kozuch more.” said her team will never take another team joe.judd@pioneergroup.com
Members of the Morley Stanwood volleyball team celebrate after winning a point during a match last season. (Pioneer flle photo)
for granted. “In order to be successful this year, our squad is going to have to be very strong defensively and pass the ball well,” Kozuch
said. “We have talked a lot about embracing roles on our team this season and, whatever that role is, to do it positively and do what they can to help our season be as fun and positive as possible.”
