Beating the Odds A New Era

BY EMMY WAKE [sports editor]

At the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, Crown Point High School announced that they were to have two new sports teams: the girls wrestling team, which we saw in action this past winter, and the boys volleyball team, which is the newest spring sport.

Having both of these teams join our athletics means that this year will go down in history. As junior Gabe Vivo envisions the years to come, he imagines that future students of CPHS will look at the picture of the first CPHS boys volleyball team with adoration and think, “Wow, that was the first boys volleyball team.”

Boys volleyball may just be beginning, but we’d love to see how the rest of the season and coming years will pan out for this sport.

Murphy said, “The finals match was best two out of three, and I won the first match but lost the second match, so it came down to that [last] match. I was pretty nervous going into the third round because I let the second round slip away from me, so I was like, ‘I need to get this done.’”

The match ends when you get a lead by ten points, as a sort of “mercy rule”. Obtaining that many points without your opponent getting any is difficult, but

Murphy did it anyway. She obtained two points at the end, winning the match.

“I remember it being 8-0, and I had a turn locked up, so I knew it was happening. I was really happy and really excited. I’m really grateful for my parents and coaches and teammates that helped me get there,” Murphy said.