Two Panther Teams Reach CSS Competition— Girls Volleyball Team Wins CSS; Sean Harris Runs at State X-Country WPS’s Girls Varsity Volleyball team pulled out all the stops, winning the Central Coast Division 5 championship, and the first of three matches in the Northern California championship. Seeded sixth out of six teams in Division 5, they demonstrated terrific team spirit and commitment to win the CCS title, said team coach Rick Riebhoff. “Even during vacation breaks, you couldn’t stop most of this team from practicing,” Coach Riebhoff remarked. It is the kind of drive that took this small campus’s team to a state championship in 2000 and a state runner-up victory in 2001. This team may also be unique in having three pairs of sisters, including one set of twins—Katie and Alexa Zappas.
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Exuberant players celebrate a hard-fought victory early in the CCS playoffs. They are (from top row left) Coach Kendall Holland, Coach Megan Andrews, Katie Zappas, Alexa Zappas, Tania Valetsky, Katie Lampert, Laura Trudelle, Ensci Nemeth, Chrissa Trudelle, Coach Floyd Alexander; (from bottom row left) Cassey Limgenco, Lauren Hecht, Leila Novotny; (on the floor) Kai Novotny, Head Coach Rick Riebhoff. Coach Kendall Holland, now a senior at Stanford, was a member of the 2000 state champion team.
