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Spring head volleyball coach Stephanie Porter and her class meet via Zoom. Porter said it’s challenging that athletes across Spring Independent School District haven’t been able to participate in summer strength and conditioning camp, as of late June.
lessPhoto: Photos Courtesy Of Spring ISDSpring head volleyball coach Stephanie Porter and her class meet via Zoom. Porter said it’s challenging that athletes across Spring Independent School District haven’t been able to participate in summer
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Spring head volleyball coach Stephanie Porter and her class meet via Zoom. Porter said it’s challenging that athletes across Spring Independent School District haven’t been able to participate in summer strength and conditioning camp, as of late June.
lessSpring head volleyball coach Stephanie Porter and her class meet via Zoom. Porter said it’s challenging that athletes across Spring Independent School District haven’t been able to participate in summer
... moreSpring head volleyball coach Stephanie Porter said that as of this week, the program has been approved to begin summer strength and conditioning camp and skills training starting Tuesday, Sept. 8.
She said that not being able to participate in summer activities has been a challenge for district athletes.
“I’m just really excited to get back in the gym with my girls, I know they are excited too,” Porter said. “It’s been way too long and we are ready to start competing again.”
Spring ISD allowed the reigning back-to-back-to-back-to-back unbeaten district champions to resume activities early June, but athletes were only able to get in a few weeks of workouts before the COVID-19 pandemic caused activities to be postponed by the district, June 25, ahead of the July 4 weekend.
Porter said they were shut down for a while after the district had closed off the gym for a second time.
Class 5A and 6A schools that are offering summer activities can officially start practicing, Sept. 7, but since Spring did not join, the University Interscholastic League said the Lady Lions must hold a week of workouts before they can legitimately begin the season.
“So, everything for us is pushed back even more,” Porter said.
Spring cannot begin its first official match until, Sept. 18, per the UIL, now that the district has permitted its high schools to return the week of Sept. 7. Typically, the Lady Lions would be in the full swing of an actual season already, have started tryouts, Aug. 3, followed by scrimmages and then games. Porter said she’s already had to cancel several games.
Spring is unbeaten in district the last four years and will compete in District 14-6A with the Aldine ISD schools in Aldine, Benjamin Davis, Nimitz, MacArthur and Eisenhower for the next two school years. The Lady Lions went 22-16 overall and 14-0 in district in 2019, finishing the season as bi-district finalists after losing vs. Oak Ridge.
Notable returners for the Lady Lions include four-year varsity starter senior middle hitter/outside hitter Keymara Coleman, four-year varsity starter senior middle hitter/outside hitter Casey Sessions and three-year varsity starter senior right-side hitter Haley Wells. Coleman and Sessions are both 2019 first-team All-District selections.
“Unfortunately, we haven’t really had an off season, we haven’t been able see each other,” Porter said. “I do get to do Zoom meetings with my girls but if we can’t workout, we can’t do anything.”
Return to normalcy
The main thing Porter told athletes to do from home while on hiatus is keep their heads up, especially the seniors who didn’t want to see their season come to an end.
“It would just be terrible if they didn’t get that,” Porter said. “I have sent them workouts, stuff that I can do, they can do, with little actual gym equipment because some of them don’t have equipment at all. So, you have to be creative with some of your workouts, you can’t tell them go to the gym to lift weights. …Sit ups and pushups and things like that.”
Aside from virtual meetings, the Lady Lions returned to school, Aug. 17, with the district announcing that the first four weeks would be online learning only.
“Everything is fine as far as online classes, the girls are going, I’m checking in with them several times a week,” Porter said.
Porter said the program still has volleyball class and gets together with the team via online meetings multiple days per week to stay prepared.
Porter said Spring ISD has already come out with safety protocols that students must follow, adding that they’re going to be sanitizing balls, self-regulating, checking temperatures and wearing masks when not actively participating.
“Yes, it’s going to look completely different than it ever has before,” Porter said. “Everybody knows that, and everybody still wants to do that, just so we can continue our season.”
‘Ready to go’
Porter said the team felt like they wanted to return to normal and have a season, prior to the week of Sept. 7, even if it’s condensed. She said the entire varsity schedule has probably changed about five times.
“Even if we just do one round of district, I feel like that’s more than what they would have got if its canceled completely,” Porter said.
Porter said the Lady Lions were simply playing the waiting game prior to the district’s announcement. She said seniors keep telling her “coach I just want to come back.”
She said it was hard watching neighboring districts like Conroe ISD, Cy-Fair ISD and Klein ISD, resume their summer workouts, prior to the week of Sept 7. Those schools will be allowed to start practice Monday, Sept. 7, and can begin scrimmages that Friday.
“We can’t, so that’s very frustrating for us,” Porter said. “Every ISD is different and I completely understand that but it’s so hard to watch other schools getting to start their seasons.”
Porter said the district has been sitting in red on the operational meter and was told that nobody was going to return until they’re at least in orange. As of Friday, the district meter was orange.
“We’re ready to go,” Porter said. “I know the girls are ready, I’m ready, we’re ready for another season.”
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