Rosters announced for 2023 NDHSCA/Optimists’ volleyball all-star games

FARGO — Rosters have been introduced Friday for the 2023 North Dakota Excessive Faculty Coaches Affiliation/Optimists’ volleyball all-star video games.

Twenty-four seniors from throughout the state will take the courtroom for one remaining time on Monday, June 12 and Tuesday, June 13 within the matches at Fargo North and Bismarck Legacy.

The format for this 12 months’s all-star collection has modified, with groups now not being break up into East and West. As an alternative, there might be a purple workforce and a blue workforce with taking part gamers chosen to every squad by means of a draft.

Taking part gamers are chosen by coaches throughout the state.

This 12 months’s rosters characteristic seven gamers from the Fargo and West Fargo metro areas. That group is led by Class A state champion West Fargo Sheyenne with three — rightside hitter Khloe Brown and outdoors hitters Reagan Bogenreif and Kailee Waasdorp.

Fargo South has two gamers representing the Bruins in center hitter Emma Dalby and outdoors hitter Genevieve Gard. West Fargo setter Olivia Soine and Central Cass libero Tori Richter have been additionally chosen to play.

Brown and Bogenreif will play for the purple workforce whereas Waasdorp will face off towards her Mustangs teammates taking part in for the blue workforce.

Brown earned second workforce all-state and all-Jap Dakota Convention honors final season. She ranked third within the Sheyenne kills division with 193 and was the Mustangs’ second-best blocker with 67 en path to this system’s first-ever state championship.

Bogenreif had the ultimate kill within the Class A title recreation —

a chaotic, late-night, five-set victory over two-time defending champion Bismarck Century

— and completed the season with 291 kills. The Valley Metropolis State commit was a primary workforce all-state choice final season and is a two-time all-EDC honoree.

Waasdorp, a Minnesota Crookston commit, is a two-time all-state participant, incomes first workforce honors in 2022 after being named to the second workforce in 2021. Additionally a two-time all-conference choice, Waasdorp led the Mustangs in each kills (308) and digs (436) final season.

The duo from South can even sq. off towards one another, with Dalby representing the purple workforce and Gard taking part in for the blue.

Dalby is a two-time first workforce all-state and all-EDC choice and was named the EDC’s Senior Athlete of the 12 months in 2022. Dalby dedicated to Bemidji State in March and led the Bruins in kills (445), aces (42) and blocks (45.5) final season.

Collectively, Dalby and Gard performed main roles in guiding South to its first state match look in eight seasons. Gard was proper behind Dalby in kills final season with 345 and added 32 aces. She led the Bruins in digs with 423 and was an all-EDC choice in 2022.

Soine will characterize West Fargo on the blue workforce. The second workforce all-state and all-EDC choice from final season led the Packers with 82 aces and was third on the workforce in blocks with 29.

Richter will be a part of Soine on the blue workforce as a Class B all-state choice in 2022.

Teaching the blue workforce might be West Fargo Sheyenne head coach Leah Newton and Northern Cass head coach Angie Johnson. The purple workforce might be coached by Bismarck Century head coach Jamie Zastoupil and Kenmare/Bowbells head coach Tim Wallstrum.

Coaches are invited to educate the all-star video games primarily based on their workforce’s finishes on the state tournaments final season. The 4 are then randomly assigned to both the purple or the blue workforce.

Newton was named the state’s Class A Coach of the 12 months in 2022 and has been awarded EDC Coach of the 12 months the previous two seasons.

The 2023 NDHSCA/Optimists’ all-star collection will kick off in Fargo at North Excessive on June 12 earlier than the collection flips to Bismarck the following night time at Legacy Excessive. Matches will start at 7 p.m. each nights with pregame ceremonies at 6:45.

ROSTERS

TEAM RED

Gamers:

Payton Foster, Setter, Bismarck

Asiah Gross, Outdoors Hitter, Bismarck Legacy

Bernadette Newman, Outdoors Hitter, Jamestown

Khloe Brown, Rightside Hitter, West Fargo Sheyenne

Reagan Bogenreif, Outdoors Hitter, West Fargo Sheyenne

Emma Dalby, Center Hitter, Fargo South

Magee Rovig, Setter, Minot Bishop Ryan

Breanna Vosberg, Center Hitter, Heart/Stanton

Summer time Hegg, Center Hitter, Thompson

Haley Wolsky, Outdoors Hitter, Carrington

Eden Provider, Center Hitter, Cavalier

Jordan West, Libero, Thompson

Coaches:

Jamie Zastoupil, Bismarck Century

Tim Wallstrum, Kenmare/Bowbells

TEAM BLUE

Gamers:

Olivia Soine, Setter, West Fargo

Chelsa Krom, Center Hitter, Bismarck Legacy

Caton Pearcy, Outdoors Hitter, Dickinson

Claire Bauman, Center Hitter, Bismarck Century

Genevieve Gard, Outdoors Hitter, Fargo South

Kailee Waasdorp, Outdoors Hitter, West Fargo Sheyenne

Gracie Schumacher, Setter, Linton-HMB

Taylor Christensen, Outdoors Hitter, Glen Ullin/Hebron

Karli Klein, Center Hitter, Garrison

Taryn Sieg, Center Hitter, Drake-Anamoose

Brenna Stroklund, Center Hitter, Kenmare/Bowbells

Tori Richter, Libero, Central Cass

Coaches:

Leah Newton, West Fargo Sheyenne

Angie Johnson, Northern Cass