BSHS Country Week Boys Volleyball 2001

The 2001 Volleyball team kicked off to a good start with lots of experience from last year’s team. We had Josh “Tall Man” Della Sale, Naeill “Spiker Leigh, Josh “Gonza” Allen and myself Mark “Old Man” Underwood. Complementing this line up was the new blood, Simon “Psycho” Clayden, Mat “Casanova” Watson, and James “Skin Head” Vicary. To round off this great line up we had a coach in the form of Miss “Blondie” Law.
Unfortunately we were not able to play precountry week volleyball games due to the fact that the competition was moved out to the Leschenault Leisure Centre. This was a great blow for our chances at Country Week for without any lead up games vital experience was lost. This meant that we went up to Perth with a fair amount of unease but with resolve to come in any place we could put our hands on, and still live up to our awesome reputation in other fields.

The first night saw us arrive at the hotel with little inconvenience, except for our local Casanova getting Miss Law’s favourite number shirt. This was the start of a beautiful friendship between Matt and Miss Law. The next day saw us compete in our first game against East Goldfields, with Mr. Mc Cool. Which we lost... this losing streak continued throughout our tour at country week, which saw us win only 3 matches. However our promise at the Country Week assembly held true and we came 3rd last. This was a great success for our team and we achieved everything we hoped for.

From an article in the the 2001 Kingia magazine.