The Clackamas print., October 21, 2015, Page 5, Image 5

Former player returns as coach
Sarah Hoeke takes over as head volleyball coach
B Y K A T IE A R C H E R
A perfectly timed set between setter
and hitter can produce a point and
spark a blazing fire in a team.
After 32 years of coaching, Kathie
Woods retired w hen last year’ s
volleyball season ended.
For assistant coach Sarah Hoeke,
the timing was perfect to ascend the
roll of head coach for the Clackamas
Community College volleyball team.
Had the timing been different, Hoeke
doesn’ t know if she would have
applied for the job.
Regardless, if it’ s a game or a
practice, Hoeke wants her players to
haye fire on the court.
“ So I ask them about fire,” said
Hoeke. “Where the fire comes from?
It comes from within.”
PHOTOS BY DICK CLOUSER
Setter Sarah Entenman earned
this week's Player o f the Week
Before she started coaching, Sarah Hoeke
played for the Cougars from 20 00 to 2001.
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The team also talks about what’ s
important now. W -I-N . They talk
about what they need to individually
focus on for the team to succeed.
There have been some challenges
during Hoeke’ s first year as head
coach. One being she has a brand
new team with only two sophomores,
Lindsey Keegan and Hanna Wright.
Keegan, along with freshman Cassidy
Richardson, are two of Hoeke’s fire
starters.
“ One of my main goals was to
mesh as a team. To work together as
a team,” said Hoeke. “ To trust each
other, to trust each other’s skills and
come together on the court as a team
and progress from there.”
According to Hoeke, once a team
starts to mesh, everything else starts
to get better, but team meshing takes
time. At the start of the team’s first
conditioning class over the summer,
most of the girls didn’t know each
other.
The girls have hung out after
practice, volunteered together and
some of them are roommates. Hoeke
is proud of her team for becoming
friends both on and off the court.
The only returner from last year is
Keegan. “ Everyone on this team, I can
say, there’s no clicks and everyone
really enjoys each other’ s company,”
said Keegan. “ For how much time we
spend together as a team in the gym,
we still spend time with each other
outside the gym. We don’t get sick
of each other.”
R ed sh irt fre s h m a n A ly s sa
Christiansen contributes the team
growth to their ability to play
volleyball.
“ You know, become friends, like
a fam ily,” said Christiansen. “ You
know, we were strangers. It’s been
half way through the season and
we’ve already become a family.”
From 2000 to 2001, Hoeke played
for Woods. Woods’ 32-year coaching
After a tough loss, Hoeke isn ’ t
legacy left Hoeke with some big shoes
to fill but she uses Woods as a model the kind of coach to tell her girls
of what a good coach is on the court they could have done better, said
Christiansen.
and off.
“ She’s always positive; she’s never
Keegan said, “ They were both
great coaches. Sarah took a lot from negative.,£he’ s like ‘You guys did
Kathie in her coaching style and it’ s great,’ you know, she always says
definitely paid off in how we became positive things,” said Christiansen.
as a team.” Age is the only difference “ She never worries about the loss.”
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between the coaches for Keegan.
photo by Austin Boltz