The ReSporter: The San Marcos Tournament was your last tourney…how do you see

Head Volleyball Coach Kimberley Paisley

what needs to be worked on as you go these last few weeks before the start of district play?

Coach Paisley: “The San Marcos tournament was excellent, especially for the last tournament. We definitely played stronger teams. We also have had the chance to watch some film and see ourselves in action. We are focusing on certain areas of our game and fixing it up.”

The ReSporter: The ReSporter noticed on the stat line that Regan Mickey seems to be getting more involved, is she above the curve or about where you thought she would be at this time?

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Canyon Lake Volleyball team went to San Marcos for a predominate 4A Tournament and came away with a 3-3 record in this affair.

San Marcos tournament will be the last tournament for the Hawks as they are now less than a month from the District 27-3A round robin.

Canyon Lake will have a five game home streak as they will not go back on the road until the Hawks open district play in Navarro.

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Hawks Jumping up as Season Matures

CL Volleyball team has successful Tourney in Cedar Creek finishing 6th place out of the 18 team tournament.

On Saturday, the Hawks were placed in the Gold Bracket after finishing 4-1 the first two rounds.

The Hawks will now carry a winning record into next weeks set of games with an 8-7 showing.

“I’m proud of their effort this weekend,” Head Coach Kimberley Paisley said. “We had a great fight in us that will help build mental toughness.”

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Hawks having a Block Party

Canyon Lake had a good first day at Cedar Creek in Bastrop on Thursday when they swept all three of their opponents.

The Luling, Randolph, and Taylor wins improved this seasons record to 7-5 and some major confidence builders for the Hawks.

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Senior Amber Ramsey puts a block on the Lions

Canyon Lake swept Lockhart Tuesday night at the Hawk Gym as all three squads (Freshman, JV, and Varsity) took care of business on their home court.

Canyon Lake Varsity won their pivotal game after Lockhart tied up the match at one game a piece.

The Hawks had a game point and a five point lead 24-19 when the Lions responded with a five point rally to tie the score.

Lillie Sander then responded with a kill to side out and then finished off Lockhart with a service ace to end the threat and give CL a hard fought victory.

“I feel like we do too much and then we don’t take advantage of all those opportunities that Lockhart gave us,” Head Coach Kimberley Paisley stated. “We made the game tougher on ourselves.”

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The ReSporter: How is the progress, progressing as this season enters the second

Head Volleyball Coach Kimberley Paisley

week?

Coach Paisley: “Week one started off rocky Tuesday, but rolled around at Tesfest. (Wimberley’s Tournament) The energy and togetherness came and we picked up our level of play. We had a ton of growth during those two days.”

The ReSporter: What is your quest as you proceed from here?

Coach Paisley: “Our quest is getting better every week…getting primed for district. The more competitive we play each week, will only prepare us for our district.”

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‘Consistent’ has been that one word to describe what Head Coach Kimberley Paisley

Junior Libero Hayley Melone

would want Canyon Lake Volleyball team to say no matter their outcome in these early pre/district games.

Now with two wins in the Wimberley Tex-Fest Tournament you might see a decent team starting to take hold of that word.

“We are getting more comfortable with our offense and defense, Coach (Paisley) is wanting us to run,” Junior Libero Haley Malone offered. “That is helping us cover the court and be more consistent.”

The Hawks are serving a lot of youth from behind the line and need to be sure they are communicating.

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The CL Hawks started their new season with a new coach and a lot of new players as they suffered two losses in the three team round robin to Clemens and Liberty Hill.

“It is all about coming to the game prepared and we have a lot of things to work on,” Head Coach Kimberley Paisley stated. “We are only as strong as our weakest link.”

Coach Paisley could be seen exhorting throughout each game as the Hawks had way too many unforced errors causing both losses.

“We had too many missed serves and we killed ourselves in both games,” Coach Paisley continued. “Our offense needs to be cleaned up.”

“There are some things we need to work through and we are not perfect….I’m looking for a solid eight players and I just don’t know who that core group is yet.”

This will certainly be a learning experience as this season commences.

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Alumni looking good before the game. (from left to right, Casidy Riccio, Logan Nease, Alyssa Drum, Reanne Wagliardo, Marisa Ellis, and Katie Williams)

Canyon Lake’s Volleyball team won their first game on Thursday night as they took it to the Alumni Team.

After opening with a hard fought loss in the first game, the more fresher players were able to take the next two games and put the Alumni team to bed.

One thing you can notice with this team is that Senior Trena Lorett is very serious no matter who she is playing.

Her intense look on the court was intense.

Lorett had her serve down and served notice that this just not any game.

“I’m hoping with a new coach and a lot of new players that we can get to the playoffs this year,” Lorett surmised.

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New Volleyball Head Coach Kimberley Paisley will make sure you understand

Head Volleyball Coach Kimberley Paisley

That team will at least be ‘Consistent’.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary would state: (a) marked by harmony, regularity, or steady continuity : free from variation or contradiction. (b) marked by agreement : compatible…

Coach Paisley grew up in Wimberley and played on two Volleyball teams that made it to the Final Four with a State Championship resulting for one of those campaigns.

We are not finished as Paisley also played on two basketball teams that also made it to a Final Four and was beaten both times in the semi final game.

Coach Paisley played Volleyball for Kingsville in college and had a major in Biology.

She then proceeded to Alice and started her Coaching career for her first four years.

Alice was also just starting a Volleyball program and finished last to being just one spot from making the playoffs her final season.

Paisley then moved north to Smithville for three years where she inherited a team that was 0-10 in district play to playoffs for the first time in 20 years.

Each move has allowed Paisley to get closer to Wimberley where her Dad still lives.

“I was ready to get here,” Coach Paisley said excitedly. “I was excited.”

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