Its campus and enrollment are tiny, but Marymount High is a giant in the world of high school volleyball, and this year’s team has a talent to fight for the championship.
Sailors took the first place of 64 teams in the prestigious Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas, removing the opponent of Sierra-Canon, 21-25, 25-15, 25-12, in the final on September 20. The senior striker and Washington concert was called the most valuable player in the tournament.
Marymount did not abandon the set on the way to the classic title of day of labor in Hawaii in Hilo at the end of August. Last weekend in Phoenix, the sailors went to the platinum division championship match at the Nike Champions Tournament in the south -west, falling to reign the champion of the southeast of the 1st division 1. Two programs can again meet in the play -off CIF in November.
For those who save the account, this makes three finals and two titles in three tournaments in three different states for four weeks against the best competitions in the country – as soon as the head coach of Kari Klein loves this.
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“Durano’s victory was huge … and very fun,” said Klein, who reached the plateau of 700 victories at the beginning of this season, the 28th in a Catholic school for girls with 350 students across the road from UCLA. “Over the past two years, we have become better on the second day. Then TOC plays immediately after this heavy turn. This is a lot of travel and a lot of volleyball. ”
Three sailors joined the Destler in the All-Tournament team in the Durango: Senior Setter Olivia Pensk (devoted to Georgetown), younger striker Makenna Barnes (early northwest commander, who hit the command of 217 murders) and the younger average/opposite extension and Stanford beast commander Kellemens, who are Teams with 63 blocks are brought.
The register is also involved in the senior average blocker and the southern Methodist Committee Ella Vandege, the senior medium -sized medium of the Franki Jones (Brown), senior striker Presley Jones (Amherst), Senior Libero Declan Istman (Rice) and senior opponent Grace Jason (Lafayette).
Marimount lost to Mater Dei in one of the best finals in the history of tournaments (28-26 in the third set) in Durango a year ago.
The volleyball coach of girls Kari Klein gained more than 700 victories for her 28 seasons in Marymount High.
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“People do not understand how few students are or how academically oriented,” Klein said. “Our girls have their own books between each game. They study in buses, trains, in the corridors … Any probability that they will become school. ”
Having contributed to the sport itself (it was the state MVP in Irvine High in 1988, and then the attacker at the conference at all the western coasts in Pepperdine), Klein requires many of its players, but she also tries to make everyday routine worthy of the crack of dawn. Her motto is a difficult practice, which makes an easy game.
The Desdler, who began to play for the volleyball club of Klein, when she was 8 years old, accepts this message close to heart. After the Marimount suffered her first loss at Redondo Union on September 2, she said: “Tomorrow we have a practice at 5:45 am, and I should like it.”
Sailors (29-3) begin with a better start after the 2021 team, which finished 35-0, winning 92 out of 100 sets in the process, and earned national national coach of the year in high school.
Of the 20 players at the university, eight are elderly people, and nine are juniors.
“This team is like a team of 2021,” Klein said. “What is different is that these elderly people were so hungry four years ago because they lost their youngest year in Covid-19.”
The longest drought of the Marimount between the performances in the final sections in the Klean possession – five seasons (from 2013 to 2017), so the team is about. She also wants to add another player of the year to those whom she already instructed – Haley Jorgensborg (2001); Stesha Clocks (2002 and 2003); Kelly Irvin (2005); Loren Grezkovik Fuller (2011); and Elia Rubin (2021).
“In our section there are nine or 10 teams that could really give us a match,” said Klein, who led the sailors to 10 southern titles (including the record six in a row from 2001 to 2006), eight regional crowns and seven state championships since he took on the program in 1998. Harvard-Vestak, Mater is very difficult to win.
In addition to the success of the postszon, the Marimount won the 24 titles of the league under Klein. To add to this total quantity, he must defeat Sierra -Kanyon, who defeated the sailors three times last season. The first of the two meetings of the Mission League is Monday evening in Chatsworth.
In one case, the name in the section in 2025 will be sweeter than others for Klein, because she lost her house in the fire of the palisad in January, like some of her players. She lived in Platia -Doda -re with her husband, a former high -level defender Palisads Perri Klein.
“We have already had to deal with this, but many girls were injured in the program, as well as young players in the club,” she said. “This is a rather emotional year for the Marimount.”
