Deseret News | Reader comments: Boys volleyball trying to grow out of club status

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Boys volleyball trying to grow out of club status

TPVBC Alum | 1:09 a.m. July 8, 2008

I played on the first ever Twin Peaks Volleyball Club teams, we started my junior year in high school in 1987 - 1988. The original coaches were Scott Bevan, Steve Spere, and Cory Soloman. With all due respect to Coach Larsen, credit where it's due for the guys who founded the program...20 years ago...

ME | 8:07 a.m. July 8, 2008

I played for Twin Peaks starting in 1991. That was 17 years ago. Cory Solomon was our coach. He did an amazing job of building on the skills we had learned from Gene Bechthold at Churchill Junior High. I'm glad to see that there are still people trying to build the sport in Utah. I wish Coach Larsen and his team much luck and success. I would encourage Desnews to be a little more accurate in their research.

Basketkase | 9:41 a.m. July 8, 2008

I know that if high schools in Utah offered sanctioned volleyball, I would have played it instead of football when I was a student.

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Freck | 10:56 a.m. July 8, 2008

Twin Peaks was at it's peak in 2000 under Barry Larsen with kids like Derek, Schuman, and Stewart playing. The real question is not whether volleyball is growing out of club status or not, but rather if Varner still wears knee pads? Best of luck to this years Peaks team. They got the best coach in the state!

Twin peaks alum2 | 11:01 a.m. July 8, 2008

The Larsens are a great Volleyball family,And have done much to keep the club going, but it would be a mistake to give Them Credit as founders of the Twin Peaks Club. As they manage the club they have a long way to go to match the accomplishments that Cory and many of the Teams he mentored had. As of 1996 the Club was still Ran by Cory Solomon.

sports fan | 12:44 p.m. July 8, 2008

come on des news. Volley ball is boring give us something interesting to read in the high school sports section. Let me help you. Provo running star josh rohatinsky just missed making the olympic team last week in the 10000 meter run. he finished 6th in the nation, and the top 3 go to bejing. Lets report on some good stuff

Volleyball boring???? | 3:31 p.m. July 8, 2008

To Sports Fan:
You obviously have never watched and/or played volleyball. It's a great, exciting, competitive and very action packed sport. I would love to see high schools bring boys volleyball into their athletic programs.

sports fan can kiss it | 3:51 p.m. July 8, 2008

and running is any more interesting? please. volleyball is an intense sport whereas running (track)is a dull sport. which sport is more interesting to watch?

Volleyball is fasinating | 4:29 p.m. July 8, 2008

Volleyball is the most exciting womens beach sport ever. Not because of the game, but because of what the female players wear. Its a shame that it isn't a more popular game among high school male athletes.
signed
The High School Chess Club

Sports Fan?? | 6:16 p.m. July 8, 2008

You may need to rethink your name. Using "Sports Fan" leads people to think you know something about sports...

Re: Sports fan | 1:59 p.m. July 9, 2008

I didn't know you were the final decision on deciding what sports were entertaining. I think sports are for the athletes more than they are for the spectator. So try to keep your ignorance and stupidity to a minimum. I support any sport that lets people have fun, keep in shape, and build character..whether its entertaining or not.

Utefan | 4:05 p.m. July 9, 2008

Volleyball is only for people who can't play a real sport

come on UteFan | 9:20 p.m. July 9, 2008

Clue in there, friend. A few names you "true sports fans" should know in Utah. Natalie Williams, Taylosrville HS grad, first woman to play for US Olympic Basketball AND VOLLEYBALL teams. Logan Tom, Highland HS grad, one of the best ever to play at Stanford University, now playing pro beach volleyball.
Any of you who think vball isn't a real sport, or it's easy. find your local HS coach or a club coach, put on your shorts and your skills, and ask to do a bucket drill. After you drag your sorry but out of the gym, and when you're done crying about your floor burns, come tell us what a man you are...

come on UteFan 2 | 11:32 a.m. July 10, 2008

I've never heard of either of those people. Were they on American Idol? I don't watch that. And could you please use sports terms in your comment because I don't understand what you are saying.

ivan perez | 10:23 p.m. July 10, 2008

come on ute fan when you can beat me in volleyball ill agree with you

cone on ute fan 3 | 1:52 a.m. July 11, 2008

I guess that you never heard of Wilt Chamberlain. He played volleyball as well. I guess that the only man to score 100 points in a single basketball game isn't really an athlete. You don't believe me look it up, and maybe you should educate yourself.

HS Sports Fan | 11:00 a.m. July 11, 2008

If you make Volleyball an official sport, don't you then have to introduce a sport on the girls side, or get rid of an existing boys sport? Rugby, Hockey, and Lacrosse are all boys "club" sports as well (or at least they were when I was in high school). There are just too many sports out there. They can't all be school sanctioned.

Utefan | 1:46 p.m. July 11, 2008

I'll play you in volleyball as soon as you play me in checkers. One GAME for another. And about Wilt Chamberlin, Why don't you do some research and tell me why he decided to switch to a sport. Come on educate yourself

Utefan | 12:51 a.m. July 12, 2008

I can tell you exactly why Wilt Chamberlain switched sports. It's called money. He could make a whole lot more in basketball than in volleyball. The lure of money is the exact same reason why Chase Budinger decided to go to play for Arizona for basketball rather than to go to college for volleyball, even though he was the top recruit out of highschool for volleyball and could have easily had a full ride. If you don't know who he is that doesn't surprise me, maybe you ought to google his name as well. However the comment that I last made was in regard to you saying that "Volleyball is for only people who can't play a real sport." So according to your reasoning either Wilt Chamberlain wasn't really an athlete or basketball isn't a real sport. Which one is it?

Wow... | 1:30 a.m. July 12, 2008

I wish boys volleyball would be sanctioned because there's so much talent out there.. As a girl who's played volleyball against guys, there's no denying that it takes as much athleticism to pick up or hit a ball that's coming at you at what, 70+ mph?? as it does to run a track or run a ball down a field. Just ask ivan perez.... Senior at BYU who was/STILL IS hands down, one of the best in the MWC this year..

Head Volleyball coach | 8:36 p.m. July 12, 2008

As a head girls volleyball coach and teach Co-Ed volleyball at my high school . I agree I have 6 classes of it and there are 5 times the boys in the class then girls. I think they should play it during the spring then it wouldn't interfere with football. I think that in the winter the gym space and practice would be a huge problem for high schools. I agree it should be a sport but our UHSAA is a different bread up there.

Sports | 8:39 p.m. July 12, 2008

The title 9 rule is that there has to be as many oppurtunities for girls as there is boys. SO football in itself equals about the total of almost all of the girls sports. I don't think that title 9 is a problem in this area. I think it is great to get more people involved.

Utefan | 5:52 p.m. July 15, 2008

Basketball is not a real sport. You proved that!!!!

S. Utah | 2:18 p.m. July 19, 2008

It is only a matter of time. We had a meeting at our small school about a boys club team, 80 kids came and more attended the first practice. Southern Nevada and CA currently offer it in their HS and the sport has boomed. Utah needs to get it going, perhaps all the troubles with boys soccer will finally be acted on and vball will be added for boys in the spring. We can only hope...Soccer is for communists....

high school student | 8:02 p.m. July 20, 2008

i know a ton of my friends that would love to have a real volleyball team and not always just have to play sand volleyball. It is a way fun sport.

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