The Weighing Cause of Why We Don't Have a Boys Volleyball Team
The absence of a boys' volleyball team has been a topic that screeches the minds of students at St. Lucie West Centennial High School for a while now, especially for prospective members. This brings up the big question: why hasn’t the school created a team yet?
To initiate our search for an answer, I, with the help of Robert Emmanuel Dy, conducted an interview with the school's athletic director, Mr. Combs, and asked him a couple of questions regarding this matter, hoping to find a concrete answer to the question that many students have been asking themselves.
A transcript of the said interview is provided below:
Q: [What is] the primary reason why there isn’t a boys' volleyball team?
A: So [in] the state of Florida, the governing agency for sports is the Florida High Schools Athletic Association. They set up what sports are available. So, boys' volleyball is one of the sports that they've adopted so it's available for FHSAA. Once they [FHSAA] adopt that sport, the counties have to fund that stipend. St. Lucie County has never adopted boys' volleyball as a sport. So, we could, like one of the local schools, adopt boys' volleyball as a club sport but we wouldn't be a part of the state series- we wouldn't be part of the FHSAA [tournaments]. St. Lucie County doesn't fund the stipend for coaching, so whoever coaches would have to do it voluntarily, and I think that's been [one of] the biggest problems- finding someone that would be willing to coach on a voluntary basis. It's a pretty big-time commitment with practices and travel and all that.
Q: How likely is it that we will have a boys' volleyball team soon?
A: I think pretty likely. I put out an email earlier and I’ve had a couple of teachers reach out and… [I’ve] seen interest and it’s just a matter of them hosting a meeting. I’ve [also] encouraged some of the boys that have asked me about it to [...] organize and get together. I think if we have the number of boys that we need for a team, I’m pretty optimistic that we could find someone to coach.
Q: Are there enough number of people who are interested?
A: That's tough to say. I don't think we really had a meeting but individually, kids have [come] to me and said they were interested. You play 6 people in a court at a time, you probably need at least 8-10 kids. So, how serious those 8-10 kids are, I'm not certain.
To truly see who would be interested, a meeting of interest could be held. Either way, the boys of Centennial have been wanting a volleyball team- even if that team is a club team.
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