Naples Too Much for Young Trojans

A young Lely volleyball team and a young coaching staff took their lumps Thursday night at Naples High, losing in three games, 25-19, 25-12, 25-20. Their showing in the third game gives rookie head coach Theresa Keegan cause for optimism.

"We made a comeback in that third game,” Theresa Keegan said. “We are a very young team. I mean, my whole coaching staff is very young. We have three freshmen who play a good amount. So, it is a young team. We have an all-around outside who's a sophomore, Brook Bledsoe. She's doing amazing. And then our other outside is Kyra Schmid, who's another junior. So, we're just a young team, but we're an aggressive team. It's a learning process for a lot of them."

Keegan sees her team improving on a daily basis.

"We started this season off with a little slower teams,” said Keegan, who is a former Lely player. "I think that's kind of hard to go from playing a lot slower games to then automatically playing these fast games. But we'll get the hang of it.”

The schedule doesn’t get any easier for the Trojans.

“In the next two weeks we have Bonita, Palmetto, Barron, and Aubrey Rogers. So, all pretty fast games."