Girls’ volleyball, newest MUHS sport, bursts out of starting gates, hits 4-0

Girls’ volleyball, the newest varsity program at Middlebury Union High School after a seasons as a JV team following its previous history as a club, is making waves.

The Middlebury Union High School girls’ volleyball team made history on Sept. 1 by prevailing in its varsity debut. 

Mount Abraham Union High School this fall is joining more than a dozen Vermont high schools in offering volleyball. It is starting as a club team for students with hopes to ultimately progress to a varsity-level sport. 

Interest in volleyball spiked in March at Middlebury Union Middle School.

Next fall, a year from now, Middlebury Union High School will add a varsity sport and have a girls’ varsity volleyball team, not a club but a fully sanctioned team.

Girls’ volleyball has arrived to Addison County as a junior varsity program with two teams sponsored at Middlebury Union High School. 

The Panther volleyball team won one NCAA Division III tournament match before falling on Saturday, 3-0, to second-ranked host Trinity University (Texas) in the second round.

This past fall, nine Addison County teenagers gathered after school at the Middlebury Recreation gym to better understand what this volleyball craze is all about.

MIDDLEBURY — Chellsa Ferdinand, a resident of Queens, N.Y., and a spring graduate of Middlebury College, was a four-year member of the Panther volleyball team. She graduated in May with a degree in political science and is now working as a corporate paral … (read more)