In Gennifer Booth’s seventh year as a coach for the Lady Jay volleyball team, and her 2nd year as head coach, she is optimistic about her team this season.

Last year the team finished 5th in the Centennial League which Booth says is “awesome”.

“Going in to this year I am always optimistic…like I tell the girls, every day is a new day – we’ve got to think about whatever happened yesterday, whatever the failure is to just turn it around and make it successful,” said Booth.

The team is currently in tryouts, where Booth hopes to have a first cut on Wednesday and the final teams should be decided by the end of the week.

“My philosophy kind of gets really tight because we see action in about two weeks, so really what I try to focus on is just really building a team . The girls have the fundamentals, the girls that have been here for a long time have the fundamentals – they’re really good leaders on and off the court, and so what I really need to focus on is just getting the team ready that can play against a fast pace league [which is] what we have in Centennial [league]”, said Booth.

The head coach says they generally try to keeep 9 to 10 players on a team, but this year they may select a few more.  Ladies trying out can make Varsity, Junior Varsity (JV) or the Freshman team.

Booth added that she has 9 seniors in tryouts and a few returning Varsity players.

“You know watching all of those girls, they’ve really matured this summer, they took the leadership role, they came to the workouts and they really worked on getting the younger girls to buy in to their philosophies,” said Booth.

Good luck this season to the Lady Jay Volleyball team.

Below are images from Tuesday, August 16th at tryouts: