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U.S. Sitting Team blends new faces with veterans
SIGNATURE SEEKERS: Clockwise from top left, Angela DeHaan, Nicole Nieves, Bethany Zummo, and Cali Overcast enjoy some down time; club players surrounded members of the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team for some autographs; head coach Bill Hamiter takes over during a timeout; Nieves hammers away against Canada. (Photos: Bob Blackburn)
F
ive new faces joined the U.S. Women’s National Sitting Volleyball Team for a fi ve-match exhbition series against Canada March 8-10 at the Denver Convention Center. The fi ve new players who weren’t on the 2012 U.S. Paralympic
Women’s Sitrting Volleyball roster — Nicole Nieves (Kissimmee, Fla.), Alexis Shiffl ett (Waseca, Minn.), Cali Overcast (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Bethany Zummo (Dublin, Calif.) and Angela DeHaan (Yuba City, Calif.) — took the fi rst step toward making the 2016 Para- lympic Games in Rio De Janiero, Brazil.
The new players joined forces with veterans Kari Miller (Washing- ton, D.C.), Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C.), Kendra Lancaster (Westfi eld, Ind.) and Kaleo Kanahele (Oklahoma City, Okla.) to sweep Canada in the series.
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Head coach Bill Hamiter liked what he saw from his new blend of players and feels the new infusion of young talent will benefi t his team in the long run. Some players like Shiffl et and Overcast were playing their fi rst
National Team competition. “It’s a competitve environment,” Ham- iter said. “Some of them just need more experience.”
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