{"id":78090,"date":"2021-11-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/thunder-mountain-girls-volleyball-heads-to-state-championship\/"},"modified":"2021-11-07T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:30:00","slug":"thunder-mountain-girls-volleyball-heads-to-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/thunder-mountain-girls-volleyball-heads-to-state-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Mountain girls volleyball heads to state championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunder Mountain High School girls volleyball team is headed to the state championship in Anchorage this week, and coach Julie Herman is feeling confident.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have been fortunate to play quite a few of these teams up north, we have beat a couple of them,&rdquo; Herman said in a phone interview Monday. &ldquo;We feel pretty competitive under the bracket.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Falcons just won the Region V tournament held in Ketchikan over the weekend, Herman said, following a season with a 70% win ratio. The Falcons had 17 wins, 7 losses and one tie, Herman said, and were 8-2 eight in the league.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/rock-aakw-festival-opens-with-songs-dancing-and-drumming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Aak&rsquo;w festival opens with songs, dancing and drumming<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Herman said this group of girls was really well connected and were close off the court as well.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The girls like to be together and one of the things they like to do is play volleyball,&rdquo; Herman said.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the team&rsquo;s players were voted All-Conference for Region V, Herman said, Seniors Sydney Strong, an outside hitter, and Molly Brocious, a setter, and junior setter Moana Tuvaifale, were voted among the top six in their conference.<\/p>\n<p>The state championship will feature eight teams from around the state, Herman said, and the Lady Falcons will have their first game against Palmer High School on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfhsnetwork.com\/events\/asaa\/game741122a15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thursday, Nov. 11, at 3:15 p.m<\/a>. Herman said she felt confident in her team&rsquo;s abilities but noted losses to Anchorage&rsquo;s Dimond High School and South Anchorage High School, both of which are in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re proud and pleased,&rdquo; Herman said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of exciting things to watch this next weekend.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Peter Segall at psegall@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @SegallJnuEmpire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proud and pleased. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":78091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[240,218],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-78090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78090"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=78090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}