David Jablonski: Wittenberg men’s volleyball: Dayton, West Liberty-Salem grad leads program to Final Four
* Save Jamie Peterson, the head coach of the Wittenberg University men’s volleyball team, won’t travel with her players from Springfield, Ohio, to Springfield, Mass. , this week for the NCAA Division III Final Four, but she will still be there. She wouldn’t miss the opportunity to coach the team in the most important match in program history.
Peterson is eight months pregnant, so she can’t fly. ...
* Save Jamie Peterson, the head coach of the Wittenberg University men’s volleyball team, won’t travel with her players from Springfield, Ohio, to Springfield, Mass. , this week for the NCAA Division III Final Four, but she will still be there. She wouldn’t miss the opportunity to coach the team in the most important match in program history.
Peterson is eight months pregnant, so she can’t fly. She’ll travel by car 11 hours with her dad James for the match on Thursday, April 23, at Springfield College. Then her husband Zach Sprinkle, who will fly to Massachusetts on Wednesday, will drive her home whenever the season ends.
For Peterson, long car rides are a small price to pay for an unexpected tournament run by an unranked team that had never played in the NCAA tournament before this season. “There’s a little bit of a shock in terms of how we performed this weekend with it being our first NCAA tournament,” Peterson told the Springfield News-Sun on Sunday, April 19, “but in terms of our talent level and just showing people that we can play with some of the best teams in the country, I’m not shocked at all. I think this is something that they’ve been proving to me since August.
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