Just when you thought they were down, here comes St. Henry

By "Keane"
New Captain Brinn Blog Contributer
What started out as a highly anticipated volleyball season for this Midwest Athletic Conference foe, soon fell apart. However, tradition, coaching, and athleticism has now righted the ship for the St Henry Redskins. Winners of 7 in a row have now caught the attention of most in D3.
St Henry is arguably the best small school volleyball program in the state of Ohio for the past 20 years. Currently, they have been performing substandard for them. St Henry is used to getting to the final four and winning state titles as well as MAC titles. However, St Henry has sort of fallen on hard times. A 10-16 record last year ended up being a regional birth season where they fell to D3 power Huron in straight sets. The Redskins had all eyes set on a repeat regional run again this season. They had a great summer playing and defeating some great teams including the tough test at the Maumee Bay tournament. They started out strong in the early season defeating a good D1 Centerville (13-7) team. They followed that up with a tight loss to Cincinnati Mt Notre Dame by the scores of 27-25 and 25-22. They then loss to D1 power Chaminade-Julienne in that same tournament in two.
Then, the Redskin train came to a hault losing to rival Celina, Delphos St Johns, suffered a shalacking to Albany Alexander, two losses to Marion Local, Lehman Catholic, New Bremen, and Orrville. At that time, St Henry was sitting in unchartered waters boasting a 3-10 record. This was something Head Coach Lori Schwieterman and the St Henry community just never experience.
Maybe they had enough of that. Now, St Henry has ripped off 7 straight wins and are showing glimpses of what many had thought would be a traditional St Henry season. They have great wins over D3 powers Rockford Parkway and Versailles as well as New Knoxville, Piqua, and Coldwater.
In short, St Henry is back and cannot be taken lightly by anyone in the D3 tournament. If the same holds true again this year, it appears St Henry will take on Rockford Parkway in the district semi-final assuming these two get the seeds (althought Coldwater could sneek in for the 2 seed as they stand at 11-9 compared to a 10-10 St Henry mark). At the end of the day, I don't want St Henry anywhere near me in the tournament brackets. They are tall, athletic, well coached, and can beat just about anyone on any given day!