Tribune Tribune | From club to sport | Mousy News

The beginning of the school year brings many new opportunities to get involved in extracurricular activities after school. Ranging from honor societies to contact sports, Wando

High School offers its students a multitude of organizations to be a part of. One of the school’s newest members is the boys’ volleyball team. Volleyball is a team sport that

includes nets, volleyball and cooperation. Before the men’s volleyball team can become a sports team, it must be a club for two years. This process has been extended due to the

time hiatus, which is the result of the pandemic. After completing two years as a club, the proposal to make the club team a sanctioned sport was put before an appeals committee

and approved in May 2022. . So, officially, there is now a men’s volleyball team playing under Wando’s name. With 41 other men’s volleyball teams across the state, this team

has plenty of options when it comes to competition. Unfortunately, men’s volleyball will not have a state championship this year as the sport must be sanctioned a year before a

state championship is available. Bruno Kretzschmar, the coach hired for the men’s volleyball team, is excited to start the season. “I think when our first season is over, I

think we’ll be as good as anyone else,” Kretzschmar said. Kretzschmar is new to high school coaching and has high hopes and expectations for the success of the new team. “I

am quite new to coaching but so far I love the job, I definitely see the challenges and I definitely see the rewards,” said Kretzschmar. With the help of Alexis Glover, Wando’s

women’s volleyball coach, Kretzschmar was a last-minute addition to the team and he couldn’t be more excited to be there. Glover played a key role in the initial founding of

the men’s volleyball team before they were approved as an accepted sport. She met with a multi-person committee to discuss how they should proceed to form this group. “Believe

it or not, in the Midwest, the North, California, Texas and Florida, they always have men’s volleyball. So South Carolina progressed a bit slowly but here we are,” Glover said.

With the help of numerous directors and representatives across the state, the men’s volleyball team was able to become a club in 2019. However, for the sport to be accepted, at

least 20 were needed. team in the state. With hard work and dedication, there were eventually a total of about 41 men’s volleyball teams across South Carolina. The sport’s

state approval is not the final obstacle to the formation of this team. Now they need players. Practice sessions were held prior to admission for the varsity team and there are