Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomore year, and after two years of varsity field hockey, Maragaret Cheng suddenly "caught volleyball fever." Now she's co-captain of the women's volleyball team, and first year coach Karyn Altman says she's "tickled to death...
...women's volleyball team, in its first year of varsity competition, has already equaled its last year's win total of six, largely due to the efforts of the omnipresent Cheng. Altman, a former MIT volleyball player, says, "Margaret has great natural talent; she has great strength, quickness, and jumping ability--and an excellent 'floater' serve. Her athletic ability enables her to run the whole offense...
Coach Karyn Altman credited her team's vast improvement to this increase of team spirit. "A lot of it is just attitude. It's been a slow group of practices the last few days. We've been taking the emphasis off skills and putting it on togetherness," Altman said...
...noted that Harvard had difficulty dealing with Northeastern's star spiker, Freshman Chris Giunta. "Our blockers are inexperienced blocking faster spikers. She hits it the same way every time, but we just couldn't adjust to her speed," Altman explained...
...loss didn't shake Altman's confidence in her team. "This team can look very sharp. It's not that they don't have the skills to play well. They are capable of playing very well. There's no team that we couldn't beat," she said...