Volleyball

August 26, 2011

GC volleyball tips off today

NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot) — JACKSONVILLE —The Gulf Coast women's volleyball team begins its season today with matches against Spartanburg Methodist of South Carolina and Wake Tech College of North Carolina, respectively, at the Florida State College Kickoff Tournament. 

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October 28, 2010
Peck aims to continue GC's rebuilding
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — PANAMA CITY — Kyle Peck has some work to do to rebuild the Gulf Coast Community College women's volleyball team. The Lady Commodores' head coach just finished his first season at Gulf Coast and is on the recruiting trail to attract more talent to a program that finished 11-17 overall and 0-3 in the Panhandle Conference.
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October 25, 2010
GC volleyball ends season Tuesday
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — PANAMA CITY - The Gulf Coast Community College women's volleyball team hosts Jefferson Davis Community College in the Lady Commodores' final match of the season Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Billy Harrison Field House. The match, which includes free admission to the public, will serve as the final match for GC sophomores Elva Carter, Diana Van Rijs, Lauren Whisenant, Janna Hinson and Mattie Collins. GC played in a tournament at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala., last weekend. No results were reported.
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October 21, 2010
Gulf Coast volleyball begins tourney Friday
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — PANAMA CITY - The Gulf Coast Community College women's volleyball team travels to Hanceville, Ala., Friday to begin play in the Wallace State-Hanceville Tournament. The Lady Commodores play Snead State Community College at 10 a.m. and the host Lions at 2 p.m. Gulf Coast will play three matches Saturday. The Lady Commodores play Spartanburg Methodist College at 9 a.m., Andrew College at 1 p.m. and Northwest Shoals Community College at 5 p.m.
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October 8, 2010
GC's road to state closes with third loss to PSC
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — PENSACOLA — The road to the state junior college volleyball tournament is closed for Gulf Coast Community College. Pensacola State College defeated the Lady Commodores 25-12, 22-25, 25-12, 25-23 on Friday to sweep the Panhandle Conference best-of-five series. GC (6-13) needed three straight wins against PSC to advance to state. The end of the series removes the final matches between the teams, Oct. 8 and 20, from the remainder of the schedule. "The girls played their hearts out tonight," GC coach Kyle Peck said. "When we had it going we were hard to stop. But in games one and three we never seemed to find our groove."
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October 7, 2010
GC has long odds to qualify for state
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — PANAMA CITY — Kyle Peck's takes the first of what he hopes are three rolls of the dice Friday. Head coach for the Gulf Coast Community College women's volleyball team, Peck and his Lady Commodores face some long odds having to beat Pensacola State College three straight times beginning Friday at 6 p.m. at PSC's Lou Ross Health and Sports Center. The Lady Pirates (10-3 overall) swept to victories in the first two meetings in the best-of-5 series between the Panhandle Conference rivals. GC (6-12) must win this match and two others (Oct. 20 and 27) to seize a conference title and earn a bid to the FCCAA state tournament. The Pirates will cement first place with a victory, and the final two matches will be erased from the teams' schedules.
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October 5, 2010
Lady Commodores participate in "Dig Pink"
GCathletics.com (By Steve Merchant ) — GCCC Volleyball will be holding its annual DIG PINK MATCH on Tuesday October 19th, to help raise money for the SIDE-OUT Foundation for cancer research. The team will be wearing pink jerseys, and we would encourage all attendees (you) to break out their pink as well…including all of you "real men". Last year we raised over $1,000, and we would absolutely love to surpass that, and you will get to see a good volleyball match to boot. So let's all plan on coming to the Billy Harrison Field House on October 19th for a "Pink-Out" of the entire gym.

October 2, 2010
Volleyball: GC falls in South Florida tourney
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — AVON PARK, FL - Gulf Coast Community College concluded play in the South Florida CC Tournament on Saturday with a 3-0 loss to Palm Beach State College. The Lady Commodores, 4-11, were defeated 25-15, 25-14, 25-14. Haley Lanier and Lauren Whisenant were named to the all-tournament team for Gulf Coast. Lanier had six digs and Whisenant 21 digs on Saturday. "This was a good weekend for us to play some really good teams from the state of Florida," GC coach Kyle Peck said. "We are about halfway through our season, and we are starting to find our stride.
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September 29, 2010
Volleyball: GC falls into 0-2 Panhandle hole
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — So close, but so far. The Gulf Coast Community College women's volleyball team continued to show signs of progress Tuesday night against Panhandle Conference rival Pensacola State College, but the Lady Commodores also showed they have some work to do before making a legitimate run toward a postseason berth in a 25-23, 25-17, 25-21 loss at the Billy Harrison Field House.
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September 22, 2010
Gulf Coast wins home volleyball opener
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — Gulf Coast Community College defeated Baptist College of Florida 25-12, 25-13, 25-9 Tuesday night in its home opener in women's junior college volleyball. Haley Lanier had 12 kills, seven digs and two aces for the Lady Commodores, 3-7. Kristian Robertson had 15 assists and three digs and Lauren Whisenant 13 digs and two kills.
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September 15, 2010
Volleyball: GC drops conference opener
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — Haley Lanier had eight digs, seven kills and three aces in a losing effort for Gulf Coast, as Pensacola defeated the Lady Commodores 25-18, 25-13, 25-18 on Wednesday in the Panhandle Conference opener. Jackie Kuzniar added 10 digs for Gulf Coast (2-7, 0-1). The teams play the second match in the best-of-five series Sept. 28 at the Billy Harrison Field House. GC next hosts Baptist College of Florida at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
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September 14, 2010
Gulf Coast and host Pensacola begin road to state
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — The Gulf Coast women's volleyball team may not have started its season the way it would have liked, but all that is irrelevant Wednesday. The Lady Commodores can take their first step toward a state tournament berth Wednesday with a road victory over Panhandle Conference rival Pensacola State College at Ed Hartsell Arena. The match starts at 6 p.m.
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September 9, 2010
Gulf Coast volleyball on the road
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — The Gulf Coast Community College women's volleyball team continues to prepare for its Panhandle Conference opener with a series of matches this weekend. The Lady Commodores, 2-3, play 6 p.m. CDT tonight at State College of Florida in Bradenton. On Saturday, GCCC meets Lake Sumter and Indian River State College in a tri-match in Leesburg beginning at 1 p.m. Gulf Coast plays Pensacola State College on Wednesday in its conference opener.
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September 8, 2010
GC volleyball gets road triumph
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — Cuthbert, GA — Gulf Coast improved to 2-3 in women's volleyball on Tuesday with a 25-18, 25-16, 25-13 victory at Andrew College. Leading the Lady Commodores was Haley Lanier with 11 kills, 10 digs, 3 blocks and 2 aces. Middle hitter Ebony Sutton had 5 kills and 2 blocks. Gulf Coast plays Friday at State College of Florida in Bradenton.
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August 30, 2010
GCCC volleyball wins one of four
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — Jacksonville, FL — The Gulf Coast Community College women's volleyball team opened its season winning one of four matches in a tournament at Florida State College-Jacksonville this past weekend.
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August 23, 2010
Peck leads GC volleyball into new season
NEWS HERALD (By Jason Shoot ) — Kyle Peck's life as a first-year head coach waffles between the familiar and unfamiliar each day. Peck has had adequate time since his March hiring to settle into his office at Gulf Coast Community College, organize his schedule and recruit a few players to the women's volleyball program. However, Peck has coached previously only one of his current players, has never seen his team play a match and can't reveal a lot about the Commodores' opponents this season, which opens Friday at a tournament at Florida State College of Jacksonville.
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July 4, 2010
GC athletes get academic awards
NEWS HERALD (By Brad Milner ) - Gulf Coast Community College had two athletes selected to the NJCAA Academic All-American teams for 2010. Jackie Varnum (volleyball) posted a 3.97 GPA and was selected as NJCAA Distinguished Academic All-American and Randall Sheffield (baseball) posted a 3.61 GPA and was selected as NJCAA Academic All-American. Seven other Commodores were selected to the FCCAA All-Academic Team for 2010: Varnum and Sarah Agustin, volleyball; Chelsea Combest, women's basketball; Kayla Minger, Heather Hughes and Tiffany Adkison, softball; Sheffield, Michael Love and Andrew Fonzi, baseball.
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