Brooke is pictured here with her Father Stan and Mother Denise.

Brooke is a 5’8 Junior and plays Volleyball 🏐 for Coach Edwards and Softball for Coach Rick Nester.

Brooke was born in the Hospital 🏥 in Radford but has been in Hillsville her entire life.

Brooke is the daughter of Denise Webb and Stan & April Webb.

History with the game of Volleyball began back in the 6th grade and she started playing on a team in the seventh grade.

Mom shares that she started playing Softball as a 5-year old but retired shortly after due to being Hit by a Pitch one too many times. Didn’t start back until the 8th grade.

We invited Brooke to share a couple of thoughts about herself, through her parents. Also invited both Parents to share a thought as well as both Coach Edwards and Coach Neely.

Here are those responses :

Coach Neely :

Brooke is fantastic. She has really grown as a player the past couple of years. Part of that is due to Kimmie and Travis helping to increase her volleyball iq with club, but mostly because she just wants to be better. When she was told we needed her in the middle this year, at first she was a little hesitant, but she has jumped right in and works hard to make herself the best middle that she can be.

Her and Laiken have worked on running different plays – flairs, 3s, 1s, tights – and we are seeing their setter/hitter connection continue to grow.

She worked hard over the summer to better her passing and defense, and we are seeing her be more confident in herself in those areas.

At times she does get down on herself, as do so many others, but she has gotten better about not staying down on herself.

She is one of the loudest and most positive voices when she is on the bench and I truly
believe that she wants the team to have fun and be successful.

Not only is Brooke a good player, but she is a stellar student. She is so very intelligent and I will not be surprised if she ends up in the top 10 in her graduating class. I have been blessed to be able to work with student-athletes who want to be better and to better the program and Brooke is another to add to that list.

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Coach Edwards :

Booked has improved so much she has worked so hard to be on the court and I couldn’t be more proud of her you can see her growing with everything from hitting to serving she is also a softball kid who has put in alot of work and effort into that sport also. While being a straight A student.

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Brooke with two thoughts –

I like travel volleyball seasons because I get the travel and hangout with my friends from other schools.

I love that Christmas 🎄 starts in September for me. I enjoy going to look at Christmas lights, decorating my house, and listening to Christmas music.

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Mom 👩 :

Brooke is wise beyond her years and is currently taking dual enrollment classes and has a relationship with Christ.

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Dad 👨 :

Brooke is as self motivated as a child can be. I have never had to wake ⏰ her up once in her life. She is that way in regards to both School 🏫 and Athletics.

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Brooke Morgan Webb wears #16 on our Volleyball 🏐 team and now you know just a little bit about this impressive young Lady 👩.

Head Coach Jason Petty and Assistant Coach Nikki Heflin led their team into action 🎬 versus James River High School 🏫. While their team fell short to the visiting Knights, the youngsters continued to grow.

The final score for the match was 2-0 in favor of James River (25-13, 25-21) and now we will take a look inside the numbers.

In the opening set… CCHS fell victim to one big run 🏃‍♂️ of 8-0 that turned the score from 10-6 to 18-6. The Lady 👩 Cavaliers settled down to finish up the set at 7-7 but the damage was done during that one run.

Coach Petty tried his best to slow 🐌 the roll by calling one of his Timeouts during the pivotal stretch but swing the momentum back in time to save the set.

In the second set Carroll County took a 7-6 lead before a 9-0 run put them in a deep 15-7 hole 🕳. The first answer by CCHS came after falling behind 21-12, as the Lady 👩 Cavaliers strung together their own 9-2 run and just like that CCHS was within 23-21.

James River closed out the match by scoring the final two points for the 25-21 victory. 14-10 advantage for CCHS down the stretch after being down big in an elimination game is a good sign.

JV returns to action 🎬 Thursday night at Floyd County High School 🏫.

Some members of our Drum section ❤ are warming up in the outer hallway and its fun to shine Positivity on others !

This dynamic duo is set to Coach up our Junior Varsity team here in about 45 minutes.

Injured but not forgotten, Corrie Delp is still very much a part of this program 💙.

Here for the evening and will be adding when I can.

If you’re looking for something to do, come on down !

First Serve – 5:31

Junior Varsity Volleyball 🏐 is underway !

We got next…

JV – Set #1 – Cavs pull within 10-6 but Knights go on a run 🏃‍♂️ to make it 18-6. Leigha Harrad bookends a 3 point answer for the Lady 👩 Cavs.

Hayden Heflin & Aubrey Hanshaw with winners 🏆 down the stretch before the Knights prevail 25-13 in the opening set.

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Set #2 – Pizza 🍕 Inn is in the House !

Carroll County leads 7-6 !

JRHS 7-0 run leads to a CC TO

Knights up 21-12 but Cavs answer with 6-1 run 🏃‍♂️ to force a JR TO. Down 22-18…

Cavs TO, down 24-21.. Final Score JR, 25-21.

Great Rally from down 21-12 ….

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20:00 + on the Clock ⏰…

The Harris family 👪 is in the building so you can visit their Facebook page for live streaming of the Varsity match.

Coaches & Captains Meeting !

James River Varsity roster

6:45ish – First Serve

6:52 – Actually 1st serve !

6-6 early, Cavs 8-7, Tied at 16

TO, CC, trailing 21-19…

Tied at 24-24, then JR scores the last 2 for the 26-24 victory.

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7:15 – 2nd Set – TO CC, trailing 12-10. Two evenly matched squads.

TO – CC, 20-15 Knights. Cavs pulled within 16-15 but have slipped back just a bit…

Knights close out Set #2, 25-19(7:40)

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Set #3 – Knights out early, 5-1, TO CC

We have a Kris Richardson sighting in the Main Gym, which means his Basketball 🏀 practice for his Little Ladies is over for the evening.

Cavs have tied it at 12 All, again at 16 All.

TO – JR, Cavs lead 18-16, fighting to stay alive ! Four more in a row give our Ladies a 22-16 advantage & another JR TO !

Coach Edwards uses her final TO, leading 22-20.

Thrilling end to Set #3 – Lady 👩 Cavaliers, 29-27 in OT (8:13)

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Set #4 – Coach Edwards calls 📞 an early TO, down 4-0.

Tied at 10 !

JR 14-12, 14-13, 22 All

TO – CC – Down 24-23

8:42 – James River scores the final point in the 25-23 fourth set.

Game Story to follow later….

Of course Eddie Walls knows what his Son accomplished this weekend because he was standing there with him after Dakota Walls finished 3rd in his latest race 🏁 and 3rd gets you a spot on the Podium ➕ a few words with a highly entertaining gentleman holding a 🎤🎙🎤.

I have only had the pleasure of hanging out with the Walls family 👪 one time in person but it made a lasting impression on me.

We signed on to be one of the Car sponsors this season and have been able to make it to the Franklin County Speedway a couple of times to watch the Carroll County High School Freshman zip around the oval track.

This weekend included races 🏁 in two places on consecutive days and the results were the best of the season.

Eddie Walls has presented his Son with a business opportunity and Dakota has run with it. You never know how a story is going to play out but this has been a fun one to be a part off !

It’s my understanding that Dakota will race three more times this season and we will do our best to keep up with their efforts. But for now, Congratulations 👏 on making it to the Podium Young Man 👨.

The weather outside will almost certainly remove the 2pm Golf ⛳ match from today’s schedule but we can add two College VB matches to the list of things to keep an eye 👁 on tonight.

Let’s start with Jason Petty and his Junior Varsity squad. The Lady Cavaliers return to The Hill after have spent all day Saturday over at Patrick County – Glade Springs (4 matches). The team earned their first victory of the season down there and played competitive sets and matches throughout the day.

5:30 pm is the time for First Serve for those of you that get off work in time to make it to the Gym by then.

Head Coach Cindy Edwards has her team sitting atop the Three Rivers District standings at 2-0 (4-3 overall). Alleghany came to town last week with a spotless 5-0 mark but left town at 0-1, 5-1. Then the team traveled up to Glenvar for a 5 set victory after falling behind 0-2.

Tonight both teams will face the Knights of James River High School. Varsity will take the floor roughly 25 minutes after the conclusion of the JV match.

Both Eastern Mennonite University and Ferrum VB teams are also in action 🎬 tonight.

Madison Stockner and friends will be home tonight, hosting Hollins at 7pm.

Kalee Bunn and her Ferrum teammates have an interesting week ahead of them. The Panthers are Set (Volleyball 🏐 term) to play three matches in three different parts of the State this week.

Lexington, Richmond area and finally to the Beach ⛱ before returning home. Safe bet that the team will return to School 🏫 after tonight but it promises to be a hectic week just the same.

Hopefully our Ladies will play in front of a nice crowd tonight, folks can come in out of the Rain 🌧 and watch some hard working Lady 👩 Cavaliers perform!

Who knows, you might just Dig it…(Volleyball 🏐 term)