For 2018, the three seniors on Germantown Academy’s volleyball team are (from left) Cobree Hooper, Shannon Topley and Taylor Putnam. (Photo by Tom Utescher)[/caption] by Tom Utescher A change at …
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For 2018, the three seniors on Germantown Academy’s volleyball team are (from left) Cobree Hooper, Shannon Topley and Taylor Putnam. (Photo by Tom Utescher)[/caption] by Tom Utescher
A change at the head coaching position is one of the new developments for the Germantown Academy volleyball program in 2018. Dan Sullivan has stepped down after five seasons as skipper for the Patriots. He remains a member of the school faculty and will coach middle school volleyball, having won an Inter-Ac League championship with the high school varsity (in 2015) and reaching the Pa. Independent Schools finals four times.
New head coach Christopher Chung coached and taught at the Taft School before joining the GA faculty two years ago. Last year he got back into coaching as an assistant for the varsity program in the fall, and then he headed the Patriots’ winter volleyball team. Longtime Germantown Academy faculty member and coach Brian Grady returns for his third season on the varsity volleyball coaching staff.
The Patriots graduated six seniors from last year, including four-year varsity hitter Jenna Schumann. Half that number are in the current 12th-grade class, which consists of Cobree Hooper and former varsity basketball players Taylor Putnam and Shannon Topley.
One of the team’s tallest players, junior Caitlyn Priore, will not be able to play this fall due to injury. Her classmates on the volleyball squad are varsity veteran Kelli Ramer and Elizabeth Reaume, who has come up from the JV.
Experienced and talented club player Natalie Schildt, a six-foot sophomore, immediately became a starter last season as a freshman. This fall the Pats are looking for significant contributions from her and five other 10th-graders who make up almost half of the varsity roster. Becca Booth (also a 6’2” post player for GA’s basketball team), Colleen Gibbons, Rebecca Lee, Kiersten Reilly and Mackenzie Smith are the other sophomores.
