Early in their first year with new head volleyball coach Nicole Jones, the Lady Indians are starting off the season with a 3-8 record. 

“The season isn’t going as great as we want it to,” senior Aubree Hoffman said.

As Jones steps up this year after spending the two previous seasons as assistant coach, she is ready to spark a change. The team’s main goal this season is to beat their greatest opponent, Washburn Rural High School, using their four core value: family, accountability, commitment and effort, or FACE for short.

“I like [Jones as a coach] because she connects with us emotionally and as people instead of just as athletes,” senior Libero Wesley Zeka said. 

The lady Indians haven’t done as well as they have wanted but hope to turn that around. 

“We haven’t won very many of our games,” sophomore Dakota Garcia said. “But we stay in it.” 

The team wants to focus on staying consistent the whole game. 

“We stay in the games,” Garcia said, “but in the end we kind of fall off.”

The team will compete in Emporia on Thursday and at the Wasburn tournament on Saturday.

“We’re switching up some things, trying to fix a lot of our problems,” Garcia said. “We’re hoping to start winning soon because we are fixing the issues that we have.”