Varsity boys volleyball team sweeps Prospect 3-0 to win CCS Championship
June 11, 2021
The varsity boys volleyball team won the Division 3 CCS Championship title on Saturday, June 5, dominating Prospect High School 25-11, 25-14 and 25-18 over the course of three sets. This is the second CCS Championship in boys volleyball program history and only the fifth time a Harker sports team has been crowned.
Middle hitter Edis Mesic (9), who joined the team this year, noted that Prospect High School posed competition for the Eagles and that he and his fellow teammates needed to act quickly and efficiently.
“They’re a very strategic team and very smart,” he said. “They had special hitters, who would constantly tip over the block. We had to have a really aware defense, and we had to be prepared to pass those balls and get quality sets.”
Varsity volleyball head coach Zac Mattson felt “ecstatic” about the victory and also about the fact that the team’s run in CCS gave the younger team members an opportunity to compete in a larger playing field and connect more deeply with their older teammates.
“All the underclassmen got to experience, from the get go [in] freshman year, what it’s like to compete at that higher level in the playoffs and come out with the championship,” Mattson said. “So that was really fun and exciting to all be able to be a part of that.”
Despite the challenges that the boys volleyball team faced at the beginning of the year, team captain Billy Fan (12) highlights the team’s resilience as a key to their success and expresses his excitement for their future.
“During CCS we had a full team. Everyone was healthy, and we were all playing pretty well so I think CCS went really, really smoothly,” Billy said. “I think in the future, we have a lot of really talented underclassmen, especially a lot of freshmen, and I’m excited for the future of Harker volleyball. I think it’s gonna be great.”
Additional reporting by Nicole Tian.