Keeping up with - Kim Mowbray - Varsity Volleyball

Reporter Michelle Sandstrom caught up with Kim Mowbray of the Wildcat Volleyball team last week and has the following report:

Playing volleyball for six years, Kim Mowbray is very well known around the courts. She is 5 foot 10 inches and chooses to play volleyball because it keeps her in shape.
Kim has been playing this game since the seventh grade and has spent three years playing on varsity for the Oak Harbor Wildcats as a middle blocker. Her number is 6 and has been since her freshman year. Kim is a senior this year and even though these ladies have had a shaky start, they are hoping for the best, and the best in her mind is becoming one of the top four teams and making it to the playoffs which they did last year, and personally she wants to play all around rotation wise.
A normal practice she says, consists of ball handling, warm ups, and the preparing of defense and offense. At practices she works at not standing around so much but being active.
Kim prefers home games over away and describes the team “as close as sisters”; every home game they have a team dinner. She also believes that being on a team such as volleyball helps keeps her grades up because without good grades she can’t play, “it’s a great motivator”. She also loves her coaches and describes them as “chill, we can joke”. She also explains that the coaches expect their eating habits to change during the season, “carbs carbs carbs”, and if they don’t change, they get in trouble.
Outside of volleyball she doesn’t have a job and plays softball in the spring.
When asked about going to college for volleyball she said “if I could play at a college level I would really like to”. She doesn’t have a role model but thinks Misty May-Treanor and Carrie Walsh are “freaking amazing”.
The season is just beginning, and hopefully these ladies can get back on track and Kim completes the season at her best during her last year.