Cashmere Bulldogs

Volleyball 2007

Home Record:  0-7 Road Record:  0-7 Post Season Record:  0-0
Date Opponent Score W-L Records
Tuesday, September 11 @ Cascade 0-3 L (0-1, 0-1)
Thursday, September 13 Omak 0-3 L (0-2, 0-2)
Wednesday, September 19 Tonasket 1-3 L (0-3, 0-3)
Thursday, September 20 Brewster 0-3 L (0-4, 0-4)
Saturday, September 22 @ Lake Roosevelt 1-3 L (0-5, 0-5)
Wednesday, September 26 @ Chelan 0-3 L (0-6, 0-6)
Thursday, September 27 Okanogan 0-3 L (0-7, 0-7)
Thursday, October 4 Cascade 0-3 L (0-8, 0-8)
Saturday, October 6 @ Tonasket 0-3 L (0-9, 0-9)
Tuesday, October 9 @ Omak 0-3 L (0-10, 0-10)
Tuesday, October 16 Lake Roosevelt 2-3 L (0-11, 0-11)
Wednesday, October 17 @ Brewster 0-3 L (0-12, 0-12)
Thursday, October 18 Chelan 0-3 L (0-13, 0-13)
Tuesday, October 23 @ Okanogan 0-3 L (0-14, 0-14)

Strange but true...

Success has always seemed to be synonymous with Cashmere athletics — you can pretty much count on at least one postseason contender in some sport. But that hasn't been the case with the school's volleyball program in recent years.

The Cashmere netters have lost 51 straight matches, their last win coming against Sultan on Sept. 9, 2004, in the season-opener. The Bulldogs' woes have been even worse in league play, where they have endured 62 straight losses dating back to a win on Sept. 19, 2002, against Ephrata.

Lindee Juette, the team's head coach the past two seasons and an assistant for six years prior, says that most of the school's best athletes have flocked to a much more successful soccer program. She adds that coaching turnover and, thus, a lack of continuity, has contributed. Juette is the third head coach in the last eight years, and she says there have been new assistants every year.

The solution?

"You just keep building and teaching and going to camps," Juette says. "Before I started coaching, they weren't going to camps."

This year's team is very young, having lost nine seniors in the last off-season. That translates into hope for 2008, when the Bulldogs lose just four seniors and will be much more experienced as a whole.

~October 18, 2007, The Wenatchee World