VC Club Volleyball Team Qualifies for Nationals

VALLEY CITY, ND  (NewsDakota.com)  A Valley City club volleyball team, with a ton of local talent, has qualified for a national tournament.

The Valley City-based South Central Selects volleyball club has advanced an 18-U to a national tournament after winning a qualifier in Montana against an international group of teams.

The team, coached by Mardi Scutchings, who led VCSU to their first national tournament appearance in 2023, finished 2-1 in pool play on May 3rd, but came back to win tight matches in the bracketed round, including a set that finished 32-30, to win the title.

Sunday, May 4th, the group defeated a Montana team in the gold bracket’s opening round, then survived a 32-30, 25-23 win over Team Empire from Minot, to advance to the championship.  They faced SEAVC Rattlers Gold from southeast Alberta, and won the title match 25-16, 25-23.

Melissa Anderson, the coordinater for SC Selects volleyball, said, “The most impressive thing for me as a coach/director is the way the handled themselves on the court. They had to play through some tough calls from refs and refs who held them to a high standard of play but they not once were disrespectful to the refs or the other teams. They kept their emotions level and took care of business, playing with confidence in themselves and each other.”

The roster includes VCHS juniors Kadie Kocka and Kinlee Sufficool, as well as freshman Brynn Lueck, Medina/Pingree-Buchanan senior Brynn Sorenson and junior Shayla Martin, Grafton senior Molly Bjorneby, Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier senior Libby Mathern, Maple River senior Stella Satrom (Page, ND), and MPCG freshman Abby Sand.

The team has established a GoFundMe page for donations to cover travel costs to the national tournament.  Please click this link if you would like to help.