The Georgia College Volleyball team looks forward to their 2022 season with five returners and 10 newcomers.
Head Coach Gretchen Krumdiek did some heavy duty recruiting leading to the commitment of an extremely qualified freshman class. The newcomers consist of six freshmen. The first of the freshman recruited is Alanis Bernis. She is the Mill Creek High School graduate of the class of 2022. Bernis is coming in fresh off of an A5 club season where she was a a defensive specialist and a libero. Hannah Chang is the next addition to the roster. She is one of the out of state committee for this year’s team coming from Enterprise, Al. Chang was signed to help fill the gap left by former GC stand out turn Putnam County High School volleyball assistant Sarah Mangan. Olivia Alvarez is also coming into the GC program this year. She is an instate commit who is a multi-sport athlete out of the Savannah Christian Preparatory school.
Alvarez is also a defensive specialist and libero.
The next roster addition is Camryn Carlton. She is a multifaceted athlete coming into an already impressive GC roster as the defending GHSA state champion in volleyball.
She won back-to-back state championships at Buford High School as a right side before she committed to GC. Kiersta Trammel also announced her commitment to GC in the offseason. She is a recent graduate of Lumpkin County high school where she recorded over 1,000 assists as a setter. Trammel is also coming off of a season with the A5 club. Maddie Gilmartin is the final freshman addition to the 2022 roster. Gilmartin is the outside hitter from Kell High School. She is also coming fresh off of a season with the Rio Volleyball club.
Coach Krumdiek also utilized the transfer portal throughout the offseason to make the team even stronger. She nabbed two in conference transfers in Miranda Hardin and Rachel Machovec. Hardin is a transfer from Peach Belt Conference (PBC) school Lander University.
She is the defensive specialist coming off of her freshman season where she recorded 21 assists, nine service aces and 164 digs. Machovec is from PBC school Flagler College. She is coming off of her redshirt sophomore season as an outside hitter where she led an impressive Flagler squad with 230 kills.
Machovec finished the season second in digs with 254 and 27 service aces. The next two transfers are both from Snead State Community College in Brooke Roberts and Kyeli Hazzard. Roberts is a middle blocker who put up 27 total blocks in her freshman campaign including 16 solo blocks.
Hazzard is a right side who had eight kills in eight matches her freshman season._ The Bobcats only brought back five returners. Emily Long hailing from Mooresville, North Carolina is the only season on roster. Long is a setter who didn’t play much last season due to injury. The next returners are juniors Mary Kate Kotzin hailing from Dunwoody and Callie Miller from Altoona.
Kotzin is the middle blocker who complimented Mangan in the 2021 season tying a school record for blocks in a single game. Miller is the right side who ended her abbreviated season with 99 kills and 94 digs. The final two returners are the redshirt sophomore hailing from Cumming in outside hitter Ally Hall and sophomore Hayley Shepherd from Kathleen.
Hall was named to the PBC all second team at the end of last season with 356 kills and 406 digs. Shepherd ended her season with a .500 hitting percentage as a middle blocker.