Former Cougar coach Chris Green to help with Setter/Hitter camp on July 7-8

Western Nebraska Community College first-year head coach Giovana Melo has announced that former coach Chris Green will help with the July 7-8 Setter/Hitter camp. It will Green’s final time on the volleyball court of Cougar Palace before heading to the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he accepted the head coaching position in March.

Green, who was the Cougar’s head coach the past nine years and helped led them to the college’s first national championship last November, will instruct the hitters during the camp. Melo, who was an all-American setter for the Cougars in 2001 and 2002 before moving on to the University of Arizona State, will instruct the setters.

The Setter/Hitter camp is for girls in the 11^th and 12^th grades. The camp will run 8:30-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-3:30 p.m. each day. The cost of the camp is $75.

The Setter/Hitter camp is designed to fine tune setting and hitting techniques. The camp will be an intense camp with a lot of reps and one-on-one instruction. The camp is limited to 24 hitters and 12 setters, and there are still openings.

For more information on the camp, contact Melo at 308-635-6028 or at melog@wncc.net. A camp brochure can be downloaded from www.wncc.edu and then College Athletics.