Jasper High School has named Liz Milligan as its new varsity volleyball coach. The hiring was approved at Monday’s Greater Jasper Consolidated School Board meeting.

Heritage Hills senior Kaebra LaGrange signed a letter of intent to attend Oakland City University in the, where she will play volleyball.

Forest Park senior Mackenzie Weyer will continue her volleyball career at Brescia University in Owensboro.

The IHSAA released new sectional alignments Monday for each of its class sports, and neighboring rivals Jasper, Southridge and Heritage Hills will again be grouped together in the same Class 3A sectional for five sports. Forest Park and Northeast Dubois stay in their most recent spots, but some football and soccer teams will switch.

Deborah Giesler had to excuse herself for a second. It’s a sequence she’s probably used to by now and also what ultimately led her to resign as Jasper High School’s volleyball coach. The Greater Jasper School Board accepted her resignation at Monday night’s meeting.

Sure, some of Katie Fischer’s ambition to play college volleyball was intrinsically driven. Much of her motivation arrived from another source, too.

To everyone inside Cabby O’Neill Gymnasium, the situation was wonderfully familiar. Perhaps even welcomed.

It doesn’t take long before Abby Rogers starts receiving information. After the start of each match, she begins absorbing the critiques and orders she hears from coaches.

What started as an impossibility became an improbability. That transformed into a faint hope, which then morphed into a believable notion. Finally, that idea that appeared inconceivable 124 points prior became Jasper’s unthinkable reality.

Northeast Dubois led No. 4 Loogootee in the Class 1A volleyball regional until late in the first set before the Lions pulled away to a 25-23, 25-14, 25-5 win.

When Shelby Merder thinks of the perfect point in volleyball, everything gets shhhh.

Michaela Stemle had a secret.