The Hillsdale College volleyball team is the winner of the American Volleyball Coach’s Association’s “Let’s Make a Video” contest. This was the first year the contest was held and the Chargers stole the show.
The team did their own version of “The Sound of Music” as a thank you to their coaches for taking them on a team trip to Italy and Austria.
“We didn’t know that the video would be entered in the contest. We did it as a thank you to our coaches and found out that Brad Monastaire entered it into the contest,” sophomore middle hitter Haylee Booms said.
The idea to do “The Sound of Music” was a collaboration by seniors Sydney Lenhart and Caitlin Kopmeyer, and junior Lindsay Kostrzewa. To win the award, collegiate teams of all levels were asked to show their creativity.
The video, shot by junior softball player Courtney Day, was filmed in the Grewcock Student Union.
“One of the most fun parts about making the video was breaking into the union over break and filming it when nobody was there,” Booms said.
Although the video took a lot of planning and preparation, the team was efficient in filming it.
“We actually filmed it in one take. We rehearsed it like two or three times but filmed it in under an hour,” Booms said.
For winning the contest, the Chargers’ head coach Chris Gravel will receive the book “Thinking Volleyball,” written by AVCA Hall of Famer Mike Hebert. The team is excited that something done as a thank you to their coach has gained so much attention.
“I think it was weird enough and different enough to win,” Booms said.
