As the Ansley/Litchfield volleyball and football teams prepare for the fall sports season, coaches and players from each team represented the Spartans Sunday evening at the Custer County Chief Fall Sports Media Bash.
The Ansley/Litchfield football team qualified for the Class D2 state playoffs last season and finished the year with a 3-6 overall record. This year the Spartans will drop down to six man football for the first time. Head coach Kurt Kulhanek talked about the transition of moving to six man football.
“It’s a little different. You might have to match up man to man like basketball. Or if you have the talent to do it you can play a little zone. That’s the biggest adjustment right there. Are you going to line up zone, are you going to matchup zone? What are you going to do here what are you going to do there? That will be the biggest adjustment for us.”
Ansley/Litchfield will begin the season this Friday when they face the 2023 six man state champion SEM in Sumner. The game will be broadcast on KBBN 95.3 FM and on kbbn.com with kickoff scheduled for 3 pm Friday afternoon.
The Ansley/Litchfield volleyball team will look to improve on an 11-19 overall record a year ago. The Lady Spartans had a very young team a year ago and grew as the season went on. Head coach Jamee Smith says that a year of experience has really helped a lot and helped instill confidence within the team.
“You can just see night and day the difference and the growth throughout the year they come out on the court with confidence and they’re confident in helping each other it’s not just within themselves. They will immediately go to each other. If there is a mistake what do we do to fix it and it’s just awesome to watch. (This group) will give you everything they can give you at practice.”
The Lady Spartans move up from Class D2 to D1 this season and are scheduled to start the season Thursday with a triangular against Elm Creek and Amherst.
