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“She has been such a force that I started to put a portfolio together of everything that she is able to do and I counted 15 different shots that she is really good at,” Spartans head coach Ryan Hofer said Thursday before practice of the myriad of ways in which Carpentier is able to rise off the court and take a cut at the ball. Yet it turns out that there is a 16th way in which the 6-foot-2 Ottawa native is able to take a cut, and when the two-game series wraps up Saturday night at the Langley Events Centre, it will count for so much more than any amount of points the Spartans will score as they prepare to defend their status as reigning CIS national champions. Last year, one of Carpentier’s nearest and dearest friends, a woman she has known since the age of three and someone who she calls “a second mom” was diagnosed with cancer. “It was her birthday in January,” says Carpentier, “so I asked my mom to send me a picture of her. She had just shaved her head because she was going through treatments.
She was gorgeous just as she was. And I don’t know what happened to me at that moment, but right away in my head, I knew I had to donate my hair.” And so the long, floppy pony-tail which Carpentier will have played the weekend series with, one which she calls “a part of my identity”, will be lopped off and donated to Locks of Love as part of a campaign to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. “She is nervous and scared to go out of her own comfort zone to do something for a friend,” says Hofer. “But she is showing a level of maturity that makes her one of the leaders of this team.” Since stepping forward with her plan, Carpentier had already raised $1,250 in advance of the event, which will take place Saturday during the Spartans’ men’s volleyball match against the Heat which begins at 7 p.m. You can donate to the cause by looking for the link in Sophie’s Pony-Tail story at gospartans.ca. Trinity Western and UBC Okanagan women come into the Friday (6 p.m.) and Saturday (5 p.m.) matches playing the most complete volleyball of anyone in the nation.
The teams are not only sitting with 17-1 records atop the Canada West conference with three weekends of competition remaining, each has also produced identical 53-10 win-loss records in sets played this season. Although a conference regular-season title won’t be determined by the series, a sweep by either team would go a long ways towards determining who finishes first, and thus earns a bye weekend and the right to host the conference Final Four tournament, the precursor to the national championships at Brandon University March 11-13. The process the Spartans went through last season to win the school’s first-ever women’s national volleyball crown has carried over into current campaign. “Last year, our common theme was resiliency,” says Carpentier. “But I’ll be honest, (UBC Okanagan) is a great team. They’ve been on our minds for a while.” The recent CIS expansionists from Kelowna have been the model for quickly building a program to national prominence.
Last weekend, the Heat not only beat their Vancouver counterparts, the UBC Thunderbirds, for the first time, they managed a weekend sweep. Province Head of the Class honouree Katy Klomps leads Canada West in blocks per set at 1.33, and the pair of Katie Wuttunee (.320) and Brianna Beamish (.305) are third and fourth in the conference in hitting percentage. “They have six fifth-year players so they bring a lot of experience,” admits Hofer of UBC Okanagan. “Mentally, they are going to be fired up and motivated. It’s going to be a pretty good fight.” And thus the figurative punches and counter-punches will come from a Spartans group which returns a number of key cogs from last season’s national title winner, all of whom excel with their per-set averages. Setter Nikki Cornwall leads the conference in assists (10.73), Katie Devaney is third in blocks (1.25), and Carpentier (3.98) and Elly Wendel (3.54) are third and fifth respectively in kills. As well, Kristin Anton has stepped into a major role, sitting second in blocks (1.27).