Dorchester Times: DHS Volleyball Coach Comments After Season Comes To End

Thursday, November 7, 2013

DHS Volleyball Coach Comments After Season Comes To End

Earlier this week, the DHS volleyball team's season came to an end after the squad fell to Meridian in the District 2, Class D-2 Sub-District tournament. The Lady Longhorns finished their season with a 5-21 record, which was disappointing for the team, despite having one of the youngest team's in its class.

DHS Coach Ty Peteranetz told the Friend Sentinel that the Longhorns played the best they had since the Crossroads Conference tournament. “We had had some problems with playing as a team in the matches since CRC, and I was very proud of the way we came together,” he said. “We had more than one run where we played great volleyball, and there were certain plays that exemplified the fight and finish that I was hoping to instill in the girls this season.”

The Sentinel notes that young players like Jacee Weber, Kacey Zoubek and Avery Behrens helped lead the team during the season.

Peteranetz made the following comments regarding the season: "I am so unbelievably proud of this group of young women. In times when they could have given up, they didn't. They welcomed freshmen as contributors and welcomed a new coach with open minds and open arms. Every player contributed in practice, in matches, and off the court. I am thrilled, THRILLED, with the growth they showed this year.

“We had a good measuring stick as we played many teams more than once, and were able to show those teams how much we can improve with hard work. It was a blessing to work with this group of athletes, and I look forward to even greater things in the future.”

As the Times reported earlier, participation for DHS volleyball this season was at its highest level in three decades.

Mr. Peteranetz is a self-described "transplanted, Colorado-born Husker fan," who moved to Omaha in 2011 after 30 years in Colorado to be the assistant volleyball coach at the College of St. Mary. He missed teaching terribly, so he resigned his position with CSM to be an educator and coach at DHS. He teaches Dorchester's fourth grade.

11 comments:

Old No. 64September 16, 2013 at 11:21 PM
Considering all that's happening with the football program at the University, this is nice to see. Thanks, coach!
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AnonymousNovember 7, 2013 at 3:52 PM
Thanks for a fun season! Can't wait to watch the girls play next fall and see the improvements. Keep up the good work Lady Longhorns and Coach Ty!
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AnonymousNovember 10, 2013 at 1:58 PM
I thought there were more players on the team. To bad they werent mentioned.
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AnonymousNovember 10, 2013 at 5:31 PM
There can be six people on the court right? Yeah, not just three. Why, wouldn't you just mention the whole team insted of picking "favorites"!!
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BobNovember 10, 2013 at 10:56 PM
I'll bet they did it just to hear you complain.
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TyNovember 12, 2013 at 10:58 AM
So, I do read the articles about us whenever I can. It hurts my heart to see the negativity up here.
My goodness, I think the writer of the piece picked those athletes in particular because they are athletes who will be around in the future.
As the coach of this program, I could list all 20 girls that played JV and Varsity for us, but I'd rather continue to reflect on how hard every person associated with this program worked, how key of a role they in practice and in matches. This program is a hidden gem, and I'm grateful to have been associated with it. I'm so sorry to see this negativity.
#longhornvolleyball
#heartsoulfight
-Coach Ty
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."