Name: Brooke Bell
Sport: Volleyball
Jersey Number: 10
The Melrose, Massachusetts-native has been working hard to be a team player on the Keene State College volleyball team.
Kendall Pope / Sports Editor
In the Oct. 30 game against Worcester State she contributed 23 assists and had seven digs.
The following weekend when the Owls played Rhode Island College, Bell made 15 assists and two digs.
Later that day, when the Owls played against Eastern Nazarene, Bell added four more assists and two more digs to her stats.
The sophomore setter said it’s nice to end the season on a winning streak because it gives the team confidence going into tournament. However, Bell said in the upcoming weeks she is going to try to get the team to communicate more.
“One of our issues is that we don’t communicate well, so I’m going to try and get everyone to talk to each other and act as one team and if we communicate well that will also boost our confidence,” Bell said.
Bell, who started playing volleyball her first year of high school, said Head KSC volleyball Coach Bob Weiner has helped her improve a lot the last two years.
“He’s [Coach Weiner] a setting coach — whenever Alexis [teammate] or I make a mistake he will correct us and help us out. We also have time in practice to go off and work on our own,” Bell said.
Bell is a dual major in elementary education and psychology.
“I want to work with special ed. kids,” Bell said.
Bell is also one of three sisters and looks forward to holidays because she gets to see them.
“My older sister lives away and the other is in grad school,” Bell said.
Kendall Pope can be contacted at kpope@keene-equinox.com
