RALEIGH – Senior outside hitter Hailey Cook led Hendersonville
to a three-set sweep over Raleigh Charter on Saturday night for the North
Carolina High School Athletic Association state 1-A volleyball championship at
Reynolds Coliseum on the N.C. State campus.
Cook, whose size at 6-2 was hard for Raleigh Charter to
handle, was named the championship match Most Valuable Player as the Bearcats
rolled to the title, 25-20, 25-22 and 25-20.
Hendersonville won its 10th state volleyball
championship in 12 appearances in the final, both of which are the top marks
for any NCHSAA school. The Bearcats won their last title on the end of a
three-year championship reign in 2007.
Hendersonville ended the year with a 21-6 mark, winning its
last 13 in a row, while Raleigh Charter, in the championship match for the
first time, ended 22-6.
The Bearcats are coached by Brooke Stanley, in her first
year at Hendersonville and the daughter of NCHSAA Hall of Fame member Jan
Stanley.
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