{"id":6978,"date":"2012-11-20T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:13:17","slug":"nsr-female-aod-sarah-mcaniff-all-state-volleyball-outside-hitter-from-joel-barlow-high-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/nsr-female-aod-sarah-mcaniff-all-state-volleyball-outside-hitter-from-joel-barlow-high-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"NSR Female AOD: Sarah McAniff, All-State volleyball outside hitter, from Joel Barlow High, Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our Female Athlete of the Day is a 5\u20198\u201d volleyball outside hitter with a 3.1 GPA.\u00a0 She is\u00a0Sarah McAniff<\/a><\/strong>, a senior and four-year varsity letter winner from Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Connecticut.\u00a0 Sarah\u2019s academic interests lie in business administration.\u00a0 Last week Sarah was named the MVP of the Southwest Conference Championship Tournament, leading her team during the season and in the tournament to a perfect record of 24-0.\u00a0 More impressive is the fact that her team did not lose any games, posting an incredible 72-0 record.\u00a0 Sarah lead her team in a variety of offensive and defensive categories including service points (176), kills (266) and digs (152).\u00a0 Additional 2012 honors for Sarah include being named to the SWC All-Conference and SWC All-Tournament teams.\u00a0 While other post-season awards have yet to be given out, Sarah will be adding to her 2011 Connecticut First-team All-State selection.\u00a0 This winter Sarah will once again start on Joel Barlow\u2019s basketball team and later this spring she will be the softball team’s shortstop.\u00a0 According to Steve Antal, the Barlow head volleyball coach, \u201cSarah McAniff is one of the finest volleyball players I have had the pleasure of coaching.\u00a0 Her determination, positive work ethic, and composure have led to our team\u2019s success the past few seasons.\u00a0 She does an exceptional job of balancing the demands of academics and athletics.\u00a0 Sarah McAniff gives real meaning to the term student-athlete. Sarah is a self\u2013motivated student who strives to do her best in the classroom. As an athlete who plays three sports at a very high level it is clear she has been able to handle the rigors that come from balancing success in the classroom, as well as, success in sports. Sarah is committed to everything she does, and she sees the direct correlation of hard work put in equals positive results. Sarah is the epitome of a natural leader. Her level of energy, enthusiasm, and effort are contagious and she often inspires her teammates to bring their level of energy and effort up along with hers. Sarah\u2019s strengths as a leader also enable her, as a junior, to see when one of her teammates needs some encouragement and she does this on her own unprompted by her coaches. So much of the success of the Joel Barlow volleyball, basketball, and softball teams is directly related to the contributions of Sarah McAniff.\u201d\u00a0 Sarah is nothing if selfless, putting her team ahead of herself as she states, \u201cI can always adapt to different positions if needed to help my team be successful.\u00a0 I love the competitiveness, the intensity and the team atmosphere.\u00a0 I will take my dedication toward volleyball to new heights as I will strive to improve all my skills while learning new ones, which hopefully will make me successful at the college level.\u00a0 Every time I step out onto the volleyball court I give it my all, work my hardest and keep improving every time. I always encourage my teammates to work just as hard as I do in order to make volleyball an enjoyable and fun experience for all. I want to feel the intensity, competiveness and fun team aspect which hopefully shows you that I am capable enough to step into the college level and contribute to your team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Female Athlete of the Day is a 5\u20198\u201d volleyball outside hitter with a 3.1 GPA.\u00a0 She is\u00a0Sarah McAniff, a senior and four-year varsity letter winner from Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Connecticut.\u00a0 Sarah\u2019s academic interests lie in business administration.\u00a0 Last week Sarah was named the MVP of the Southwest Conference Championship Tournament, leading … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15558,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions\/15558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}