Kara Charette’s journey of success – Volleyball special feature
Kara Charette is the captain of the Fairhaven Blue Devils High School volleyball team. She is 5-foot-11-inches tall and an all-around great athlete. She played basketball and soccer before switching to volleyball. She has served
as Blue Devils skipper for the past two years. The Fairhaven team enjoyed a great run under the supervision of the visionary captain and combined an overall record of 45-8 in the last two seasons. Charette is now heading into her freshman year and is known
one of the most experienced players in the team.
Back in the day, she joined the team with a very little experience so to speak. Four years ago, she was just another athlete with an urge to catch the limelight but now she is known for her extra-ordinary skills on the court. She
spent four years and emerged as the dominant force for the two-time Div. 2 South Sectional champion Blue Devils.
In the view of Fairhaven’s Head Coach, Karen Arsenault, she was very raw when she started playing volleyball. She made into the team only due to her athleticism but with the passage of time, she was refined and amazed everyone with
the quality of her game. She improved immensely and became a phenomenal player.
Charette worked hard and clawed her way to the position of senior captain of Blue Devils. She saw a great boom in the last two years as she was named to the second straight All-State team along with being a Boston Globe All-Star.
This year, she led the Blue Devils to an amazing record of 22-3 and 14-2 league play. She registered 378 kills on the season and broke the all-time school record in kills with 1,261 in total. Additionally, she registered 249 digs and 129 service points were
also credited to her. She has great ability to hit jump serves and took full advantage of this skill by notching 56 aces.
She is an all-rounder player and has efficiently proved her talent in all aspects of the game. She can pass, dig the ball, and deliver powerful serves, and this is all what it takes to be an effective player on the centre court.
Her coach believes that she can put the ball anywhere on the court, which is pretty impressive.
Meanwhile, Charette shared her thoughts on the early years of learning. She stated: "In my freshman year, I really had no idea what I was doing out on the court and was always nervous and unsure of myself. I was constantly in and
under the net and didn't have a lot of technical things down yet. Over the past two or three years, I have fine-tuned a lot of those things and it's completely different for me now because I feel at home when I 'm on the volleyball court."
As the skilled team player, Charette takes a lot of pleasure in praising her teammates, who she says she would be nowhere without. She gives credit of her success to the other two of the "three K's," Kayli Moniz and Kelsey Perron-Sovik,
Charette in the team. She also appreciates the support of former setter Lauren Lopes, who she says taught her so much about the game early on in her career.
Charette has now become a big name in the High School Volleyball in America.
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