{"id":1019,"date":"2019-09-25T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2019-09-26T23:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T23:37:48","slug":"the-2019-university-of-wisconsin-platteville-dodgeball-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/2019\/09\/25\/the-2019-university-of-wisconsin-platteville-dodgeball-season-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 University of Wisconsin Platteville Dodgeball Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>UW-Platteville\nDodgeball <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last season (Finished\n13<sup>th<\/sup> Power Ranking, T9 Nationals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preseason Ranking 14<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coached by Erik Zander\n(1<sup>st<\/sup> season)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Left side\nready, right side ready, Dodgeball.&nbsp;\nThese words haven\u2019t been heard on the dodgeball court for what seems\nlike forever. The long offseason is finally over.&nbsp; The University of Wisconsin-Platteville\ndodgeball is ready to show the NCDA that it is a contender this season.\nPlatteville has many returning players from last year\u2019s squad with a few new\nadditions.&nbsp; Last year\u2019s team was\ncompetitive at nationals giving MSU all it could handle. Our younger players\nwere key contributors in that Michigan State match. The UWP dodgeball team is dealing\nwith key losses of Erik, Tomas and Ian.&nbsp; Returning\nplayers will have to step up to replace their contributions.&nbsp; This team returns most of its core players\nand with the hopes of getting a solid freshman class this season. The sophomore\nclass should continue to flourish with the rookie of the year Josh Zauche\nreturning, with contributions from Eli Hundley, and Jared Colden. This team will\nneed to jell as a unit and work on fundamentals. University of Wisconsin-Platteville\nDodgeball team will need to figure out what the identity of team is. The home\ntournament will be on November 16<sup>th<\/sup>. More details on the home tourney\nwill be released when they become available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Board Members Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jerome \u201cJT\u201d Warren <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Vice President <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What\nare your expectations for the season?<ul><li>My\nexpectations are to be a better player than I was last year, and to beat the\nteams that don\u2019t take us seriously.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What\nare your goals for the fall semester practices and tournaments? <ul><li>My\ngoal for the fall semester is to develop the rookies and the new players we\nhave, so we have many options available to us when the bigger tournaments come\naround.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What\narea does this team need to improve this season?<ul><li>What\nthe team needs is more arms. We only have a select few people that we would\nconsider elite throwers and we need a few more.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What\ndo you want this team to be remembered for? <ul><li>I\nwant to be remembered for giving it our all no matter how lopsided the odds may\nbe against us.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Next onto the\nAssistant captain of the Jared Colden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jared Colden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Assistant Captain\/Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are your expectations for the season?<ul><li>One of my expectations is to improve from last season. We       were a young team last year and lacked experience. We started out rough, but got better throughout. I feel like we did pretty well at Nationals       and it left a goal for us to achieve this year. I expect us to continue  where we left off and only get better from there while also growing       together as a team.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What are your goals for the fall semester practices and tournaments?<ul><li>One goal is to find out what kind of team we are this year.       We lost some key players last year that had some good throws. Once we figure out what some of the new guys can do, we can begin to work that out. Another goal is to grow as a team and give our new guys a chance to gain some experience. And the last goal is to just have fun and make some friends along the way. You can\u2019t go wrong there.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What area does this team need to improve this season?<ul><li>Blocking and calling out cross throws. We had too many       people get out from missed blocks and cross throws that no one called out. That hurt us in key situations because we were getting picked off one by one. I also think we could improve in everything else as  well.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What do you want this team to be remembered for?<ul><li>I want this team to be remembered for being the fun loving       team who can be competitive on court, but are the chill guys off court.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now onto the 2019-2020 Team Captain Daniel\nBrogli.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daniel Brogli <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Captain <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are your expectations for the season?&nbsp;<ul><li>Final\nFour,&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What are your goals for the fall semester practices and\ntournaments?&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>Individuals\u2019\nimprovement, developing awareness and strength&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What area does this team need to improve this season?&nbsp;<ul><li>To&nbsp;early to tell, but relying on individuals to\ncarry&nbsp;team&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What do you want this team&nbsp;to&nbsp;be remembered\nfor?&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>Having\nfun, being honest&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left side ready, right side ready, Dodgeball.  These words haven\u2019t been heard on the dodgeball court for what seems like forever. The long offseason is finally over.  The University of Wisconsin-Platteville dodgeball is ready to show the NCDA that it is a contender this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncdadodgeball.com\/uwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}