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or high school, she was hardly a threat — much
a standout player. In fact, her friends and family
dered if volleyball was even the sport for her.
ut the teen-ager was determined to improve and
t so far as to bet her loved ones she would go on to
collegiate volleyball. It was seemingly an outlandish
for a young girl who could barely get the ball over
iet — at least it may have appeared that way to those
miliar with Howes’ competitive drive,
ine years later, the senior outside hitter for the
is A&M Volleyball Team looks back on those ear-
ays and laughs.
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ked at volleyball,” Howes said. “But I just knew I
ited to play competitive college volleyball. 1 set
that goal and I think that motivated me to im-
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not translate into immediate stardom with Aggie
eyball. That was not one of her goals, and she said
is always very goal-oriented. Instead, she was
ingto make the right contributions, whatever nec-
ry, to help A&M win.
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s a young collegiate player, Howes was over
lowed by some of Texas A&M’s resident power-
ses. Players such as All-American Stacy Sykora
d the Aggie court and especially Howes’ position,
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chance to contribute my own play to the game.”
That contribution has been quite large this season.
Howes plays at left-side outside hitter, where she func
tions in large offensive and defensive roles necessary
to put the ball away. She is also one of the.Aggies’ pri
mary passers that helps determine and set up A&M’s
initial offensive attack.
“It’s fun, you’re the terminator,” Howes said. “Its
an exciting role. You’re all over the court, you get to
do tons of different things, you’re not very limited and
you have to be good at every single aspect of the game.
That’s why I enjoy it so much.”
The multiple roles of the position requires a versa
tility that Howes has spent many years developing.
“She plays a tough position, especially in the Big
12,” A&M volleyball coach Laurie Corbelli said.
“Sometimes as an outside hitter, it’s you against the
world. It’s you against the entire squad on the other
side, trying to find a way to terminate. That’s the men
tality she’s growing into.”
With all the different roles of the outside hitter, it is
often hard to recognize a player’s specialty. However,
on the court it is obvious that nothing drives Howes
more than big defensive plays.
“I love defense,” she said. “It’s really exciting be
cause its something that fires up the crowd, fires up
your teammates and fires up yourself. A great dig can
just change the attitude of a game. It’s kind of like
stealing the other team’s glory.”
In addition to leading the team defensively with a
3.11 digs per game average, Howes leads the serving
statistics for A&M and is second in kills with 2.74 kills
per game average.
But dominant numbers and performance on the
court are only one aspect of Howes’ game.
Corbelli said the leadership the senior provides to
the team is just as vital.
“Celia likes to philosophize on the court,” Corbel
li said. “She is the team’s deep thinker — analyzing
the situations from the team perspective, how every
body’s thinking, how everybody’s feeling, the feel we
want on the court, the general chemistry. One of the
things she’s known for on the court is that she likes to
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Senior outside hitter Celia Howes became a regular starter for the A&M Volleyball Team this year. Howes
played behind former All-Americans Kristie Smedsrud and Stacy Sykora her first three years on the team.
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