Rachel Peters misses pre-season volleyball. “Now that district play has started, games just aren’t as challenging. Our pre-season opponents, like Pearce and Highland Park, were much tougher.” And Rachel enjoys a challenge. The senior Wildcat setter plans to attend UT next year, where she’ll major in electrical engineering. She knows she’ll miss volleyball, so she hopes to join a club team or play in an intermural league.
“Petey,” as her teammates call her, enjoys math and listens to John Mayer. Her favorite movie is Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, about four African American soldiers who get trapped in a small town in Italy in World War II. She says she’s really enjoying her Criminal Investigations class at LHHS, learning CSI:Miami-style crime-solving techniques. She says her teacher, Dimitra Simme, is “really funny” and “shares lots of interesting stories about being a parole officer before she came to LHHS.” Sounds like crime-fighting is in Rachel’s blood. When the new LH WalMart first opened, she and her mom spotted a thief stealing music CDs by slipping them under the fence in the garden department. Rachel alerted security and they nabbed the thief.
A girl after my own heart, Rachel says the best thing about being on the volleyball team is having mashed potatoes at team dinners. It’s their traditional dish, she says of the meals they share each Thursday night. She says she’s really looking forward to the Richardson game tonight, because several girls on both teams play club volleyball together. JV plays at 5:30 pm in the LHHS gym and varsity begins at 6:30. “My goal is to fill up the gym for every home game like we did for Pink Out. That was really fun, and it made us SO ready to play.”
