By Will Tuell

Going into last season’s Class B State Championship game against Yarmouth, the Washington Academy Raiders had not lost a volleyball contest in some sixty matchups, cementing an already impressive program as one of the state’s all-time great squads despite their heartbreaking loss in the state championship. That defeat may serve as the catalyst for Coach Corey Schwinn and his girls in the weeks ahead, but as with years past, the team’s approach, Schwinn said in a recent pre-season interview, has not changed.