{"id":119961,"date":"2018-11-02T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=119961"},"modified":"2018-11-02T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:39:53","slug":"video-bates-volleyballs-strong-bond-on-and-off-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/02\/video-bates-volleyballs-strong-bond-on-and-off-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bates volleyball&#8217;s strong bond on and off the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the volleyball court, captain Julia Panepinto &#8217;20 of Buffalo, N.Y., is the one dishing out the assists. Off the court, Panepinto&#8217;s teammates assist her.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s taking the rhetoric course \u201dPresidential Campaign Rhetoric,\u201d in which students mount a full-blown mock presidential campaign on campus. And Panepinto is one of the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t every campaign event, the team is there,&#8221; Panepinto said. &#8220;So there is such a supportive environment we have, and I think it\u2019s unparalleled.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"highlight-box \"><\/p>\n<p>Starting at 5 p.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsnsports.net\/colleges\/bates\/\">watch the livestream of Friday&#8217;s NESCAC Volleyball Championship quarterfinal<\/a> between Bates and Wesleyan.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/section>\n<p>It&#8217;s a supportive, but also very competitive, environment. Practices are intense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can get a little snippy,&#8221; Panepinto says with a smile. &#8220;Only seven people can start on game day and each of us wants to be one of those seven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mix those two ingredients together and you have the best season for the program in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bates College volleyball&#039;s strong bond on and off the court\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iiv8rRiDso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats went 14-8 during the regular season, the program&#8217;s most wins since 2009. Now, the Bobcats head to the NESCAC tournament for the fourth straight year under head coach Melissa DeRan.<\/p>\n<p>Each season, Bates has increased its win total under DeRan but the Bobcats are still looking for their first win in the NESCAC tournament since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously being in the tournament is great, the NESCAC is a fight, day in and day out,&#8221; DeRan said. &#8220;But, that\u2019s not good enough anymore and it\u2019s time for us to make an impact now that we\u2019re there.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team has a strong bond and they are competitive among themselves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":120078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,24,130,11012],"tags":[11402,6365,9103],"class_list":["post-119961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-athletics","category-collaboration","category-student-life","tag-melissa-deran","tag-nescac","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119961"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120066,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119961\/revisions\/120066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}