Benjamin Russell volleyball focused in on summer training

File / The Outlook Benjamin Russell’s Janiya Martin (12) jumps to hit the ball during a match in Oct. 2020.

Everything about the 2020 season left a bitter taste in the mouth of the Benjamin Russell volleyball team. The inability to have a normal run-up to the season due to COVID-19. A loss to Stanhope Elmore to close its season that robbed the squad of an area title.

With five seniors and a bevy of juniors returning to the Wildcats in 2021, a now-veteran Benjamin Russell group is returning with a pent-up anger, and they’re taking last year’s frustrations out in summer workouts and conditioning.

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