The first title: Frazier was dominant in claiming the 2010 WPIAL volleyball championship
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Frazier无毛视频檚 players and coaches pose for a team photo after winning the WPIAL Class A girls volleyball championship in 2010. Pictured are (kneeling, from left) Gabby Muzina, Keana Bertocci, McKenzie Barch, Gia Bitonti, Erica Harvey, Alexis Davies, Courtney Prontos, Ashley Davies, (standing, from left) Lauren Somers, Megan Manach, assistant coach Dan Hartman, Kelsey Dillon, Savannah Prue, Amanda Pato, Laurissa Ellis, Gena Keebler, Allie Chuboy and head coach Mandy Hartman.
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Frazier coach Mandy Hartman keeps her team calm during a timeout in a WPIAL quarterfinal victory over Western Beaver at Henry DiVirgilio Field House on Oct. 27. Hartman referenced her 2010 WPIAL championship team when talking to her players throughout the 2022 season which ended with the program无毛视频檚 second district title.
Mandy Hartman is in her 25th year as volleyball coach at Frazier High School and captured her second WPIAL championship on Nov. 5, 2022, downing Serra Catholic. The Lady Commodores have a legacy of success that traces back to Frazier无毛视频檚 first WPIAL volleyball championship in 2010.
The seeds of that 2010 championship run were planted in 2009 when Frazier lost to Jefferson-Morgan to end the season.
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无毛视频淲e worked hard to win the WPIAL that year,无毛视频� former Commodore Giovanna Bitonti said. 无毛视频淕oing into our summer league we knew that was our goal. We wanted to get to the WPIAL championship and we wanted to win it all.无毛视频�
The 2010 season turned out to be a magical run for Frazier as it captured the Section 5 championship and was undefeated heading into the WPIAL playoffs where it was the top seed and the No. 5 team in the state.
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无毛视频淲e had a blast that year,无毛视频� Frazier无毛视频檚 Savannah Prue said. 无毛视频淭hose coaches are absolutely amazing and I know we still go watch Frazier volleyball and when they won the WPIAL title this year some of us were there and were crying and cheering.无毛视频�
无毛视频淭hey really were a true super team in 2010,无毛视频� Hartman offered. 无毛视频淭hey overpowered everybody, they had all the pieces of the puzzle. We had the height, we had the athleticism, we had the toughness, and they were just great kids who put in the time. Those kids worked really hard for me both in the season and in the off-season and they had a refuse-to-lose mentality and I think that无毛视频檚 why they had so much success.无毛视频�
无毛视频淲e had a very good team,无毛视频� Bitonti recalled. 无毛视频淲e worked hard and we worked well together.无毛视频�
无毛视频淲e had five seniors,无毛视频� Pate Todora explained. 无毛视频淲e all had played volleyball with each other since seventh grade and that included travel teams and we were just very close and we were all friends and I think just having that, just the seniors alone, made us unstoppable.无毛视频�
The real strength of the 2010 team was a sense of family that helped form an unbreakable bond.
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无毛视频淭hey were a close-knit group. They still are to this day,无毛视频� Hartman stated. 无毛视频淭his was one of those special teams where when I have a big match even this season and you will see them walking in the gym. We无毛视频檒l be practicing and here comes one of them walking in with their kids.
无毛视频淲e still consider ourselves a family. I无毛视频檓 proud of all of my girls.无毛视频�
The Lady Commodores steamrolled through the WPIAL playoffs, sweeping Brentwood, Shenango and Bentworth all by 3-0 set scores. That set up a WPIAL championship showdown with the undefeated No. 2 seed Bishop Canevin, who Frazier beat 3-0. The Commodores did not lose a set in the WPIAL playoffs.
The other factor that made Frazier unstoppable was coach Mandy Hartman and her able assistant, her husband Don.
无毛视频淚 still to this day tell everybody that she is the best coach not only at Frazier, but in the world,无毛视频� Pato Todora stated. 无毛视频淚 truly believe that, and her husband Don are both exactly want you want to have in a coach.无毛视频�
无毛视频淲e love the Hartmans,无毛视频� Bitonti said. 无毛视频淭hey无毛视频檝e always been more than coaches, they are family.无毛视频�
无毛视频淥h my god I love her,无毛视频� Prue gushed about coach Hartman. 无毛视频淢andy and Don, they were great. They were hard coaches and that无毛视频檚 what made us champions. I think the world of them.无毛视频�
The Frazier season ended with two losses in the PIAA tournament to Clarion Area and Maplewood. The Lady Commodores finished with a record of 19-2 and final ranking of No. 9 in Class A in the state of Pennsylvania.
Coach Hartman still thinks about those PIAA playoffs to this day.
无毛视频淭here is no other district in Pennsylvania that puts their district championship on the pedestal that we do in the WPIAL,无毛视频� Hartman stated. 无毛视频淔or years I struggled when you qualified for the PIAA playoffs and getting kids motivated and keeping them going and sometimes when you end your season.
无毛视频淚t was also the only year that the format of the state championship had changed. We had to go to Slippery Rock and it was like a tournament we played. We had to play like three different schools in one day and if you knew our team we weren无毛视频檛 a team that could go all day long. These girls were explosive, strong, they were powerful and they wore down probably a little quicker than some other teams.无毛视频�
The 2010 team has left it无毛视频檚 mark on Frazier volleyball to this day.
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无毛视频淭he Hartmans are very good coaches,无毛视频� Bitonti said. 无毛视频淭hey always coached very good teams. It really means a lot that we made an impact for the whole town of Perryopolis and that we still motivate the other girls to get to that point.无毛视频�
无毛视频淚t was the beginning of a dynasty with woman无毛视频檚 athletics at Frazier because all of their little girls watched that team,无毛视频� Hartman said. 无毛视频淭hey laid the foundation and we are still seeing the effects from that team today. It无毛视频檚 been an amazing thing to watch and be apart of.无毛视频�
Memories of the 2010 Frazier WPIAL volleyball title linger.
无毛视频淲e had a parade and fire trucks and we rode on the bus,无毛视频� Bitonti recalled. 无毛视频淭he whole town of Perryopolis was on the street cheering for us. We still talk about winning the WPIAL and the parade to this day. We are still very close and I still talk to my teammates.无毛视频�
Frazier notched another WPIAL volleyball title in November 2022, but the program无毛视频檚 bedrock dates back to that 2010 squad.
无毛视频淚 talk about them all the time,无毛视频� coach Hartman explained. 无毛视频淚 hold them as the standard that we want to reach every year and this year we won the WPIAL championship and I talked about that 2010 team and I referenced that team at least once a week. I used them as examples. They will forever be the example 无毛视频� the standard is the standard.无毛视频�
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