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Renae Faford, daughter to Heather and Roger Faford, of Carlyle will be headed to Devils Lake, North Dakota, on a partial volleyball scholarship.

Set to become a Lady Royal volleyball player with the Lake Region State College, Renae will be headed to Devils Lake in August to begin training.

Renae started playing in grade seven and simply fell in love with the sport. In grade eight she was asked to play up by Trent Johnson as the team needed a setter and he felt she had potential in this area of the game.

"Trent Johnson in grade 8 [asked me to]. They needed a setter apparently so he asked me if I wanted to be the setter and I didn't even know what I was doing at the time, but I said okay, and it kind of just went from there," Renae explained.

Over the past five years Renae has had multiple coaches through both school volleyball and club volleyball.

"I've been on a few different teams for club. I originally started with the Fusion's team coached by Audra Reeves, and then I went to Mickey [Adams], and then to Bree [Ryan], and then to Wolseley [with Randy Clark,]" Renae explained.

Adams was the coach of the 麻豆视频east Stingers, a highly skilled club volleyball organization, which has since ended. Adams is known for developing solid players though, while Ryan has experience playing in the states and coached Renae out of G.F. Kells as well as club. Ryan herself is an adept volleyball player who is able to break down skills having helped many youth develop in the three years she coached at the school and through one club season.

Developed as a setter, Renae, is essentially the quarterback on the court. Needing to be in on every play, she chooses the hitter to deliver the ball to and is in charge of calling plays.

Though this position is extremely important to the game, it is one that not everyone wants to play, with most wanting to be a hitter.

"There's not really many people that want to set, so I had a lot of opportunities to set," Renae explained, which has helped her gain much experience over the years giving her the abilities to obtain a scholarship to Lake Region State College.

Renae had spoken to other college's including one in Kansas, where Annessa Hannem of Arcola had attended last year.

"I didn't want to go that far. Four hours is good enough," Renae laughed. "If I had to get on a plane to move I don't think I want to go."

Interest in Devils Lake peaked last year when the Lake Region scout approached Renae thinking she was already in grade 12. She wasn't, so the recruitment was dropped, but it left Renae wondering if it could still be an option going into the fall following her grade 12 year.

"Last year [the scout] contacted me because she thought I was in grade 12, so when it came to this year I kind of had that in the back of my mind and emailed the coach," Renae explained. "I went up at Thanksgiving and had a recruit trip and then after that I kind of just decided I wanted to go there and play."

The decision was somewhat difficult as she had been accepted into Education at the University of Regina which is a direct entry program, but the appeal of playing volleyball won her over and she will be working towards a Liberal Arts Transfer Degree, which allows her to take her first two years of a Bachelor of Arts at the college.

"It's only a college so it's kind of like the first step towards getting into Education," Renae explained.

Still planning to pursue teaching, she says she will do her two years at Devils Lake and see if the plans for her future change in this time.

"[I'll take] two years Liberal Arts and see what happens from there," Renae smiled.

Renae currently has a busy schedule as she works at the Crescent Point Leisure Complex and is working through a training booklet from the volleyball program at Lake Region to prepare for the preseason training which begins in August.

"I have to be down there Aug 3," Renae said. "From what I know, we do preseason for two weeks in August and then I think we just start more practicing. I know for the first two weeks the morning is conditioning, then the afternoon is drills, and then the evening is position training."

"I'll be honest I'm kind of scared but we have this training book I'm trying to get through for when I get there because we're supposed to be in good shape when we get there but I guess we'll see. It will be an intense two weeks but it will be good."

Coach of the Lady Royals in Devils Lake, Brigitte Freschette, is excited to have the Carlyle native join the team.