Being superstitious, and super energetic, helped new Lady Demon volleyball coach Brittany Uffelman win her head coaching debut Tuesday night.
Ever since she took bus trips with her dad’s high school wrestling powerhouse in Wyoming as a child, Brittany has sat in the front right seat of the first row of any bus she rides. Leaving Tuesday afternoon for the season opener at Louisiana-Lafayette, coach Uffelman claimed that seat.
The lucky charm helped. Her team played poorly in its debut, she thought, especially in the first two games against a Lady Cajun squad that was playing its fourth match of the year. ULL took the first two games.
Uffelman was stern and passionate, players say, in her three-minute talk to the team before game three. The Lady Demons pulled together and swept the three remaining games to take the match, beating the Lady Cajuns for the third straight year.
The team pulled back into the Prather Coliseum lot shortly after midnight. The players scurred off to bed, due back to the weight room at 6:45 a.m. for a workout.
Coach B didn’t wait that long. She jogged the two miles across Cane River to her home in east Natchitoches.
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