In the fourth year of the program’s existence — and in just the sport’s fifth year of being CHSAA-sanctioned — the Severance boys volleyball team continues to constantly break new ground.
For the first time ever, the Silver Knights have assured themselves a winning record. They’re 17-6 overall after going 11-11 a year ago and a combined 12-30 their first two years.
They clinched their first league title in program history, running through the Class 4A Northern Conference with a perfect 14-0 record.
Beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, they’ll compete in their first postseason. As the fifth overall seed in the 24-team postseason, Severance will play host to a three-team regional that also features No. 12 Mullen (6-17) and No. 20 Alameda (8-11).
And, if all goes well, the Silver Knights will emerge from the regional and compete in their first state tournament May 8-10 at Trojan Arena on the Fountain-Fort Carson High School campus.
Severance boys head volleyball coach LaVerne Huston directs the team while playing Mountain View at home on Tuesday April 29, 2025.(Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)And, for good measure, Severance is also riding a 13-match win streak that dates back to March 18.
“We’re just clicking a little bit better,” the Silver Knights’ legendary coach LaVerne Huston said. “We have some kids that are in their first or second year playing varsity. It sometimes takes until the midseason or longer to start clicking. But we’re developing that confidence, trust in each other and communication. That takes some time when you have inexperienced players out there or kids that are just learning the game.”
These Silver Knights players have shown themselves to be eager learners, quick to adapt under their Hall-of-Fame coach.
Though their strides have been incremental and consistent, players who have been with the team since Day 1 occasionally find themselves pinching themselves while thinking about how they’ve rapidly emerged from a mere upstart program a couple years ago to now being a serious contender.
Severance junior Colin Mayeda works to score while playing Mountain View in Severance on Tuesday April 29, 2025.(Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)“To get all the way here from freshman year is just mind-boggling,” senior setter Gabe Schneekloth said. “I would have never expected to see the growth of this sport, just in Colorado, in general, but also at Severance High School. … Just the growth on this team is tremendous, not even from just freshman year but from last year, as well — even from the beginning of this season.”
Though Schneekloth and his teammates have seen their physical skills on the court develop steadily over the past few years, the team can just as much credit their mental approach for their steady improvement.
“We just have the ‘want’ to win out there,” Schneekloth said. “Everybody is playing for each other. No one’s blaming each other for mistakes. Volleyball is a game of errors. It’s about who is going to get over that error first. And, I think our ‘want’ to win and our passion that is out on the floor for the game of volleyball is unmatched.”
Severance junior Zeke Wawryzniak returns the ball while playing Mountain View in Severance on Tuesday April 29, 2025.(Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)Winning is exactly what Severance has done this spring.
During the Silver Knights’ month-and-a-half-long win streak, they have been pushed to five sets just once. They defeated Mountain View 3-2 in a barnburner April 15 in Loveland to narrowly keep their budding win streak alive.
This past Tuesday, they swept that same Mountain Lions team in their regular season finale.
With that emphatic win, Severance completed a perfect 14-0 campaign in league and assured maximum momentum heading into regionals.
“It’s really special to be league champs, to be undefeated — that’s something that I never thought, in the four years I’ve been here, that we would ever accomplish,” Silver Knights senior Matt Zenger said. “We’ve done it. And it’s a special thing for us.”
Severance senior Gabe Schneekloth sets the ball while playing Mountain View in Severance on Tuesday April 29, 2025.(Jim Rydbom/Staff Photographer)The Silver Knights hope they are not done breaking new ground as a program this spring.
With a pair of wins Saturday at regionals, Severance would qualify for the state tournament for the first time in program history.
As gleeful as the Silver Knights are to have made the strides they have made this spring, Zenger said he and his hungry teammates are hoping the best is yet to come.
“We still have to stay humble. … There are some good volleyball teams out there,” Zenger said. “But I think we’ve got as much potential and as much momentum behind us as we can. We’re going to go in with high expectations and just play our game — stay calm and collected as much as we can going into regionals and, hopefully, going into state.”
Firebirds flying forward
Severance isn’t the only local boys volleyball team reaching new milestones as a program.
Windsor Charter (8-10) is also playing in its first regional tournament this weekend after going a combined 19-47 in its first three years.
The Firebirds (8-10) are the 4A postseason’s 21st seed and were slated to face No. 4 DSST: College View (17-6) and No. 13 Aurora West College Prep Academy (13-8) in the Region 4 tournament at DSST: College View in Denver on Friday night.
Traejan Andrews (left), a former golfer at Northridge High School, juggles a golf ball on one of his clubs during a Grizzlies teams practice Monday, Sept. 9, 2019 at Boomerang Links Golf Course in Greeley. (Anne Delaney/adelaney@greeleytribune.com).Teeing off
Traejan Andrews, a 2022 Northridge High School graduate, is making waves at the men’s college golf level following his standout preps career with the Grizzlies.
Andrews, a junior at Fort Lewis College in Durango, found out a week ago that he’s earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division II West South Central Super Regional May 8-10 at the Victoria Club in Riverside, California.
Competing in nine of Fort Lewis’s 10 tournaments this season, Andrews has registered three finishes inside the Top 20 and four finishes in the Top 50.
He has a 72.2 per-round average.
Wyoming free safety Wyett Ekeler (31) leaps into the air against Utah State during the teams’ Mountain West Conference game Oct. 22, 2022 at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming. Ekeler had his first career interception in the game in Wyoming’s 28-14 win. (Troy Babbitt-UW Media-Athletics)Prime opportunity
Windsor alum Wyett Ekeler will received the chance to follow in the footsteps of his famed older brother, Eaton alum and NFL veteran Austin Ekeler.
Earlier this week, Ekeler, a former safety for the University of Wyoming football team, received invitations to compete in minicamps this spring for the Denver Broncos and Philadelphia Eagles.
Ekeler, a 2020 Windsor graduate, finished his college career with 197 total tackles in 48 games.
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