Three Hamilton County volleyball players were part of an Academy Boiler Juniors team that won an AAU National Championship earlier this week.
Reese Resmer, an eighth-grader at Noblesville West Middle School, Madi Miles, an eighth-grader at Fall Creek Junior High School and Berit Van Beynen, a freshman at Carmel High School, joined the Academy Boiler Juniors 13 Gold team in winning the 13 Open National Championship at the 2021 AAU Junior National Volleyball Championships, which finished Monday in Orlando, Fla.
This is the club’s third national championship and adds to an impressive list of accolades for the program. Overall, the team has a record of 81-14 for the season. Along with an AAU National Championship, the girls have won many big tournaments this season including Bluegrass, JVA Summerfest, and the Northern Lights Qualifier.
The team is coached by John Shondell and Chandra Hepler. Shondell is the Associate Head Volleyball Coach at Purdue University. Chandra is a former division one player at the University of Missouri and is the current head coach at Warsaw High School.
Boilers Juniors is based in Lafayette and has some of the top teams not only in the state but in the country as well. This is not the end of the season for this team as it will head to the USA Volleyball Girls National Championship in Las Vegas where competition begins June 30.