‘Together since day one’: Bonded Shen boys’ varsity volleyball earns fifth straight sectional title in sweep of Shaker

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — As the entirety of the Shenendehowa boys’ varsity volleyball team hoisted the Section 2 Division I championship trophy for its sweep of Shaker, players and coaches alike chanted, “1-2-3 Family”. The Mustangs’ closeness on all levels of the program is why they cruised to their fifth straight sectional title. “Shen volleyball family, it’s unbeaten,” senior setter Andrew Borgman, who stacked the stat sheet with 38 assists, said. “We’ve been together since day one, and that’s why we’re family.” After the game’s conclusion and when celebrations wound down, Shen head coach John Coletta posed for a picture with his own family, which includes senior Jackson Coletta, who, like Borgman, also won a sectional championship once again in his last year. “It’s everything. It really is everything,” John Coletta said. “Right from the start, we say to the guys we want to be great people and do our best, and they took it a step further and said we want to be a family.

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