![]() “It was nice to see everyone come out to support us and want to see us do so well. “The whole town was into it, not just the school or us as a volleyball team. “It’s a big milestone for our school,” Kellert said. ![]() The population inside the gym was greater than outside it in Shinglehouse that night. ![]() They won their first ever state playoff match, too, on Tuesday in the packed high school gymnasium, outlasting Serra Catholic in a five-set thriller to move on to the PIAA Class A quarterfinals. They won their first ever District 9 championship, drowning Elk County Catholic in a flood of kills with imposing threats at the net in Kellert and Olivia Cook. The Green Wave have been a tsunami this season, sweeping through their schedule with a perfect record. “There’s not much to do here,” said senior Avaree Kellert, laughing, “except play volleyball.” So, too, is Fielder Jones, an aptly named Major League Baseball player-manager who led the Chicago White Sox to the 1906 World Series championship.īut these days in Shinglehouse - and at Oswayo Valley High School in particular - volleyball is king. The first Miss America, Myrtl Meriwether, is from there. One could throw a rock from town-center and nearly hit New York state. It’s the only town in the United States that bears the name Shinglehouse. (EYT/D9) - Nestled in a valley where the Oswayo River and the Honeoye Creek converge is a borough in Potter County of about 1,250 people.
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