Bountiful Redhawks volleyball participant Jordyn Harvey poses for a photograph within the Bountiful Excessive Faculty Area Home in Bountiful on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. Harvey is the Deseret Information Ms. Volleyball for 2022. Ben B. Braun, Deseret Information
Bountiful’s Jordyn Harvey seems to be to cross throughout a recreation towards Timpview at Bountiful Excessive on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. A two-sport athlete, Harvey will play school volleyball for Stanford subsequent yr. Yukai Peng, Deseret Information
Bountiful’s Jordyn Harvey hits the ball towards Mountain View in 5A volleyball state championship on the UCCU Middle in Orem on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Shafkat Anowar, Deseret Information
Jordyn Harvey virtually couldn’t imagine what she heard on the telephone in the future within the winter of 2021.
She had dreamed of attending Stanford College since she was 9 years previous. Her mom has photos of her touring the college when she was 13.
Now, right here was Cardinal volleyball head coach Kevin Hambly on the telephone providing her a scholarship to her dream college to be a part of one of the dominant groups within the nation.
Harvey, a senior outdoors hitter for the Bountiful Excessive Redhawks, earned that supply after years of dominant performances of her personal, which additionally resulted in her being named Deseret Information Ms. Volleyball 2022.
“This season was actually a end result of 4 years of arduous work,” Bountiful coach Sarah Chism stated. “4 years of enchancment, yr over yr, grinding it out, staying team-focused and striving to be one of the best that she may very well be for Bountiful. ... It was enjoyable to see her turn into an all-around participant.”
Harvey ended her volleyball profession as among the finest killers in state historical past. On 1,011 makes an attempt, she racked up 480 kills in her senior season, a 47.5% kill share that outdid her junior season by over 6%. This was a part of a profession variety of 1,533 kills in 4 years, the fifth most in state historical past.
Harvey hit the 1,500-kill mark within the Redhawks’ quarterfinal matchup towards Timpanogos within the 5A state event, a match they gained 3-0. The crew swept 27 of its 31 matches this season, in no small half as a result of bother each crew had doing battle with Harvey, Chism stated.
“Jordyn, as a degree scorer, is the place she actually makes an enormous distinction as a result of she calls for consideration each time the ball is exchanged,” Chism stated. “She’s both going to attain the purpose herself or require sufficient consideration that it frees up another gamers to make a distinction. She positively has an influence on each level that we rating.”
A crimson balloon floated within the rafters of the fieldhouse at Bountiful Excessive a number of days after drifting from the desk the place Harvey signed her nationwide letter of intent to Stanford on Nov. 9. It marked the success of a purpose she had going again to when she was 13 years previous enjoying membership volleyball with future teammates.
Rising up, volleyball wasn’t the quick favourite for Harvey, however over time, she felt extra like a pure on the sport than the rest, together with basketball. Harvey stays a drive within the fitness center throughout the winter months, scoring 13 factors for the Redhawks ladies’ basketball crew in its season opener this yr.
Bountiful’s Jordyn Harvey seems to be to cross throughout a recreation towards Timpview at Bountiful Excessive on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. A two-sport athlete, Harvey will play school volleyball for Stanford subsequent yr.
Yukai Peng, Deseret Information
“I believe, in the future, I simply awoke and I spotted I loved going to volleyball apply slightly bit greater than I favored basketball,” Harvey stated. “Volleyball was extra my circulate. I felt like I regarded cooler. I felt smoother. I felt like I regarded extra like a volleyball participant. … Volleyball was one thing I noticed myself doing sooner or later.”
To at the present time, the sentiments Harvey has stepping onto a volleyball courtroom are as optimistic as they're palpable.
“It’s like a way of being grateful,” Harvey stated. “I’m grateful that I’ve been given the physique that I've. I’m grateful that I've the help from my mother and father and my teammates to step on the courtroom and get higher day-after-day. Each time I step on the courtroom, I've the considered what I’m going to work on, what I’m going to enhance, what am I’m going to fail at in order that I can enhance on it later.”
Stanford, well-known for its teachers, requires athletes to get accepted to the college on their very own talents. For Harvey, this meant working as arduous off the courtroom as she did on it at one of many few excessive colleges in Utah providing Superior Placement and Worldwide Baccalaureate programs.
“I’m not simply an athlete going to a college as an athlete,” Harvey stated. “I really needed to work arduous as a scholar. It’s extra significant to me … 13-year-old Jordyn could be super-proud.”
Harvey completed her profession at Bountiful with three semifinal appearances and one 5A state title.
Bountiful’s Jordyn Harvey hits the ball towards Mountain View in 5A volleyball state championship on the UCCU Middle in Orem on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021.
Shafkat Anowar, Deseret Information