Skylar Skinner found her share of targets Thursday night during a 21-25, 25-20, 25-14 victory over visiting Marian Catholic in Flossmoor.
“She practiced with us quite a bit,” St. Leger said of Skinner. “She’d dress and play with us in tournaments, and then she came up at the end of the season.”
Marian Catholic's Carrington Smith serves Homewood-Flossmoor during a nonconference match in Flossmoor on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023.“As long as I’ve been doing this, I’ve never coached a more competitive athlete,” St. Leger said. “I’ve coached other people who were as competitive. But no one has ever been more competitive.“She just plays extremely hard. She plays crazy good defense, which for a setter is kind of rare. Her work ethic in the offseason is great. She’s in the gym all the time.
Homewood-Flossmoor's Skylar Skinner hustles to the ball against Marian Catholic during a nonconference match in Flossmoor on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023.doubles as a sophomore assistant in girls volleyball. She started Skinner at shortstop this past spring, and Skinner responded with a fielding percentage over .900.
“She had the same high-level IQ on the softball field,” Zimmerman said. “She’s just that natural leader. Everyone looks for her to make the big play, and she always does. “At H-F, all the kids are involved with everything. We want to promote that, so Bob and I work together. We work with Skylar, and she has the maturity to communicate with us in that way. We don’t want her to have to choose until she’s ready to.”“The hardest part of setting is deciding who I am going to set to,” Skinner said, smiling. “We have so many good hitters up there. It’s a hard decision.”
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