The CHS Volleyball Team

In January, 2008, the Clarksville High School Volleyball Team received an award from the Presidential  Service Awards Committee from Washington, D.C., {www.presidentialserviceawards.gov}, which was signed by President George W. Bush, for the team’s work with the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office and the TSSAA to reduce traffic deaths by teenagers in Montgomery County, Tennessee. 

The Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle ran the following article on February 26, 2008:

Congresswoman meets with Clarksville High volleyball team

Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn met with the Clarksville High School volleyball team on Feb. 21 to present the team with the Presidential Service Award on behalf of President Bush. The Presidential Service Award is designed to recognize individuals and organizations for outstanding community service.Members of the Clarksville High Volleyball team determined prior to their 2007 season that they wanted to address the rash of teenage traffic deaths in Montgomery County as a team service project. The team joined with the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Office and the TSSAA to present 200 Highway Safety-Volleyball T-shirts to CHS students free of charge.

The members of the 2007 Clarksville High Volleyball team are seniors Kayla Egner, Jaimie Petty, Stacy Powers, Johannah Reed and Sara Tucker; juniors Tifanee Kramer, Heather Spiva, Hannah Swift, Shelby Wallace, and Samantha Weems; sophomores Mackenzie Douglas, Julianne Evans, Lesette Freeman, Megan Houston, Diana Kirby, Brooklyn Lyle, Rebecca Navarre, Jessica Osborne, Chelsea Powers, Leora Smith, Hope Winters and April Wyatt; and freshmen Marissa Adams and Hailee Graham. Coaches are Patty Rye and Jamie DeAnda.