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WELLINGTON:<\/strong> Since Lianne Rogers was a little girl beginning the sport of volleyball, she has only ever wanted to wear the Maroon and White of the Saint Mary\u2019s Huskies. Now, that dream has become reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Huskies women\u2019s volleyball team officially announced the signing and commitment of Rogers, a Wellington native, to the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) squad beginning in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s something I’ve been working forward to forever, so I’m super excited about it and just happy to go to the school that I’ve been wanting to play with,\u201d Rogers told The Laker News in an interview at the Fall River Tim\u2019s recently. \u201cI just feel it’s going to be really good fit for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She admitted her eyes were only on playing with SMU, and anywhere else was not even on her radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPretty early on I sent an email to the coach,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her yearning to be a Huskie began after attending a SMU volleyball camp when she was about eight years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI used to do the SMU camps when I was younger and that’s how I figured out that I wanted to play for them,\u201d said Rogers. \u201cIt was the girls volleyball team that used to coach the camps and I was like I want to be like those girls one day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n She was invited to come practice with them this past summer. It allowed her to gauge what work lays ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI got to get some training in and just kind of see what it was about,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was really fun and good experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rogers will be taking the social justice and community studies program. SMU is the only school in the Maritimes that has that program, one Rogers has had her heart set on for some time. So that was another thing that sealed the deal on studying just 20 minutes from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI’m really happy about that and just also being home and being able to see my parents a lot,\u201d said Rogers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What was the reaction of her friends to her SMU news?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey are super excited for me,\u201d she said. \u201cAs soon as I knew I told my best friends and then I had to keep it a secret.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She knows she has a lot of work ahead to make the adjustment needed to the AUS game but is ready to do what it takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt’s definitely a huge transition,\u201d said Rogers. \u201cI definitely do feel like I’m going in like terrified, but also like at the same time my expectations are just to go and work as hard as I can and just get better in my first year. I don’t have any expectations for anything in the first year it will really be about getting the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”105″] [adrotate banner=”78″] WELLINGTON: Since Lianne Rogers was a little girl beginning the sport of volleyball, she has only ever wanted to wear the Maroon and White of the Saint Mary\u2019s Huskies. Now, that dream has become reality. 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