PRINEVILLE — Nerves were high on Senior Night at Crook County for everyone except one person.
Hannah Nizich was certainly nervous as she watched her younger sister stand on the baseline, preparing to serve in Wednesday night’s volleyball match against Ridgeview.
Nizich even told her as much while they were preparing for the Senior Night ceremony before the match.
“I told her I’d be nervous,” Nizich said.
Paige Wood, however, was completely calm.
Excited, even.
“At the end of the day,” Wood said, “it just felt natural.”
She tossed the ball over her head and served it across the net, officially starting the match. The Ravens returned the ball and scored the first point.
And just like that, Wood, a once-promising volleyball player who was involved in a near-fatal car accident 14 months ago, was subbed out, bringing her high school volleyball career to a close.
Her time on the court this season lasted less than a minute. But making it back to the court at all was a triumph.…