High school volleyball player 'kills' 10-year-record
McKinnon hits her 700th kill. Photos by Kat Sheridan
The crowd celebrates McKinnon's 700th kill. 
McKinnon spikes the ball. 
McKinnon celebrates a point. 
The crowd celebrates McKinnon. 
McKinnon hits the ball.
McKinnon jumps to hit the ball. 
McKinnon runs out onto the court.
McKinnon hits her 700th kill. Photos by Kat Sheridan
The crowd celebrates McKinnon's 700th kill.
McKinnon spikes the ball.
McKinnon celebrates a point.
The crowd celebrates McKinnon.
McKinnon hits the ball.
McKinnon jumps to hit the ball.
McKinnon runs out onto the court.
Chloe McKinnon, the co-captain for the girls volleyball team at Dartmouth High School, broke the 10-year record for kills, which is an unreturnable spike into the opposing team's court that scores a point.
She beat the record with 683 kills on Monday, Oct. 20. At the next game on Wednesday, Oct. 22 she continued to beat her record with 23 more kills for a total of 706. The crowd was prepared with posters stating “700” and her face for when she hit her 700th kill.
McKinnon, now a senior, has been playing volleyball since the eighth grade, and has been on the varsity team since her sophomore year.
Reporter Kat Sheridan talked to McKinnon and her coach, Rachel Lassey, about what breaking this record means.
Q: How does it feel to break the 10-year-record?
McKinnon: It feels amazing. The environment brings so much support, I feel loved by everyone on my team, the crowd. It’s amazing to hold the record.
Q: How do you feel about Chloe beating the record?
Lassey: Absolutely awesome. This is a record that is going to take a very long time, the last one lasted 10 years. She keeps chipping away each game and adding more and more. I think it’s going to be very challenging to beat. I’m very happy for her.
Q: Tell me about yourself.
McKinnon: I’m a very quiet person, I feel like this environment brings the best out of me.
Q: Tell me about Chloe.
Lassey: Chloe is what I like to call a silent assassin. She is not going to gloat, she’s a very humble person. She gets right back into it. She makes a mistake, she moves on, she gets right back to the next one. You don’t really see Chloe get in her head too much, and she gets the job done. She’s been outstanding defensively and on serve-receive, and she’s been tearing up the back row.
Q: What do you love about volleyball?
McKinnon: The family you create along the way. Everyone on this team I talk to outside of it, I feel loved by every single person. The coaches, it feels like a second home.
Q: What did you think of the crowd, the mass support for hitting that milestone?
McKinnon: I felt very loved, I didn’t expect to see that many people holding up stuff, pictures of me. Feel very loved.
Q: Anything else you want to add?
McKinnon: Just living in the moment each day, it’s going to be memories I’m hoping to remember for the rest of my life.
Q: What are your next steps?
McKinnon: I’m hoping to play in college, but I want to major in chiropracting or physical therapy. Don’t know where yet.
