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swings into Jazz Seminar week

For The Pitt News After months of practice online, the Pitt Jazz Ensemble is kicking off Jazz Seminar week with its first performance of the semester.

The Jazz Seminar, an annual tradition now marking its 51st year on campus, consists of performances, lectures and discussions to celebrate jazz music. The student ensemble started off the week with a concert on Monday live-streamed on YouTube.

The ensemble is composed of Pitt students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds.

Members dedicate their time and talent toward the ensemble to practice and perform jazz.

Hayden Orth, a senior physics major who plays trumpet, said the ensemble’s virtual rehearsals hardly compared to playing in person.

“We used to meet in the music building before COVID,” Orth said. “Then, last year we were only remote, so we held Zoom rehearsals twice a week. We still were able to rehearse and feel like a community, but like any Zoom class, it feels like less of a real space.”

The virtual format was an obstacle that threatened the routine of their regular rehearsals, according to Orth.

“Over Zoom, it’s impossible to do any playing together … we would just do thirty minutes at a

time of each section,” Orth said. “We made video recordings by each of us separately recording ourselves and our professor putting them together.

You just had to make the best of what you had.”

Ralph Guzzi, ensemble director, painstakingly compiled individual student recordings into one cohesive video — such as the group’s remote rendition of “Mr. Parker’s Shoes.”

Orth said he yearned for a return to the ensemble’s old ways, reminiscing about a time before the pandemic.

“My favorite thing about playing in a jazz band is getting together with a group of people and creating something, and that just didn’t exist over Zoom,” Orth said. “The concert isn’t the best part of jazz band to me — what’s fulfilling about jazz band for me is going in every week and rehearsing, hanging out with the people in the jazz band, and playing together.”

Ron Rohlsen, the ensemble’s student president and baritone saxophonist, is also enthusiastic to get into the swing of things. The ensemble met during the fall semester in a makeshift rehearsal space behind the Music Building. Rohlsen said the group has been easing back into its pre-pandemic routine.

“It had its ups and downs,” Rohlsen, junior economics and political science major, said.

“There’s a lot of accommodations, and everything

A percussionist plays the drums during the Monday night performance of Pitt’s student Jazz Ensemble. Clare Sheedy assistant visual editor

we need is in that room. It gets a little cold sometimes, but it could be a lot worse.”

Orth expressed his excitement to once again play together in the same room as his bandmates.

“Being able to get together and create music again is really great,” Orth said. “[Monday’s performance] is definitely a step in the right direction of bringing back the magic of live music, for the audience and performers.”

Despite last semester’s shortcomings, Rohlsen explained that the ensemble’s return to in-person rehearsals was preferable to the remote format.

“It was very, very inefficient, but it’s all that we had. For the perfectionists in the band, it could take hours to record your part, and if you messed up one thing, you had to start all over,” Rohlsen said. “I don’t know how [Guzzi] did it.”

The ensemble draws students from diverse disciplines, according to Rohlsen.

“For as long as I’ve been in the band, we haven’t had a music major in it. It’s really whoever.

We have auditions at the start of each semester,” Rohlsen said. “If you come in, we have an opening, and we think you would be good to fit that opening, you get the spot.”

Rohlsen reflected on his leadership as president, and said he was glad to leave a mark on the Saxophone players in Pitt’s Jazz Ensemble practice before their Monday ensemble. evening performance. Romita Das senior staff photographer “I send out a lot of emails, either reminders for

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upcoming concerts and rehearsals,” Rohlsen said.

“I’ve been in the ensemble since freshman year, in my first semester here. It’s nice to know that I’m contributing to an organization I care about.”

Rohlsen said Monday’s performance represented more than a concert — it showed the ensemble’s resilience and dedication.

“To me, it represents an ability to persist past the difficult times that we’re all in,” Rohlsen said.

“We get the chance to play, and the fact that we can do that shows that there is some kind of commitment to overcoming the obstacles.”

Ricky Lipinski, the ensemble’s vice president and a senior environmental science major, said the annual performance holds sentimental value for him.

“Kicking off the Pittsburgh Jazz Seminar and Concert week will always mean a lot to me,” he said. “It’s a tradition I will always cherish,” Lipinski said. “I've been a part of this group since my first day at Pitt almost four years ago, and it has definitely been a highlight of my time here.”

Lipinski said he thinks the future of the student jazz ensemble is bright, particularly after all they’ve been through in the pandemic.

“I know the ensemble is in good hands with the younger students, and I'm sure they will keep the Pitt Jazz Ensemble alive and well,” Lipinski said.

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Pitt to host 51st annual jazz seminar honoring Pittsburgh pianist Erroll Garner Jessica McKenzie Senior Staff Writer

Orrin Evans can’t remember a time when he wasn’t making music on the piano. The Philadelphia-based professional jazz pianist said if someone is meant to be a musician, the career chooses them.

“I don’t think you can necessarily pursue a career in the arts,” Evans said. “I think whatever the art form is, it finds you and gives itself to you.

I wasn’t seeking a career as a jazz musician, but it came to me.”

Evans is one of the featured musicians during Pitt’s 51st annual jazz seminar and concert running from Jan. 24 to 29. The seminar celebrates the legacy of Erroll Garner, an accomplished jazz pianist native to Pittsburgh who died in 1977.

He would have been 100 years old last year. Pitt delayed the celebration in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, all events will be streamed live on YouTube.

The seminar will include several performances throughout the week, an episode of the

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“Jazz Talk” podcast discussing the University’s Erroll Garner archive —which the University curated in 2015 after the death of his longtime manager, Martha Glaser, in December 2014 — on Wednesday and a musicians’ rights panel on Thursday.

Evans will be part of performances throughout the week tributing to Garner’s compositions, as well as the Jazz Talk episode and musicians’ rights panel. He said he is most excited for the seminar because it will give him the chance to connect with other musicians.

“I’m excited to be making music with new people. I know the musicians I'm playing with, just because we know each other from the musical world, but I don't get a chance to play with them often,” Evans said. “I'm always excited when new people get together and create music.

It's always a special time for me.”

Evans is scheduled for a collaborative performance on Saturday evening with bassist Jeff Grubbs, drummer James Johnson III and flutist Nicole Mitchell Gantt — who is director of Pitt’s jazz studies program. Evans said he is looking

forward to performing music from Garner’s discography, especially pieces from Garner’s record, “Concert By the Sea.” “‘Concert By the Sea’ was one of the first records I ever purchased. My father used to listen to it a lot,” Evans said. “Erroll Garner’s approach to music and his piano playing was definitely a part of my upbringing and my introduction into music in general.”

Irene Monteverde, a pianist and jazz graduate student who is pursuing her doctorate at Pitt, was drawn to the jazz studies program because of Pittsburgh’s rich jazz history, especially in the Hill District. Her doctorate is concentrated on studying Garner’s legacy within the University’s archive.

Monteverde participated in the kickoff performance on Monday. She will also be a guest on the Jazz Talk episode on Wednesday, as well as a featured keynote speaker after the panel on Thursday. She said she chose to study Garner because she has always been drawn to his music.

“I just really love his music. I could listen to him forever and not get sick of it. When an artist

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really captures you and amazes you, it's kind of a no brainer,” Monteverde said. “His music just has a light, bouncy quality that makes people feel happy. It's the big, joyous sound that's rooted in Black music and Black culture.”

According to Monteverde, Pitt’s Garner archive includes documents beyond his music. It also features old concert advertisements, legal documents, Garner’s old tape cassettes as well as his personal sketches.

“The archive has some of Garner’s doodles, but they’re way better than I could ever do. These are things that he was meditating on,” Monteverde said. “One of them is a cool-looking bird with a music note as a face. It's got all these pastel colored pencils. It’s amazing to see inside his incredible imagination.”

Gantt, the founder of the Jazz Talk podcast, said she is thrilled to pay tribute to Garner by playing his compositions this week.

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News Gallagher talks Omicron,

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spring semester in TPN interview

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The Pitt News Staff Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said although COVID-19 cases have been elevated since the start of the spring semester due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant, he is expecting “much better numbers in the next four weeks or so.” According to data from The New York Times, Omicron cases have peaked in both Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh metro area.

“We just looked at it this morning. Yes, both the student population and the faculty-staff populations are following the same trend,” Gallagher said. “The wild card here is the students, because when you have a big cohort come back, they’re coming from different parts of the country which are at different parts of the peak, so initially they’re gonna be at the same place as wherever they came from.”

Gallagher spoke with The Pitt News for about 20 minutes on Tuesday about the Omicron COVID-19 variant, recent faculty unionization vote and college experience during a pandemic.

The interview was the first time the chancellor took questions from The Pitt News since early September.

“None of us wanted an Omicron” The chancellor said given the situation, he thinks things have gone “relatively OK” so far during the spring semester.

“None of us wanted an Omicron. We had had a pretty good fall semester,” Gallagher said.

“But if the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that it's unpredictable and you have to be pretty agile. Omicron was yet another new wrinkle.”

Students arrived on campus in three batches this spring, and entered a shelter-in-place which is lifting on Thursday. Gallagher said “availability of testing” led to the decision to spread out arrival, and classes began remotely to “make sure there weren’t some students who could go to class and others that couldn’t.”

“We really wanted to make sure we could robustly test and sort of establish a baseline, and make sure we could create localized outbreaks from that,” Gallagher said. “It was availability of

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testing that forced us into this three-arrival cohort. … The numbers seem to be supporting that the strategy was pretty effective.”

Gallagher said he is hoping for a return to a more regular semester by the end of this week.

“I’m looking forward to getting back into — I’m not going to say more normal because who even knows what that means anymore — but a more typical and hopefully more productive term,” Gallagher said.

“The flexibility needs are there” The chancellor also provided a brief update on Pitt’s permanent vaccination policy, which remains a work in progress. The University convened a committee with various shared governance representatives, including Senate Council President Robin Kear, last semester to write the permanent policy and they have met at least once. Pitt is currently operating on an interim policy, which required students, faculty and staff to complete a series of COVID-19 vaccine doses before Dec. 6.

“We’ll know more once the group has offered a draft. The good news is we have an interim policy that’s in place,” Gallagher said. “If we had to, we could make adjustments to the interim, even while this other process is playing out.”

Gallagher added that Pitt currently defines vaccination as completion of an initial dosage series, but noted that many scientists have been saying it is time to update that definition to include the emergence of booster doses. He said this is something the committee is discussing.

The chancellor said he is in the “as soon as possible camp” for completing the permanent policy, at the same time that “no one wants the administration to ramrod it, either.”

“The real thing that I focus on is I don’t want the enforcement side — in other words, the requirement or mandate side — to be the only thing that drives what we do,” Gallagher said.

“We’re not waiting to push boosters until that process is done. We’ve been hosting a lot of vaccination clinics, both the continuous ones on Fifth Avenue but also large-scale booster clinics.”

“We’ve really ramped up our educational efforts to make sure that all of our students, faculty

and staff know that the best thing they can do to protect their own health is to … make sure they’re up to date with their immunization,” he added.

Even with Pitt’s vaccination percentage in the high 90s, some professors with young children at home — some too young to be vaccinated against the virus — are wary about catching COVID-19 on campus and bringing it home.

Gallagher said there are a myriad of reasons for why the University must remain flexible during the pandemic.

“What I think is starting to happen is we’re seeing a limit to how much of the flexibility can be established by a University-wide policy. There’s simply so much variety in classroom types, courses, but also in the services we provide,” Gallagher said. “What we’ve really been trying to do is push the responsibility for being flexible to the people who can apply it in a way that makes the most sense under the circumstances. What that means, increasingly, is first-line supervisors and faculty.”

Faculty union Work flexibility will likely come up as a point of bargaining, as the recently formed faculty union begins negotiations with the University administration. Faculty voted by a wide margin in October to unionize, following years of campaigning and previous failed attempts. While the chancellor said it’s too early to outline any sort of timeline on the negotiations, he said he hopes for an open relationship between the faculty union and administration, as well as clear communication.

“Our approach is we think the union and the faculty want the same thing we do, which is what’s best for the University of Pittsburgh. So we’re approaching this in the spirit of openness and good faith. I’m looking forward to working with them,” Gallagher said. “I see no reason why we can’t work together to make sure this is the best University we can be.”

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pened in Pittsburgh.”

Private developer Walnut Capital’s controversial Oakland Crossings proposal would rezone about 17 acres of Central Oakland, and has drawn differing reactions from community groups and residents. The project would make way for a grocery store, high density “walk to work” housing and a pedestrian bridge across the Boulevard of the Allies, among other changes.

Zoning legislation to enable the plan is currently before the City Planning Commission, and Mayor Ed Gainey spoke at a Tuesday evening community meeting about the project, and will hold his own meeting next week. Pitt is partnering with Walnut Capital on some elements of the project, such as demolishing a series of Bates Street row houses and redeveloping a Universityowned property at 3401 Boulevard of the Allies into a grocery store and residential housing.

Gallagher said the entire Pitt community is a stakeholder in this proposal as the development is “close to home'' and “our neighborhood, too.”

He said Pitt takes being a stakeholder seriously and wants to see positive development in the Oakland area.

“There are different viewpoints, there always are in these sorts of things. And we’ll continue to be a good partner — these are our neighbors and that doesn’t change. We’d like to see improvements to Oakland for everyone,” Gallagher said.

“We’ve agreed that equitable development and one that addresses some of the long-term needs like food availability and walk-to-work housing, affordable housing and other types of options are important. I think Mayor Gainey’s efforts to make sure that that engagement has been robust are applauded and we’re looking forward to participating in that.”

Commencement planned to be in person With graduation looming for seniors in May, Gallagher said commencement plans are in the works and are being handled by the provost’s office. He said, circumstances permitting, the University is planning on in-person graduation.

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PROFESSORS EXPERIMENT WITH UNGRADED COURSES Donata Massimiani Staff Writer

After watching her students struggle throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Kat Lieder felt it was time to implement some changes in her classroom.

Lieder, a visiting professor of contemporary global studies, wanted to form better relationships with her students and began using the “ungrading” course model last spring.

“It was an acknowledgment of the challenges we’re all facing, but also a chance to focus more on learning for the sake of learning, instead of learning for the sake of getting a good grade,” Lieder said.

Some professors at Pitt have begun moving away from operating their courses in a traditional, graded manner and are experimenting with two new approaches called specifications grading and ungrading.

Lieder, who uses the ungrading system, said students are not graded on their assignments rather they determine what their final grade will be in consultation with their professor at the end of the semester.

Scott Kiesling, a professor of linguistics who chairs that department, uses the specifications grading method. He said final grades are determined by how many assignments a student completes, and each assignment is not graded.

“Specifications grading in short is based on how much you complete, not how well you complete it,” Kiesling said.

“In my classes you either get a one or a

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zero. If they turn it in they get a one, and if they don’t, they get a zero.”

Kiesling said he began exploring specifications grading at the end of the 2020-21 academic year. He contemplated what purpose grading served for both him and his students, and realized it did not help their learning.

“The feedback you get from grades doesn’t help, and the only thing it’s there for is for other people to be able to sort and judge students,” Kiesling said. “That kind of troubled me given that my goal is to be inclusive.”

Lieder said she sets goals with her students at the beginning of the semester based on their “desires and needs” for the course, and does not grade a single assignment. At the end of the semester, students put together a portfolio of their work, write a brief statement about whether they think they met their goals set at the beginning of the semester and communicate what grade they think they deserve.

“Students evaluate one another’s work, they talk with me about what they think is going on orally and they can ask me for more specific feedback if they’d think it would be helpful,” Lieder said. “I do it face to face so it’s a conversation, rather than me telling them what’s right and wrong.”

Lieder said her students responded to the ungrading model “very positively,” but some showed initial hesitation.

“With my students who were used to getting A’s in their classes, they sometimes get nervous at the beginning of the semester because they’re so used to ex-

ternal approval being how they measure their self-worth,” Lieder said. “Part of ungrading is teaching students that your self-worth shouldn’t be based on someone else. It should be based on you.”

Maja Lynn, a senior anthropology and museum studies major, took Lieder’s global studies capstone course this past fall. She said she “really enjoyed” the way the course was run, and that the positive relationship with her professor motivated her to want to produce better work.

“Initially it was intimidating for students to not have a measurement on our work, but I think it was actually more motivating because you have the space to decide what matters to you or what directions you want to take things in,” Lynn said. “The pressure is off to satisfy a professor and instead you’re satisfying your own intellectual needs.”

Lynn said she thinks her experience taking the course was beneficial because she had more control over what she was doing. Despite not receiving grades, Lynn said the workload was equivalent to traditionally run courses and each student produced nearly 50 pages of written work by the end of the semester.

“It doesn't mean you aren't expected to produce work — I was still expected to give a final portfolio, assess my own work and talk about what I believed I deserved for a grade,” Lynn said. “There's still expectations and there's still a high level of engagement.”

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course material.

“They focus on the content more rather than worrying about whether they’re doing it in the way I want them to do it,” Kiesling said. “I think I’ve actually seen an increase in motivation in terms of engagement with the material rather than a decrease.”

Kiesling said specifications grading restored his love for teaching. He said it allows for students to take ownership of their learning and thinks it’s “something everybody should try.”

“We have to make the material available, we have to give activities that promote learning and we still have to be as thoughtful as before in designing the courses, but it’s up to students to engage with the material and do the learning,” Kiesling said. “I think every class has the potential for that.”

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Students should grade themselves

Andrea Pauliuc For The Pitt News

Colleges almost always pitch themselves as centers of progress, opportunity and radical change.

But the majority of universities still cling to traditional grading schemes where students have little to no autonomy in their final scores. This is despite studies continuously showing that giving students the ability to define their own grades can alleviate student anxiety, reduce incidences of cheating, increase confidence and improve study skills.

Allowing students to decide their own grades helps promote deeper learning, development of judgment skills, critical reflection and the cultivation of academic confidence. When I took a course last semester that graded entirely based off of self-assessment, I benefited much more than I anticipated because I was thinking critically, passionate about the course and less anxious about my final grade.

As students, there’s a debilitating pressure that comes with the potential of a terrible grade. Academic grades are much more than a letter on our transcript. For some students like myself, who are here at Pitt on merit-based scholarships, a lower grade could mean a loss in our financial support. In other cases, a lower grade could mean having to retake a class, which could result in spending another year at Pitt. It is important to recognize that to some extent, college is a transaction — and a very expensive one at that. Receiving an unwarranted low grade can affect students’ futures — it doesn’t simply occur in a vacuum.

Prior to the class in which I graded myself, I believed it was a cop out.

But my honest experience in this class proved to be quite the opposite. The way the class structure went was typical —

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the only difference was that our final grade was determined by us. Our instructor still graded all our assignments and gave us feedback, but students decided the grade in the end. With each assignment, we self-reflected on how we did, what we did well and how we could improve.

better thinker.

There’s an overwhelming amount of educators who also agree that students deserve to grade themselves. Nelta Edwards, a sociology professor at the University of Alaska, sees one major overarching benefit to student self-grading — it reduces student-teacher conflict by

a chance for universities to reassess how outdated current grading schemes are, and begin moving toward new grading alternatives.

Changing grading policies is not out of the ordinary, as shown during the pandemic. Universities including Pitt changed their previous grading policies, allowing students to receive a “W” grade if their studies were impacted by the pandemic. This is proof in itself that universities are not bound to traditional grading schemes. If Pitt can alter its grading policies for a pandemic, moving toward more progressive, flexible grading is not that much of an ask.

Instead of clinging to traditional grading schemes, universities should empower students by allowing them to grade themselves. They should also recognize that grades are much more than random letters on a transcript — and their policies need to reflect as such.

Self-grading comes with an increase in confidence, eagerness and ease in students. More importantly, by alleviating the anxiety that comes with academics, we learn more. Is that not the point of education, after all?

Andrea Pauliuc writes primarily about urban issues, community empowerment and politics. Write to her at aap98@pitt. edu.

Lauren Posey staff illustrator This course — out of all the courses I’ve taken at Pitt — was the one I felt like I actually learned the most in largely because I wasn’t focused on the pressure of not knowing my final grade. With each assignment, I felt more confident, more introspective and more eager to learn. Lifting that pressure granted me academic potential that I never experienced beforehand. Almost immediately, I became not just a better writer but a

making students feel empowered with their own grades. Edwards isn’t the only proponent of this education style either. Madeline Grimm argues in Inside Higher Ed that instructors should consider restructuring traditional grading schemes, as many universities did during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grimm writes that self-assessment can become more than just an emergency measure adopted during hard times. Rather, it is

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Sports ‘Excited to compete’: Transfer Julianna Dalton

Men’s basketball vs.

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Senior Staff Writer

Less than one month after concluding its record-breaking NCAA tournament run, Pitt volleyball has already begun the biggest rebuild in recent memory.

At the end of the 2021 season Pitt bid farewell to several of its most important players to graduation — namely at the outside hitter position.

Kayla Lund and Chinaza Ndee highlight the group of departing hitters, along with Leketor Member-Meneh, who in just one season with the Panthers earned AVCA All-America honors and was instrumental in the team’s road to the Final Four.

But it didn’t take long for the Panthers to an-

Julianna Dalton is a Pitt volleyball transfer from Washington State, and the Panthers’ first acquisition of the 2022 offseason.

Image courtesy of Alex Mowrey, Pitt Athletics

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nounce they’d be receiving reinforcements.

The team announced Jan. 6 that sophomore outside hitter Julianna Dalton officially completed her transfer to Pitt from Washington State, marking the first acquisition of the 2022 offseason.

In just one season with the Cougars, Dalton made a strong impression in the Pac-12, notching 151 kills in 16 games, including 14 against Western Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament.

Her performances ultimately earned her Pac-12 All-Freshman Team honors.

Hailing from Parker, Colorado, Dalton is one of seven kids in her family, all of whom went onto play college sports. Her three older sisters all played NCAA volleyball.

Dalton’s high school coach Amanda West said in her tenure at Chaparral High School, she coached both Julianna and her younger sister Katie to a state championship in 2019. As a public school that couldn’t recruit, West said she would often throw Dalton into other positions when the team was low on personnel to show off her versatility and athleticism.

“In high school obviously, we’re not recruiting so we just have whoever walks into our gym,” West said. “There were times that I had to throw her in the middle, so she was a middle for us, she was a right side for us, she was an outside for us, she just did whatever we needed her to do and did an amazing job … She wasn’t specialized in any position, she was just a true athlete.”

In her senior year at Chaparral, Dalton notched several prestigious accolades, including being named the Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year and an ACVA Second Team All-American.

Apart from totaling 313 kills in her senior season, Dalton also racked up 90 total blocks — a high number for an outside hitter. At 6-foot-5, Dalton became the tallest player on the roster by three inches, making her look more like a middle blocker than an outside hitter.

Despite her height and experience at middle blocker in high school, head coach Dan Fisher intends to use her as an outside hitter in his lineup.

“She would play on the left and probably on the right,” Fisher said. “It’s how we recruited her, and that’s what we expect from her.”

While the position change isn’t in Fisher’s plans for Dalton, she said she is ready to play wherever the team needs her to, even if it’s not at outside hitter. West believes that Dalton can play anywhere she wants to, and that it was one of the reasons she was so attractive to schools in the recruiting process.

While Fisher said he began recruiting Dalton to Pitt during her time at Chaparral, it was Washington State that originally won her over three years ago. When Pitt faced off against the Cougars last season, Dalton’s absence from the lineup made the Panther coaching staff renew its recruiting efforts a few months ago.

“We played Washington State at the start of

the year and going into that game we had expected to see Julianna,” Fisher said. “We found out just a week prior that she wouldn’t be suiting up so we were kind of trying to figure out what was going on with her, is she going to be playing?

Then, shortly thereafter, she’s on the portal and we started recruiting.”

In just two weeks with the Panthers, Fisher has already noticed Dalton’s strengths, both tangible and intangible. He said her physical traits and abilities on the court stood out, but was surprised at how open she’s been to learn.

“She’s a tall player who moves well and can play six rotations,” Fisher said. “We knew she was competitive — we knew she was a hard worker.

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1 br $1195+g/e, 2br $1395+g/e. apt­s@ lookuppags.com or 412‑922‑2141 Pics: tinyurl.com/1br­ morewoodgarage tinyurl.com/2brmore­ wood

Affordable, expert, lo­cal: Tarot read‑ ings by email $5 and up total cost TaoCraftTarot.­com

Shadyside 2/3/4 bedroom apart­ments for rent.

Avail­able for rent 2022‑2023 school year. Minutes from Pitt campus. For more in­formation or to sched­ule a showing, please call Mike at 412‑849‑8694.

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