Kiyose Higashi Academy Boy's Volleyball Team

**Kiyose Higashi Academy Boy's Volleyball Team** (Japanese: **清瀬東 学院 男のバレーボール分隊**, **Kiyose Higashi Gakuen Danshi no Bareboru Chimu**) is the boy's volleyball team of **Kiyose Higashi Academy** (Japanese: **清瀬東 学院**, **Kiyose Higashi Gakuen**) from the Tokyo Metropolis Prefecture, and is regarded as one of the top favorite teams to win in almost any competition.

## Uniform

 The boy's volleyball club's uniform consists of a dark red tracksuit with black accents and the team t-shirts are either a black shirt or a white sweater depending on the season, whilst the team jersey mostly consists of the same dark red color as their tracksuit with similarly designed black accents on them. The numbers and words are all colored in white, so as

## Volleyball Team

Prior to the current generation, the Kiyose Higashi Academy Boy's Volleyball Club were regarded as one of the weakest in the tournaments. With merely casual players being in matches for fun and no one taking the game seriously; it was no doubt that they were considered failures as volleyball players. It didn't help that the school was more focused on Football and Basketball instead of any other sports, including ones like Baseball or Rugby. However, since the joining of what is called the **Golden Generation** (Japanese: **黄金世代**, *Kogane Sedai*), the team has since propelled themselves to higher games and have won the Interhigh competitions and seasonal competitions straight. The Golden Generation of Kiyose Higashi is also the only team that created their own division one league team.

Since the Golden Generation joined, the Boy's Volleyball Team is considered a "powerhouse" even among the Top 10 in Japan and were considered talented individuals. However, contrary to everyone's expectations, these so-called "Golden Generation", are merely "Volleyball Junkies", as put by their manager and coach. They played volleyball since they were younger and has extremely strong grasp of the fundamentals and rules of Volleyball. Enough to say that they were veterans even in Middle School. Since maturing and coming up with their own styles in High School, they have become undefeated in a number of competitions and has been one of the three representatives of the Tokyo Prefecture for all three years they stayed in High School.

Team-Wise, their play style merely did not have infallible scorers that utilized height, power and a variety of attacks, they were also intelligent and strategically adaptive, particularly with their defensive strategies. Displaying the ability to counter exceedingly hard offensive plays, and displayed the ability to utilize their players to the fullest potential. They were extremely coordinated in their offense, and were masters of the fundamentals. With such a high-spec team, no doubt the Golden Generation of Kiyose Higashi Boy's Volleyball Team are considered to be an incredible team with exceptionally strong players, and are regarded as a National-level Team.

Kiyose Higashi's overall volleyball playing style focuses on three core components: contribution, fundamentals and mental fortitude. Kaori Shirofuku, the team's coach, believes that each player must not only have a good grasp of the fundamentals but also be able to distinguish themselves from the other each other. She does not like teams that are all similar to each other like clones or robots, and prefers that everyone of her players have their own identity, philosophy and playing style, something that they themselves associate with and can use to their maximum potential. Of their six starting players, two are physically gifted, two are intelligent, and two are naturally athletic, while one merely possesses the mental fortitude and the heart to be a player.

## Practice Matches

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Shinkyoku High School (2:0 / 25:12, 25:6)
* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Ubugawa High School (2:0 / 25:23, 25:12)
* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Mujinazaki High School (2:1 / 25:12, 23:25, 33;31)
* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Sarukawa High School (2:0 / 25:10, 25:6)
* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Itachiyama Academy (2:1 / 25:23, 23:25, 43:41)

## Interhigh-Preliminaries

### **First Round**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Nekoma High School (2:0 / 25:12, 25:23)

### **Second Round**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Sarukawa High School (2:0 / 25:10, 25:6)

### **Third Round**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Shinkyoku High School (2:1 / 25:12, 23:25 / 16:14)

### **Quarter Finals**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Ubugawa High School (2:0 / 25:23, 25:12)

### **Semi Finals**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Fukurodani Academy (2:1 / 25:17, 20:25, 15:13)

### **Finals**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Itachiyama Academy (2:1 / 25:23, 23:25, 43:41)

## Spring High National Tournament

### **Quarter Finals**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Mujinazaki High School (2:1 / 25:12, 23:25, 33;31)

### **Semi Finals**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Itachiyama Academy (2:1 / 25:23, 23:25, 43:41)

### **Finals**

* **Kiyose Higashi Academy** vs Karasuno High School (3:2 / 25:14, 20:25, 25:21, 21:25, 15:13)