<p>Whiteland Community High School volleyball coach Kristin Estridge has experienced the IHSAA-imposed summer moratorium week both as a player and as a coach.</p>
<p>Estridge, a 2007 Mooresville High School graduate who played volleyball, basketball and softball for the Pioneers, was between her sophomore and junior school years when the moratorium made its debut.</p>
<p>About to begin her third season aws the Warriors’ coach, Estridge feels moratorium week is an important hiatus for those in her program.</p>
<p>“We look forward to it,” she said. “We do a lot of work prior to the moratorium, and it kind of cuts our summer in half. After we get back is when we really start to increase our intensity.”</p>
<p>Summer moratoriums are a seven-day period in which there can be no contact between athletes and coaches. Also, no activities can be planned, including conditioning.</p>
<p>The first moratorium in Indiana was in 2005.</p>
<p>This summer’s begins Monday, July 4, and runs through Sunday, July 10.</p>
<p>In the case of Whiteland volleyball, the seven-day breather serves as a divider of what’s been done and the work which still remains for players and coaches.</p>
<p>Whiteland’s first day of school is July 27. Estridge’s first volleyball practice takes place Aug. 1.</p>
<p>To this point the focus for three hours three days per week — Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon — has been about splitting conditioning work with strength training.</p>
<p>After moratorium, Estridge and her staff begin will concentrate more on specific offenses, defenses and player rotations.</p>
<p>“Incoming freshmen are learning how we do things and what our expectations are,” Estridge said.</p>
<p>Whiteland’s first regular-season match is Aug. 10, when the Warriors host Triton Central.</p>
<p>“Moratorium week gives us family time,” Estridge said. “My husband (Josh) is a coach, as well, at Plainfield, so we don’t see much of each other in the summer.”</p>