When the season starts Saturday, Crown Point’s Payton Cholewa won’t have to hold back any longer.

In the meantime, the 5-foot-8 senior outside hitter has been trying — and sometimes failing — to keep herself in check.

“I got yelled at during practice yesterday,” Cholewa said with a laugh. “The first ball I went after, I dove and hit my knee. On another ball, I almost ran into the wall.

“I want to push myself to be a better player, so it’s hard to not try to go all out.”

That’s the kind of effort that helped Cholewa earn a spot last season on the Bulldogs (28-7, 14-0), who won the Duneland Athletic Conference title and a Class 4A regional title . She was slowed by injuries, which limited her to 44 kills, but 27 came in October as she became a more frequent starter.

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