Varsity Girls Basketball Season starts!

The lady eagles have officially started basketball practice. With our wonderful returning coaches: Brad Richards, Richard Clark, Dan Hamilton and Bill Mann; we are ready to have another great season! This year we have a tough line up on our schedule including the Muskegon Big Reds, Orchard View, and Oakridge. By playing schools that are a lot bigger than us, we are hoping they will help prepare us for the road to the Breslin. (Michigan State's basketball stadium.)

This years team includes: Taylor Richards (Senior), Britney Zehr (Junior), Hannah Roberts(Junior), Erica Mitchell (Junior), Montana Burgtorf (Junior), Allyson Richards (Soph.), Jordyn Hamilton (Soph.), Kyleah Sutherland (Soph.), and Maddie Heiss(Freshman). These girls are ready to put in the hard work, time, sweat, and multiple bruises that come along with basketball to make it farther than last year.

The varsity girls first official game is on Thursday, December 4th at 7 against Muskegon Heights. We hope you can come out and support the team! This will be the first of many tough line ups the girls will face this year. But the girls aren't ready to go down without a fight that's for sure. They've been working hard in practice and watching video tape of the scrimmages that they have already played this year.

Tape is a key thing for the girls; to watch ourselves play and make mistakes and learn what and how we can improve. We also have had parents and former varsity girl champions come out and scrimmage us. Which has helped us out a lot by giving us game like situations and some tough competition while doing it. This group of girls is a great team to be on. On and off the court. We're not only just a team when it's time to lace up our shoes, but in the halls, during class, and in each others lives outside of school. We're more than just teammates during basketball season... we're teammates for life.

Montana Burgtorf, Junior