Hello all!
We have made a great start in the new year with 2 wins over Northside (34-25) and Fraser Lake (45-18).   In a true measure of team play, everyone scored in the FLESS game - awesome!
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A word about effort and attitude now....
Over the next month, we have a lot of games coming up.  It is important that everyone attend all practices from here on out.  If you are missing practices, you are missing out on basketball skill development and concepts!  The result is that your absences may prevent you from being a positive contributor to the team! 

We have all had a number of reasons for absences from practice and game play.  Every girl on our team has missed at least one while some girls have missed over half the practices!  How can that be a good thing for the team?  It is true that absences have in general been for good cause and most are excused absences, but please be aware that in upcoming tournaments, I will be playing those girls who are attending practice regularly. They are going to be the ones familiar with our offensive and defensive strategies.  We have been working on zone defence, a zone offence has been introduced, we are trying to work on a press and a press break, and so on!  I will not ask girls with excused absences to quit the team but they may have reduced playing time as a result of their missed practice times.

We have a great season before us!  Make a commitment to be there, be part of things, to practice hard and make a serious effort on behalf of yourself and your team!