Girls’ Basketball Adapts to Challenges of New Team

SIDNEY AUNG
Staff Writer
The varsity girls’ basketball team is in high hopes of repeating their dominant 10-0 Almont League record from last year. However, there are many aspects that are different from last year’s varsity squad. With only two returning players on varsity, the team has a lot of prospective players and fresh talent.
There is also an enormous change from last year’s team: their coach. Chris Roberts, former basketball coach at Wilson High School will replace Therese Berner as head coach. Chris Roberts is fairly new to the system at AHS, but the team is giving him a warm welcome nonetheless.
The Lady Moors are currently playing against other teams in their preseason, and are working hard towards preparing for the League season. The team is confident in their abilities but hope to make several improvements. Due to the lack of returning players and the arrival of a new coach with a different system, the team is striving to develop their communication amongst each other in order to build up teamwork. Their main focus this year is defense, and they are concerned about preventing other teams from scoring too many easy points. Last year, the players were strong defensively, and they are hoping to carry over the defensive mindset that was instilled in last year’s squad.
“Offense wins games, but defense wins championships,” said varsity point guard Lauren Wong.