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North Douglas Girls Basketball
Team Rundown:
Since the North Douglas girls bas-
ketball team moved down to the 1A
classification at the start of the 2013
school year, the lowest the Warri-
ors have been ranked at the end of
the regular season is third. But after
losing four seniors from last year’s
team, including the 6’2 post presence
of Jhana Lane, the Warriors are fac-
ing their biggest challenge to stay at
the top.
“That’s the neat thing about high
school athletics in the four-year plan
that it cycles. When we lose kids
and miss the heck out of them they
meant a lot to us, it’s an opportunity
for that next group,” said head coach
Jeff Davis.
This is not the first time this year
that the Warriors are adjusting to
losing players and experiencing low-
er expectations. The North Douglas
volleyball team – that features eight
girls from the basketball team – was
in a the boat this past season. The
volleyball team ended up with the
top seed in the state and took fourth
place at the state tournament.
“Oh I think the fact that, and it
was true in volleyball, too that peo-
ple have written us off because we
lost some talent.,” said Davis.
For this year’s basketball team, not
only will there be a personnel change
but how the Warriors execute is go-
ing to be different as well. Now that
the tallest player on the team is 5’9
(Abby Whipple and Ashley Powers)
the Warriors will be relying on their
speed when they take the court.
“We’re not 6’2,” said Davis. “We’re
5’5 and quick so there’s some obvi-
ous changes there.”
Team Perspective
with Abby and Amy:
On how practices are going so far:
Amy Dooley: We’ve been putting in
a lot of hard work and learning a lot
more about some new stuff for the
program. And we’re using it well.
Abby Whipple: We’ve been really
disciplined with our orders and fol-
lowing through.
On how to get back to where they were last
season:
Abby Whipple: I think our level is
going to get to be the same eventu-
ally but it’s just going to be a very
different game. We’re going to be
a lot faster and push the ball more
than we did last year.
Amy Dooley: This year it’s a longer
journey to get to that experience lev-
el and that level of play that you can
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play up with all those bigger teams
that are better and we have a longer
journey and it doesn’t make it any
less easy to get to.
What they are excited for this season:
Abby Whipple: I think I’m more
excited for our underclassmen like
the sophomores this year because
they’re going to get a lot more play-
ing time and a lot more experience
this year.
Amy Dooley: I’m excited for our
defense. I think we’re really going
to ramp it up and use some of the
speed we have this year to push and
go hard.
On if they prefer volleyball or basketball
more:
Abby Whipple: I’m more of a bas-
ketball girl.
Amy Dooley: I like air hockey, so…