Elkton Girls Basketball
Team Rundown:
No guards; no problem.
Or at least that is the hope for this
year’s Elkton basketball team.
After their two primary ball-han-
dlers graduated –including Maggie
Briggs who is now on the Pacific
University JV team – the Elks are
looking to find a new way forward
but their success, they believe, is not
dependent on it.
“I’ve got some girls that are decent
ball handlers, just not real true point
guards which in our offense doesn’t
really matter a whole lot,” said Rob
Parker who is in his 28th year of
coaching.
Parker is not worried because his
team utilizes a read-and-react offense
that is predicated on playing without
positions so the use of a traditional
ball handler is non-essential. Some
of his players were first introduced
to the system when Parker’s wife first
taught them the style of play in fifth
grade.
Regardless of what offense the
team runs, there is excitement on the
defensive end.
“Honestly, I think defense has al-
ways been our strong suit,” said sen-
ior Hannah Maxwell. “We’ve always
ran a full-court press so I’m excited
to see where that goes this year be-
cause we have some quick girls on
our team.”
The Elks will be dependent on
their stingy defense again if they
are going to replicate the success of
last year’s 22-7 team that lost in the
second round of the playoffs. While
they only lost two seniors from that
team, the team is returning just two
starters this season and have no jun-
iors on the roster.
Play with class
Win with class
Lose with class
Youth, community, conservation
& safety ... it’s what we do!
so that we can get as far as
Team Perspective percent
we’re able to.
I mean honestly, the first couple
with Hannah Maxwell practices
I’m just surprised with
Expectations for the season:
I think last year we had a really
high expectation to where we would
finish because the years before, even
our freshmen year, we made it to
state. Sophomore year we just missed
state and last year we were like, we’re
doing it, this is where we’re going,
we’re going to state. So I think we
were just really focused on going to
state last year.
Goals for the season:
I think for us, at least for me per-
sonally, we kind of just want to influ-
ence them to the best of our ability
to be positive and to put 100 percent
onto the court because we do have a
really young team. It’s really hard to
say where we’re going to go this year
but I just want everyone to give 110
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how far we’ve made it. How well
we’ve done in the first two practic-
es. I think, and I notice that, I think
everyone’s there and they want to do
their best and I think that’s really go-
ing to help us at the end of the sea-
son putting in the work now.
On their offense:
We don’t really have an offense. If
you ask Mr. Parker, his famous quote
will be, technically we don’t have an
offense, well we do but, we don’t
actually run any set plays. It’s like a
read and react offense and you just
go with what the game gives you.
And honestly it takes teams by sur-
prise and I think it’s been a great ad-
vantage all of these years.