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Senior Girls Basketball

23 February 2013
Brooke L, Allard ‘13
As the Captain of the Senior Girls Basketball team I had the awesome opportunity to lead a wonderful group of individuals and work with our coach, Mr. Warner, to make the past season the most successful and enjoyable experience it could be. We had many different levels of basketball skills on our team, but when it came to game time we all worked as a team. Well, most of the time that is.

We put a lot of hours into improving our skills and working on our offence and defense, practicing every day of the week except Sunday. All this hard work paid off as we all started to see ourselves improving and really understanding the game.

In our league games we ended up 2-2, losing to our rivals Shawnigan both times we played them and beating Gulf Islands twice. Though we would have loved to beat Shawnigan, it just wasn’t within our reach this season.

We also played in three tournaments. We went to Nanaimo to the Wellington tournament where we ended up getting second place losing in the final to the home team.  Tournament Allstars were Brooke L and Tajzha D. Our next tournament was the Victoria Police Tournament in Victoria. Up against some of the top ranked AA and AAA teams on the island, we didn’t play our best. The last tournament we played in was at Mark Isfeld where we had a lot of fun and played pretty well, finishing 6th. Players of the games were Brooke L, Tajzha D, Valeria F and Joanna L.

Over the past month, we had been working towards one major tournament, which was South Islands. Since we were the host this year it gave us a bit of a lead against the competition. Our first game was a tough loss against Parklands. We then won against Ed Milne with Brooke L scoring 36 points and Tajzha D scoring 23. This put us in a position to play Shawnigan one last time and won Booke’s bet with Mr. Patel. As a result, the school enjoyed seeing Mr. Patel wear bright green neon pants to Thursday’s assembly.  

If we won we moved on to the third place game and advanced to Islands, but if we lost we would be done for the season. We fought really hard and played the best game of the year against Shawnigan, but we just came up short of the win, losing by eleven points. The top scorers of that game was Brooke L with 24 points and Joanna L with 7 points.

Brooke L also made the Allstar team for the North Island this year playing on a team of twelve other girls from the North Island. They will be facing the South Island All-Star’s on April 6th. Tajzha D also earned her Intermediate Colors, Rayna A her Service Pin and Brooke Lister both her Senior Colours and the Coach’s Award.

Overall, we had a really good season filled with laughs and improvement. A special thank you to all the girls, Mikayla DJ, Rayna A, Tajzha D, Carolyn B, Joanna L and Jessica L, for making this season possible. Also, thank you to Ailish T, Mariel F, Valeria F, McKenna H, Avi S and Cevina G who helped us out. The biggest thanks, of course, goes out to our coach, Mr. Warner, who put a lot of time and effort into helping us not only improve our basketball skills but also encouraging us to be the best team we could be.

Good luck to all the returning girls next season!  Make us proud!  Go Brentwood!

Brooke L, Allard ‘13
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