Kee girls basketball team returns historic veteran core for 2016-2017
2016 Kee girls basketball returning letterwinners... Left to right - Front row: Claudia Mathis, Jordyn Burroughs, Makayla Walleser, Nicki Wood. Back row: Ashley Schwartzhoff, Casey Welsh, Maddie Gruber, Kendra Cooper, Courtney Cooper, Chloe Severson. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook.
The 2015-2016 Kee girls basketball season was one for the history books and the record books, as the Lady Hawks played their way to a best-ever 22-3 season record, the program’s first-ever State Tournament qualification and the rewriting of a majority of the program’s individual and team records. Fortunately, for the Kee basketball girls the 2016-2017 season brings back a good number of authors of those historical chapters in the 10 returning letterwinners from last winter.
“With only two seniors graduating from last year’s squad, we have a good amount of experience coming back,” Kee girls basketball head coach Dan Love said. “We are going to lean on that experience early while looking to work in the rest of the hard working crew. The returning letterwinners are going to need to show their poise under pressure and their ability to elevate the level of play of those around them.”
“I’m looking forward to all the possibilities this year brings, with all the challenges that will arise,” Coach Love summarized. “Will we rely on what we accomplished last year? Or will we come out each and every night fighting like we have something to prove? I’m excited to find out, and for the possibilities that follow.”
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