Waukon girls basketball team will return an abundance of young experience in group of six letterwinners for 2016-2017 campaign
2016 Waukon girls basketball freshmen through seniors... Left to right - Front row: Ally Goltz, Molly Brodahl, Aubree Cota, Kaylee Gibbs, Carrissa Bockman, Alison Sherman, Berklee Hanson. Second row: Leah Bulman, Grace Howe, Cayla Nolting, Brittney Troester, Ellec Armstead, Morgan Hennessy, Rebecca Thorstenson, Hailey Regan. Back row: Carley Sweeney, Faith Palmer, Brigid Berns, Sydney Ross, McKenzie Cooper, Brooke Wasson, Lauren Griffith, Regan Wasson, Maddie Ahlstrom.
The 2016-2017 Waukon girls basketball season will see a collection of six varsity letterwinners return from a team last winter that produced a 9-12 season record. That letterwinning experience includes just one upperclassman, a fact that third-year Waukon girls basketball head coach Andy Sires sees as bittersweet.
“We are a very young team, which can be a positive because I have most of my core varsity team for four years,” Coach Sires said. “That is not the usual norm when it comes to varsity basketball. Most teams only have one or two underclassmen even dressing varsity.”
The Indians will get their season underway this Friday, November 18 when they travel to Lansing to take on fellow Allamakee County squad Kee for an early-season, non-conference match-up. The basketball Tribe will then wait until December 2 to open its NEIC season at New Hampton.
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