Kee 2018-2019 girls basketball team working to carry on recent trend of success
2018-2019 Kee girls basketball team ... Left to right - Front row: Haley Meyer, Kristina Dibert, Katie Brennan, Meredith Gruber, Ashlyn Seitz, Reagan Mudderman. Back row: Laura Colsch, Jada Mitchell, Makayla Walleser, Heather Mooney, Makayla Peters, Jaiden Berns, Maggy Weymiller. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook.
The Kee girls basketball program comes off its most successful season in school history to further add to its most successful era in program history. A best-ever 22-2 season record last winter capped off an overall 82-14 record over the past four seasons for the Lady Hawk hoops program, with key pieces to both of those historical puzzles now having graduated.
Despite that graduation loss of five seniors from last winter’s squad, four of whom graced the Hawks starting line-up for multiple seasons and, thus, took a great deal of statistical and other leadership with them, the work ethic and intangible pieces of that success are seeds planted for others to harvest from in future seasons. A total of eight young ladies from last season’s roster of 14 players return this season ready to work on maintaining the recent trend of Kee girls basketball success as best they can.
Even though graduation took away an abundance of experience and leadership, along with a vast majority of last season’s starting line-up, one pillar of that Hawk starting foundation returns in senior multi-year starter Makayla Walleser, who returns with plenty of her own leadership results from last season’s historic result. Walleser led the Kee girls with 26 three-point field goals, 99 assists and 77 steals, and she finished second on last season’s team in scoring and fourth in rebounding, averaging 10.3 points and 2.5 boards per contest.
The Lady Hawks were scheduled to get their 2018-2019 season underway Tuesday, November 20 by hosting intra-county foe Waukon, who begins the season rated eighth in Class 3A. Kee will then begin its Upper Iowa Conference schedule Tuesday, November 27 at South Winneshiek before playing at Postville November 30.
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