SportS Ava Aldarelli a new sensation in CVC basketball

Rich Fisher

Ava Aldarelli is a freshman with the wisdom of an upperclassman. Or maybe even a coach.

Asked if there is any facet of her basketball game she is looking to work on in the off-season, the Robbinsville High 9th-grader said, “I try to just improve all around. If I focus on one thing too much, it could just become the only part of my game.”

So true. And it appears she has been working on that all-around game already in her young life.

“When we played Lawrence she hit a bunch of threes,” first-year Ravens coach Justin Schmid said. “Against Nottingham it was a bunch of steals. With New Egypt she was coming off screens and hitting jump shots. Once we get her into the weight room she can really start to drive to the basket.”

Apparently, that’s the only flaw in an otherwise well-built design.

“She’ll drive into the middle of the paint and it’s a disaster there,” Schmid said. “You’ve got 17- and 18-year-olds in there. We tell her ‘You gotta pull up here, you’re not ready to go up and bang in