Winter Sports Preview

Winter Sports Preview

A look into the winter sports season

Alex Lechuga| staff writer

Girl’s Basketball

The girl’s basketball season is underway and they are ready to bounce back with a fresh, new coaching staff. Senior guard, Jazmin Graham, sees both the positive and negative sides of having a brand new staff. “A good thing is that there’s a different perspective from coaches that have experience, but you also lose the past connections from the previous staff.”

The new coaching staff has already helped freshman Addison Hassett feel prepared for this season. “I’m very nervous, but the coaches aren’t cutting freshmen which eases my nerves,” said Hassett.

Junior Corrie Hassett, is anxious but ready to see what the Lady Braves will face.“I am a little nervous of how things are going to play out this year, but I am very excited,” said Hassett. The Lady Braves are determined and enthusiastic, even through adversity, to make this season a slam dunk.

Boy’s Swim

With this upcoming boy’s swim season, many of the athletes are ready to dive into the competition. Senior Jase Hadley, is enthusiastic about the season. “I feel ready to give my best for my senior year and I feel ready to put forth the best work I can,” said Hadley.

Other swimmers, including sophomore Isaac Bates, have been preparing for the season. “I’ve had about a month and a half to two months of preseason,” Bates said. “It’s been three or four other swimmers that meet up with me at the YMCA to swim.”

Boy’s swim coach, Bill Downing, is apprehensive about how COVID will affect their season. “It’s going to be a logistics thing,” Downing explained. “So everything we’ve traditionally done in the past, we’ll have to think of in a different way.” The boy’s swim team is ready to adapt to anything that comes their way during this unique season.

Spirit

Step by step, and in rhythm, the spirit team is there day in and day out for all of our sports teams. Sophomore Hannah Duskie explains how she’s feeling about this winter cheer season. “It’s definitely gonna be a lot different,” Duskie said, “and we’re gonna have to make adjustments to the team.”

Jaycee Millison, also a sophomore on the cheer team, is looking forward to this season but is also worried about how it will go. “With COVID, we can’t really do what we do best, which is stunting.” Millison explains, “There’s also not much of a crowd to cheer for which is a huge bummer.”

Even through those challenges, the spirit team will be able to dance and cheer on our winter sports athletes.

Boy’s Basketball

The boy’s basketball team plans to dribble through the ins and outs of a season affected by COVID. Despite the challenges that the virus has created, Junior Mayson Sprague still has high hopes for the season. “My expectations are for everybody to stay focused and have a great mindset about the season, even with everything going on right now,” said Sprague.

Senior Derrick Kolle is going into the season with confidence. “We’ve got a lot of talented players this year and I’m excited to see what all the new players bring to the table.”

Head coach Dan Streit is prepared to lead the boy’s basketball team to a successful season. “I feel good about this upcoming season.” Streit said, “We have three returning letterman starters… We are athletic, young, but have more varsity experience than last year.” The Bonner Braves are ready to shoot this season’s lights out.

Top Events to see:

Girl’s/Boy’s Basketball

12/17- De Soto @ BSHS 1/18- Tonganoxie @ THS 1/26- Turner @ BSHS 2/16- Piper @ BSHS

Boy’s Swim

1/11- Turner @ Turner 1/14- Lawrence @ LIAC 1/28- Championship @ Turner 2/4- Topeka @ BSHS