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ALL-AREA GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM
PLAYER OF THE YEAR rosemarie julien
All-Area First Team
Kasey Cox
LaSonja Edwards
Megan Gorman
Alexis Jean
Nene Johnson
Yasmine Queen
Tayler Smith
Hunter Sullivan
Trudy Walker
Kayla Woulard
Coach of the Year
ROGER DORIO
Treasure Coast, fourth year This year: Guided team to the Class 8A state championship game after becoming the first team in school history in any sport to reach the Florida High School Athletic Association’s Final Four. The Titans were the state runnersup with a 21-7 record, their second consecutive 20-win season despite replacing most of the lineup. Dorio only had two returning starters this year to go with three transfers that all ended up in the starting lineup. He shaped them into a team by moving three into new positions. Coach’s quote: “I had a team back in Illinois, when I first started coaching … we won the district for the first time and then played in the Little Ten tournament, which was a big deal. Remember in ‘Hoosiers’ when it gets to the point where everyone is following the bus. That’s how it was when we got to the championship game of the Little Ten. They hadn’t won it in 50 years. Well, we didn’t win it, but we got to the finals and accomplished things no one had done. We did that this year. In Rose’s (Rosemarie Julien) four years, we went from having one season above .500 to winning 16, 16, 21 and 21 games and it was because we had good kids that brought out the anchor in Rose. That’s satisfying.”
KASEY COX
Jensen Beach junior point guard Statistics: 16 points, 5.0 rebounds per game
LASONJA EDWARDS
Fort Pierce Central senior forward Statistics: 18.5 points, 8.4 rebounds, 4.0 assists per game
Honorable Mention
MEGAN GORMAN
Vero Beach sophomore forward/post Statistics: 11 points, 12 rebounds, 2.0 steals per game
MOLLY BARTELS/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS
Treasure Coast High School’s Rosemarie Julien is the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers 2014 All-Area Girls Basketball Player of the Year. To see more photos, go to TCPalm.com.
Julien rises to challenge
ALEXIS JEAN
Treasure Coast junior post Statistics: 14.5 points, 14.4 rebounds per game
NENE JOHNSON
Martin County senior guard Statistics: 12.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.7 assists per game
YASMINE QUEEN
Treasure Coast junior point guard Statistics: 8.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, 5.7 assists per game
TAYLER SMITH
Sebastian River junior forward/center Statistics: 14.4 points, 11.5 rebounds, 2.3 blocks, 3.0 steals, 1.4 assists per game
HUNTER SULLIVAN
John Carroll senior point guard Statistics: 15.7 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.5 steals per game
TRUDY WALKER
Fort Pierce Westwood junior power forward Statistics: 20 points, 11 rebounds per game
KAYLA WOULARD
Vero Beach senior guard Statistics: 15 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.0 steals per game
Despite change in position, Rosemarie Julien remains heart and soul of Treasure Coast’s basketball team By Aimee Ford Foster Special to Treasure Coast Newspapers
Until this season, whenever Treasure Coast High School senior Rosemarie Julien was handed the ball, her mission was simple. Go to the hoop. Go hard, go often. Just go. But this season, Julien was asked to step back from that role, asked to move her game from the post to the perimeter, asked to distribute the ball instead of flying to the rim. She did it without complaint and to great effect. Although her scoring and rebounding numbers decreased, Julien remained the heart and soul of the best girls basketball team on the Treasure Coast. She played one of her best games of the year when Treasure Coast beat No. 2 ranked Colonial to advance to the regional finals. At the Class 8A state championships, where the team finished as the runner-up, Julien was the best Titan on the floor. Julien is the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers 2014 All-Area Girls Basketball Player of the Year. “It was a great experience, I can say that,” Julien said of the season. “I was just going through every day, going to school, going to basketball then going home. Everything was a routine, and I was enjoying it every day. We went to the championship game. Now I’m focusing on my grades, but I do think about how much better I got this year and how
Player of the Year
ROSEMARIE JULIEN
Treasure Coast senior guard/wing Statistics: 11 points, 8.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists per game Coach Roger Dorio: “The biggest thing was that she adjusted to her new role. We had five post players. Where were we going to play them? Rose started (the season) at the point … but finished at the two guard. I was really impressed with the sacrifice she made of her own personal goals. She sacrificed for the team. As a coach, you can’t have anybody better than that.”
quick it went. “Now, I feel like I’m a basketball player. I was before, but now my eyes are really open. I see how many college coaches are looking at me. When I went to the colleges and showed them what I could do, I’m a true basketball player and that’s all I’ve been working on. It’s because of (coach Roger) Dorio and the other coaches. They’ve built me up.” Julien averaged 11 points a game, down from more than 20 the past two years, while splitting time at the point and as the two-guard. She averaged 8.6 rebounds per game, crashing the board from wherever she was on the floor. She also averaged a career-high 4.3 assists per game. “She got some assists last year, but
most of the time when she got the ball, she was going to the hoop and we wanted her to,” Dorio said. “That was what she had to do for the good of the team. But she’s so much better now. She does all the things that, when you’re a coach, you emphasize. “We never, ever want the kids to make a one-handed pass. Do they? Sure. But they hear about it from me. But the one time we do let them is when they step across and throw a hook pass to the post. Rose is great at that now. I could take clips of her doing that to show it to kids for the rest of my life. She can do it right handed and left handed. It’s a skill you just love. She’s been able to do it for a couple years, but she never had to do it in a game before this year.” Julien, who finished her career with 1,506 points and 1,063 rebounds, said she worked on the perimeter “a little” during AAU play last summer. She knows that at 5-foot-10 she will be a guard or wing in college. By the time the high school season began, Julien knew she would be stepping in at the point guard. Julien was the main ballhandler through the early part of the season and settled as the two-guard before winter break. “It wasn’t so hard because I like attacking the basket,” she said. “The only difference was the dribbling. But I knew that I had to carry the ball from one end to the other end of the court because college coaches look out for things like that. “It’s crazy, how much I grew.”
JAEDEN BROWN John Carroll freshman forward RENIAYA BURR Fort Pierce Westwood freshman point guard VICTORIA CRAWFORD Morningside freshman guard/ forward SHANA DEWITT Port St. Lucie senior guard ASIA DINGLE Martin County senior forward TIANNEA FRYSON South Fork sophomore guard TIARA KING Lincoln Park Academy sophomore center/forward CARLEY MCCOIN Vero Beach junior strong forward JORDAN MCHARDY Martin County senior guard RILEY MILLER Master’s Academy freshman point guard VALERIE MUNLEY Port St. Lucie senior center/forward CHEYENNE NUNEZ Okeechobee sophomore guard JANELLE PIERRE-LOUIS Fort Pierce Central sophomore guard SHAKEMA POLK Port St. Lucie junior forward JERMECIA ROBINSON Fort Pierce Westwood senior center ALEXYS ROMANO Treasure Coast senior post EVELYN SAGNER Treasure Coast junior wing CAITLYN SMITH Sebastian River sophomore guard KEKE SMITH Martin County freshman guard/forward BETHANY STUART Okeechobee senior center KATIE TAYLOR Sebastian River junior guard TANERIA WILSON Lincoln Park Academy sophomore guard
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