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reathing life into the previous season," explained

Women's Basketball program Coach Gold. When

was the main goal of Coach compared to the return rate

Mike Gold. Although in the men's program it is

previous teams had tried obvious that the Lady

hard, they had not attained Cougars were at a distinct

the unity necessary to disadvantage in the area of

achieve success on the court. team depth. "Not since Miss

Coach Gold wanted to Kris DeWitt and Kay Phillips

change that. played during their college

There was no camaraderie, years had a player been on

stability, or unity among the the squad all four years,"

team at the outset of the added Coach Gold. His first

season. With four coaches in step in building a team was

The belief that four years, it was difficult for to create a strong nucleus of

the players to establish a players.

quitting wasn't rapport with one another or Though a 6-15 overall

with a coach. "You could see record and a 5-3 District

the lack of spirit and record may not reflect
acceptable, was cohesiveness in the players. overwhelming success,

Janell Marple and Beverly Coach Gold believes the
our motivation. Boone were the only team was successful in

returning players from the developing unity, stability

and camaraderie. A closer

look at the records is more

revealing. Out of the fifteen

losses, two of them were 1-

point losses and one was a 3

point loss in double

overtime. Winning those

three would have made the

records 9-12 and 8-3. Some

of the non-district

competition were full

scholarship teams; Cardinal

Strich in Wisconsin was a

District III college. Against

such stiff competition the

Lady cougars played

admirably. Winning their

first game was a big

Seated are Terri Smith, Sharon Jackson, Sandi Neuman, Janell Marple, encouragement and helped

Kelly McCafferty, and Lori Taylor. Standing are Karen Ramirez, manager; them garner the best record

Coach Gold, Beverly Boone, Kelly Carmac, Audra Nelson, Laila Pappin,

Yvette Neuman, and Sharon Holbrook. in years. The Lady Cougars

were successes because they

never quit.