Last year, the LHS girls basketball team had an outstanding season, with a record of 16 wins to 6 losses, an impressive 73% win rate. The team finished 3rd in the highly competitive 4A Jeffco league and made it to playoffs, but unfortunately got eliminated after a 40-34 loss to Durango High School. However, the team this year looks promising, with three seniors, four juniors, four sophomores, and one freshman.
This year, the teams’ main goal is to make it to playoffs again.
“I’m looking forward to getting past the second round of playoffs,” said senior and team captain Dalana Jakovljevic. In the team’s first game against Windsor, she was selected as the player of the game.
Jakovljevic touches on the culture of the girls’ basketball program,
“Everybody is very supportive and very welcoming no matter what level you’re at or how you’re playing. We push each other to get better.”
Junior Penny Urquhart, one of girls’ basketball’s top performers last season, shares what the team might focus on working on this year. She explains how the team wants to start finishing strong and not giving their opponents a chance to make a comeback at the end of games, something that they struggled with last season.
“Mostly our ability to finish games, because sometimes we go up on teams and they come back into it,” said Urquhart.
Junior Chandler Gleim gives her predictions for this season,
“I think we’re gonna have a really good season. I think we have a really talented team this year, I think it will be good.”
Come out and support girls’ basketball as they host a tournament this Wednesday, the 7th of December at 5:30!
