Basketball Banquet

On Saturday February 12th, the Trinity tigers women’s basketball team had their end of season banquet. Although they hope their season is far from over, they celebrated how far they’ve come from the beginning of the season and paid tribute to the four years of hard work their seniors put into the program. The banquet was located at Scenic Loop Café in Boerne, Texas. There, the girls, coaches and parents enjoyed fajitas with chips and queso while reminiscing in shared memories. The team put together a video of memories throughout the season. When 15 college girls spend almost everyday together since October 20th there are bound to be some crazy things happen. The team put together a video of all their season highlights, as well as those funny moments. The underclassmen took on the challenge of paying tribute to the seniors by mocking them on film and doing and saying things the seniors did throughout the season. It was all in good fun and the seniors got their chance as well. They presented each underclassman with a gift while sharing a goofy story about them to the whole room. The banquet helped the team realize how lucky they are to be a part of such a great group and team. Senior captain Danielle Hubenak commented, “it was the perfect event to send us into our last four home games. It made us realize how great of a team we have and really helped our team chemistry.”

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Team Dynamics

Any coach, scout or broadcaster will say that team dynamics leads to team chemistry which inevitably leads to wins. With a team made up of predominately freshman from all over the country, it is no wonder why the Trinity Women’s Basketball team got off to a rough start. Along with a new freshman crew, the team had to endure the adversity of six people quitting throughout the season, two of which were starters from the previous year. Head coach Amie Bradley emphasized the talent of the freshman class. She has started as many as two freshmen in one game, and another three get significant playing time off the bench. This upset some upperclassmen and led two seniors and one sophomore to quit the team. With such a young team, it was difficult to overcome this instability and adversity, and their record reflects it. However, over winter break, being virtually the only people on campus, the team bonded to overcome the adversities they had seen earlier in the season. They did team building activities set up by the coaches such as a scavenger hunt at the San Antonio Zoo. This led them to a four game winning streak beating number one ranked team in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference west, Hendrix, and the number ten ranked team in the nation, Depaw. With these two wins, the Trinity Tigers boosted themselves to second place in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.

At The Zoo by Libby Kruse is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.