The girls basketball team finished the season 18-4 and set three school records this season. They were the first girls basketball team in school history to have 18 wins, win the Kaw Valley League championship and win the mid-season tournament, the Lady Cat Classic in El Dorado.

“After we started out 0-3, stringing 18 wins together says a lot about them,” head coach John McFall said. “They played the defending state champions up to the wire so that speaks a lot also.”

McFall knows he’ll miss the two seniors Olivia Frey and Kati Strickland.

“The two seniors are outstanding young ladies,” McFall said. “Frey and Strickland came in everyday and gave us their best and that’s what I asked them to do.”

Frey didn’t expect the team to do so well after a rough start.

“When we started 0-3 I thought it was going to be a rough season but we kept pushing in practice and our hard work paid off.

Frey is proud of how well the team did as a whole this season.

“I think it’s exciting. We set so many records and we had a really good fun season as a team,” Frey said.

Even though the team didn’t make it to state after losing 26-34 to St. Thomas Aquinas High School, McFall knows what’s important.

“I firmly believe winning league championship is very important, everyone is hung up on the state tournament,” McFall said. “To be league champions it’s who was good over the course of a season.”

Frey is proud of her team and can pinpoint one favorite thing about the season.

“The El Dorado tournament was my favorite part of this season, it was a good bonding experience and we set a record winning the tournament,” Frey said.

McFall believes the team next year will have a good base to go off of.

“Obviously we have a good nucleus coming back next year, five starters were juniors,” McFall said.

Frey is also hopeful for the team next year.

“I think next year’s team will go really far, I hope they make it to state,” Frey said. “They deserve to go to state.”

McFall is hopeful next season will be just as successful.

“Hopefully, we’ve established a base and have things to build on,” McFall said. “We just need to move in a positive direction.”