Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Boys JV Basketball Wrap Up



by Sam Meyjes
The Junior Varsity Boys Basketball team’s season has come to an end. And the end of the season brings mixed feelings about how the season turned out. The team went 1-17, a record which isn’t one much to be proud of. But there are optimists on the team. Sophomore JV star Colin Sullivan was one who had bright outlook for the future of the team.
“I am very confident that the team will continue to improve and have great success in years to come.”
The team is looking forward to that, especially because of the necessity to find players to get ready for the varsity level.
“Making States is a goal of ours with rising varsity players, because that’s something that hasn’t been done in years here at DHS,” said sophomore George Phillips, a varsity Basketball player, looking at the players coming out of the JV program.
The goal of the Junior Varsity program is to develop players into top tier competitors in the next level. Right now, the team is in the improvement stage of building a competitive team.  In the 2010-2011 season, the JV team lost every game they played. This year, the team was able to score one win. Slow and steady improvement is the key. As the quality of players continues to improve through the youth program, the quality of both the JV and Varsity teams will improve. The Varsity team is going through the same sort of improvement. Through the past three seasons, the Varsity team has consecutively added an extra win and one less loss to its records, this season scoring three wins total. It is expected that the JV team will be able to steadily improve its record as the years go by.
“We’re just going to continue to get better and better,” said Sullivan.
Many of the JV stars will be moved up to the Varsity team next year, but new players straight out of youth basketball will take their places. And with these new players will come a new season and possibly a new age in Darien Basketball.

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