Sunday, January 31, 2010

happy birthday candace and cat!















First off, Happy 19th Birthday to Candace and Happy 20th to Catherine! :)

We started Saturday off great, beating Marietta. We struggled in the first half but then turned it around in the second half and ended up killing them. It was a great team effort and we got every goal except positive assist to turnovers. "no food for youuu!" -Thanks for rubbing it in, Coach.

Then Saturday night we had a birthday party for Cat. It was a good time and Catherine sure loved blowing her birthday horn...over and over and over again. Candance went home and we called her at midnight :)

Wednesday we have Heidelberg then its Capital and Mount! Let's work hard to keep getting those victories ladies and stay on our way to get that ring ;)




-Paige

go jackets!















Sunday, January 24, 2010

Beating Wilmington

Yesterday, we played and beat the Wilmington Quakers 59-58. Just before leaving BW, we had a little bit of a situation. The bus that was prompt to arrive and leave at 8:45, didn't come til a little bit after 9am. After the bus finally arrived, we loaded up and were on our way. After about a 3 in a half hour drive and a quick stop at Panera, we finally made it to Wilmington and were ready to play. Throughout the entire game, the girls played hard, and stayed focused. Although the score was close throughout the game, the girls still fought, and fought hard. We faced the adversity, and brought home yet another W.

On our ride back home, us freshmen had to partake in a obstacle course on the bus. The course included jumping over Ali's legs, going under Shroeders legs, forcing your way through pillows being smacked upon you by Cath and Katie, rubbing Coach K's head and repeating the process over again, only in reverse on the way back. Jo's trial was the highlight of it all, beating out Paige's, head to the back of the seat fiasco. Anyway, on Jo's way back, I don't know how she managed, but she completely just flat out plopped on the floor. I thought she died for a sec. But she laughed, got up and finished, still managing to beat out Paige's score of i think as i recall 16 point something. As for who won the race, Rachel was the victor with a time of 6 point something. Olivia came in second with the score of 8 point something. As for me, I had a fun time doing it as well!

Our next game is this Wednesday at home versus JCU!

YJKA (Yellow Jackets Kick Butt)
Candace #3

Friday, January 22, 2010

At the Request of Her Holyness...

Amanda Schroeder has requested I add some photos from our last Game Viewing Party, and I am only happy to oblige. It was another fun night hanging out with everyone!











Junior shooting god Amanda Schroeder poses with her housemates! Thanks for supporting us ladies! Too bad Abbey's witty "Hi Amanda" sign didn't make it on TV.




















Freshman guard JoBeth Roll poses with her family and Amanda Schroeder poses next to her brother.



Freshman point guard Rachel Rossman poses by her parents, who like the Frisina's, are all about getting their TV time.

KIdder Elementary

One of favorites to do over our winter break is go to Kidder Elementary and help out. As you can see, we probably learn as much as the students do!!!
To the right are Amanda Schroeder and Monica Gustin helping students with some reading.

Jess Carpenter and Katie Heinlen helping students.



Everyone had a great time learning some new things!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

And sooo it Begins!

This coming Saturday marks the beginning of the second round of the OAC. We are all excited to get started and see what we can do the second time around. We are on a roll and everything seems to be falling into place. We can only continue to get better everyday! As far as school goes, another week of classes has begun and its going by pretty fast. Special thanks to Martin Luther King and all that he did to allow us to have a day off!:) The team got together at Ariel's again to watch the replay of our game. Jobeth and I's families managed to get TV time as well as my roomies so congrats to them!:)(Ariel if your reading this...time to post some pictures). No game on Wednesday so for all our anxious fans you'll have to wait till Saturday!!

Amanda Schroeder, #12

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Let's Goooo!

Coach asked someone to blog, so here I am. I has been an absolutely crazy break. It started off with a rough loss to DePauw at home. After such an upsetting defeat, our team met for five hours to hash things out, and figure out what we need to work on to make our season successful. It was a great but emotional meeting, and now this hive is back and stronger than ever. We won our holiday tournament by beating Manchester and Loras. Then we played Marietta, where sophomore post Katie Heinlen scored a career high 22 points! Let’s go Heinlen.

Rachel Rossman already told you a little about our game against Mount. I agree with her, it was a great victory. Everyone played hard and played together. We trusted our coaches and followed our game plan unselfishly. Sophomore post Nancy Coulter posted a career high and junior guard Amanda Schroeder schroedered the Raiders up and down the court. She had 22 points and played great defense! But nothing beats sophomore wing Monica Gustin’s fake pass/layup on the fast break. She earned herself the number one play on Coach Strickland’s Top 10 Plays of the Game Countdown. Let’s go, Mon Mon. After the victory, sophomore post Catherine Spisak made my career by bravely doing what no women’s basketball player had done before: She messed up Coach’s hair. Catherine went on to have a double double against Muskingum, so that must have a been a lucky noogie she gave Coach. Let’s go, Kitty Cat.

Off the court, this team has spent a lot of time participating in official and unofficial team bonding. We had our Christmas party where we exchanged joke gifts as usual, and the freshmen performed an original poem. Not to be outdone, the returners, all seven of us, performed a parody of “Bad Romance” which I wrote. I don’t want to brag, but I’m going to. I can write a mean parody. Anyways, it was called “Bee Romance” and we brought down Tressel Lounge with our beautiful voices and sweet dance moves. Let’s go returners!

Now classes are starting up, which is a bit sad. It has been fun to hang out with everyone without any outside stress for the past couple of weeks. I guess we’ll have to get back to reality at some point. One thing is for sure though; this team is closer than ever. We’ve also grown so much in the past three weeks it’s unbelievable. If we keep playing like champions, regardless of our opponents, and if we continue to get better every day, then we’ll be champions. Let’s go Jackets!

Ariel Brough, The Senior Center, #45

Some jackets and fans hanging out after the Marietta game. Back Row: student assistant/practice player Paul Crego. Middle Row: My roommate Brittany, freshman guard Megan Frisina, sophomore wing Monica Gustin, Me, junior guard Ali Stack, super fan Pete Taylor, former player Sasha Samara. Front Row: Freshman guard JoBeth Roll, freshman point guard Olivia "Feet in a Furnace" French, and former yellow jacket Courtney Ritzler.

A few of us watched our Muskingum game on Sports Time Ohio at my apartment. Here, Megan Frisina poses next to her parents who managed to get themselves some TV time. Next Saturday the 16th our game against Otterbein will be televised as well!



Friday, January 8, 2010

Mount who?

So on Wednesday we traveled to Mount Union! They were ranked 15/16 in the country which is pretty impressive but that didn't mean anything to us yellow jackets. I had on my lucky purple westlake shirt and purple hair tie ready for the game. I was also soo excited to see my sister although she had a mount union jersey on i still gave her a hug. We went into the game with everything we had knowing that if we did what we could the game would be ours. And OF COURSE we came out with the win. In the locker room the team celebrated by messing up coaches hair...it felt victorious! Anyways we play muskingum tomorrow at 3. It is on TV so we all have to make sure we put on our makeup before the game!

GO Jackets!!!

#10
Rachel Rossman

Monday, January 4, 2010

CHEERS TO A NEW YEAR!

well, my 2010 has been wonderful so far! We are currently undfeated with a record of 1-0 YESSSS! anyways, our last week of break will be pretty eventful. We have a big game against mount on Wednesday, seeya raiders & on Wednesday morning we get to go into Kidder Elementary and read and play with the kids. It should be a fun time. And on Friday we have our gpa dinner after practice. Unfortunately, my team lost so the gold team will be cooking a fabulous dinner for the team. Just call me chef Jess :) I plan to just enjoy what's left of my winter break, only a week! So cheers to 2010 and lets make it grand!!





#33
Jessica Carpenter