SLAY THE DRAGONS!!

Well we are already into practice number 17!! That is so crazy to think how fast the time has gone already. This past Thursday we had a scrimmage at Tiffin & let me just tell ya the dragons were slayed! Good job to everyone. One little problem on the trip back, that flat tire put a little damper on the evening! What a long wait, but we made great use of our time..I LOVE MISS MAYBERRY! It has been great to get each player a little better and Halloween was an interesting time. The costumes were great, although my roommate couldnt wear hers. She had the flu :(

I can't believe our first game is less than 2 weeks away! I cannot wait, we have worked extremely hard and hopefully it will pay off. GO JACKETS!!

p.s.- what a WIN by those Buckeyes this weekend...sorry penn state saturday just wasnt your lucky day..too bad. BYEEEEEEEEE



#33 Jessica Carpenter

Halloweekend!!

So training camp (aka the first two weeks of practice) flew by like a speedy little yellow jacket. While they were a very educational two weeks, I cannot lie; I will not miss the conditioning or the intense negotiations with Coach Strickland in order to lower the number of lines we had to run. (Although, I am grateful that he let us negotiate because my old bones can only take so much.) All joking aside, one of our mottos this year is “It takes a little more to be a Yellow Jacket” and I can tell you, after playing here for three years, that this is certainly true. I would put money on us outworking every team in the OAC in the conditoning area. We didn’t even let up once practice started. It is definitely tough at times, but we know it will pay off in the end.
The end of training camp was marked by our annual intrasquad scrimmage. It was a close match, but the gold team lost by three points :( It’s OK though because, in the end, we are all buzzing around the same hive.
After our scrimmage we had our Parents’ Reception so all the families could learn who the players and other parents were. I must say I did miss seeing all 50 members of the Heinlen clan who came last year, but I was happy that Mr. Heinlen showed his support with his traditional Heinlen barking during the scrimmage. (Woof woof right back at’cha, Mr. Heinlen.)
The best part of the end of training camp was definitely the Halloween festivities. We had some GREAT costumes this year. Sophomore guard/semi-post Monica Gustin was Harry Potter, but unfortunately she kept casting the Sectum Sempra hex on everyone. Not cool Mon Mon. She also kept pulling off my stinger, which is also not cool because if you pull off a yellow jacket’s stinger, it dies!!! Ah! Freshman guard Taylor “Tator Tot” Rogers definitely had the best costume. She went as Flavor Flav, and it was all kinds of embarrassing. All in all, it was a fun time with some goooood team bonding/dancing.

Senior Center Ariel Brough #45 Awwwww jackets!!




Former jacket Carrie Ritzler and sophomore center Kitty Cat Spisak creatively fashioned themselves some cute togas.

Tator Tot Rogers as Flava Flav and Monica Gustin (who will be angry, but you shouldn't have ripped my stinger off three times, Monica!)


Freshmen guards/roomies JoBeth Roll, as a flapper, and Megan Frisina, as a school girl.



Monica Gustin and I, wand and stinger ready!

TRAINING CAMP IS OVER!!

Although I am injured I know that everyone is excited that "boot camp" is now over. Theres no more "8 in 8" and everyone is ready for the season to actually start. We have a scrimmage coming up thursday at Tiffin and I'm excited to be able to go to that. Classes are starting to get a lot easier. Once I got my self into the flow of things I have been able to do a lot better. All of my grades have been brought up and I HAVE been going to class :-)!! Can't wait for the games to start so we can show everyone all about BW Women's Basketball!!!!! wheww!!!!

Gooooo Jacketss!
Morgan Coulter #20

Aww Jackets!

Officially two more days, and training camp is finito. As always, everyone’s doing a great job, working hard and pushing themselves each and every practice. Our first scrimmage is this Saturday bright n’ early at 9:30 in the morning. It’s the Brown/Gold Scrimmage and I can’t wait! And it’s also Halloween! This month went by so fast. Soon it’ll be Thanksgiving! Other than that school is going well. It’s getting harder and more stressful for me at least. I’m taking Italian as you may already know and well it’s hard. I study way too much for this class and I have Italian going through my mind 24/7. There’s a test pretty much every week and in fact there is one tomorrow. So I will be studying again tonight for that.

Awww Jackets!

Candace #3

1st week of boot camp

This past week was our first week of Training camp, also known as Boot Camp. Our first day was Sunday that consisted of two practices. We worked on defense for the first couple of hours and the second session was offense. During the week we had practice every night from 6-9 except for Wednesday was a nice night off. I got put on laundry duty and I put our clothes in the washer and started it, but I forgot to put the soap in... It's a typical freshman mistake, but don't worry, all our practice clothes are clean, I promise.

I'll never forget picture day a couple weeks ago, walking into the locker room to see your name printed on a Gold plaque on your locker. Hanging on your locker was your jersey and shorts. It was the coolest feeling ever. For a D3 school, it feels pretty professional.

Practices are good for the most part. No one likes running but the excitement and anxiety for the season to start is unbearable. Classes are going well too, I got an A on my psychology midterm exam and I'm going to brag about it because that is and will be the only A I will probably see in my life. Just kidding of course.

"It's a great day to be alive in the Hive." I love Bdubbs! Gooo yellowjackets...

Jen #21

Gotta Love BW!

So we are now less than one month away from our first game! Today will be our fifth practice, and it is becoming more routine everyday. We are learning more about BW basketball each practice. There is a lot of information to remember but so far everyone seems to be doing fine. Also practice brought us Coach Strickland and his lovely running drills. We missed him a lot during conditioning. Yesterday was our day off from basketball, and last night the team went to see a guest speaker. He is a comedian who talked about drugs, aids, sex, and his personal experiences with them. He had everyone laughing the entire time. Other than that our days consist of classes, study tables, and practice. Also if anyone was wondering this blog was written on time, and i wasn't suppose to write it three weeks ago.
Aww Jackets!

Rachel #10

WHAT A JACKET week!!!

So this week is probably one of the hardest weeks of the year because soon everyone leaves for fall break:) which means midterms are due! Today i Had two test and now I'm just so excited that they are over! Although everyone is leaving tomorrow for home or where ever they decide to go.... I will remain here at the great ol' B.W. My fellow jacket kitty Cat and I have to ball girl on Saturday for the football game and may they have some luck! Now that this week is over we get to relax a little before SUNDAY!!! This is officially our first day of practice! We have ALOT of freshman this year on the team and those first couple of days are going to be in one word ROUGH, but once everyone gets with the program and gets used to the swing of things, watch out OAC because here come the BW Jackets (with out new mascot emblem)!!!!

Cookies n' Cream

"Cookies n' Cream, Cookies n' Cream,
What's the matter with the other team?
Nothing at all, nothing at all
They just don't know how to play BASKETBALL... BASKETBALL!"

I thought I would start the blog off with a cheer since conditioning is over. It is pretty impressive that we ran 15 suicides and the championship maker twice.That equals 96 down and backs for the championship maker alone. (Calculations by Monica) I am also glad that we are now able to eat dinner before practices since Jess and I ordered a pizza almost every night of conditioning and are probably running very low on money already.

"The clock is ticking, and time is running out, so come on JACKETS, knock them out!"
That is what we will be doing to teams this season.

Sunday is the first official day of practice(s) and i'd say we are ready to goooo

Everyone have a great fall break, see you at boot camp sunday.

-Paige

Go bronks

Its going by too fast!

well only one more week until we start pracitce. Its hard to believe that it is coming so quick, seems like just yesterday I was one of the freshman that didnt know where or how anything was or worked. Pool workout was one of the funniest workouts even though i dont know how to swim...im not even joking... I think that i need to let everyone know that my mom and step dad are going through I really awful divorce and I just want to thank the ones that have known about it and that have been there for me! Im not trying to let that get in my way of playing or affecting the way I act around others. This is one reason why I have been going home so much my mom needs my help and she is one of my best friends and I am gonna be there for her. but enough about that! I have to tell you that I am excited that Tuesday we have pictures because I can't wait until I get to put on my uniform :))))) that will probably be the highlight of my week ( i know lame right haha) but seriously it will probably will be. we all know classes arent that fun and mine are definitely not that fun! I have a big sociology test wednesday and i have been studying my butt off for it that way my mom doesnt kick my butt for a bad grade:/ this past weekend one of my best friends came up from north carolina and I got to spend the weekend with her, i miss my friends and home so much! I never really thought that I would get homesick because I was so excited to leave but it is all catching up with me now! college life is really starting to set in with me and im finally learning how to adjust! but i hope everyone is doing good as we start another week at good ol BW!!!!!!! bring on another week conditioning:(

Reanne

ALMOST HERE!!

HEY EVERYONE! This week is our last week of conditioning and we can actually get out the basketballs for practice. Last Friday we had our pool workout and it was really fun, we played water basketball!! AND everyone can practically dunk on those rims:) Official training camp is approaching! Sunday is the beginning. Classes are going well, I love my major classes they are so fun! My anatomy class is the hardest right now because I have a tough time with cadavers and there is soooo much memorizing! Anyways! I am so ready for practices to start along with the season! GO JACKETS!

NANCY COULTER #32

living the dream :)

Well it's already October, where did the semester go? It's already midterms this week. School is going by so fast. As Monica already stated we hate economics, but LUCKY me I decided to drop that lovely class ( BYEEE DR.CHEN). This week happens to be homecoming week and as you can see coach put up some pictures from the pep rally. JoBeth was nominated for jacket princess, but although she did not win she's always my jacket princess. Taylor "TATOR TOT" Roger was rocking this sweet shirt expressing her jacket pride. It was pretty sweet and was labeled "capture the cardinals".  BW is full of jacket enthusiasts such as tator tot. Basketball conditioning is almost over. Today we had a fun workout in the pool. Megan and I got in a little fight during the races, she was trying to sabotage team beaver. We ended the workout by playing pool basketball, always a gooooooooood time. Tomorrow is the homecoming football game against Otterbein. 1) It better not rain because I have to be  a ball girl & standing in the rain is just not for me 2) hopefully boys will realize what defense is and will win tomorrow :) Just another week at BW done and so many more to go. 

SCHOOL SPIRIT!

Just finished the fall pep rally for Homecoming. Lots of fun for all. Marching band, dance teams, cheerleaders, lots of students and school spirit!