This is a look at Galesburg’s Top Ten Career Scorers in both boys and girls basketball.
No cheating!! Get out a pad of paper to write your answers on, and then go to the bottom of the page when you are all done to check your answers.
Question #1- Which of the following individuals played for Coach John Thiel, and also was on Coach Thiel’s coaching staff?
A- Barry Swanson, B- Dave Peck, C- Gary Bruington, D- Frank Dexter
There is a book that is coming out in December about the NBA MVP, Nikola Jokic. The book is “Why So Serious?” By Mike Singer. It is on my Christmas wish list.
I heard a preview that shared a story about him as a youth playing basketball. He did something to send a message to his father.
Whether it is posting up or defending in the post, or if it is blocking out to rebound, players need to be willing to make contact. Obviously they need to learn to make the contact in such away that they don’t get called for a foul.
This rebounding drill is one that many of you have probably done before, but it with three wrinkles that are valuable in teaching the defenders to be physical when they block out.
Some critics say,"If you add another girls sport, you have to add a boys sport because of Title IX." This is absolutely, positively a false statement. Schools do NOT have to offer the same number of girls and boys sports, it is about the total opportunities for males and females.
Every school who has started Girls Flag Football this Fall raves about interest level and enthusiasm for the students, the parents, and the fans. Different people have different thoughts on why the sport seems.
To find out what is going on, I reached out to Galesburg HS grad, Alyssa Carl. Alyssa was a flag football coach at Bradley-Bourbonnais HS. First year football coach and first year team. It sounds like they had a LOT of fun on their way to finishing 4th in State.
33-2
(State Rank- #2)
The 1998 Streaks had lost to Loyola 59-43 in the State Elite 8. The reality was that the game was not as close as the score appeared- the Streaks were dominated. Loyola went onto win their second straight State Championship. The Ramblers returned 4 of 5 starters for 1999. They had three All-State players, who were all headed off to D1 scholarships- Laura Sobieszczyk (5’8” Loyola), Olga Gvozdenovic (6’2” Duke), and Elizabeth Fletcher (6’2” UW-Milwaukee).
So in the State Tourney game vs. Loyola, when we had the ball in a tie game, we ran “Help.” We hit Megan Pacheco coming off the screen. She missed the shot but scored on the rebound.
The next day when we played Lincoln in the semi-finals, in a tie game, we ran “Help” again. This time we got the ball to Sarah Larson. She drove baseline and was fouled with five seconds to go. She made both free throws to give us a two point win.
This delay concept was good for us because we were putting three players in the “triangle” and three players who could all shoot free throws when the other team decided to foul. Jaque Howard (81%), Sarah Larson (78%), Megan Pacheco (75%)
Also, it was effective because the three players in the delay were not all guards. As a result, the defenders were less likely to want to switch and if they did, it would mean that a post defender might be on a guard.
Another advantage of this delay system is whether the opponent plays man to man or goes into some trapping defenses- we are in a good alignment. We would want to go 2-1-2 vs 1-3-1 trapping defense.
1= Jaque Howard (Point Guard)
2= Michelle Flaar (Shooting Guard)
3= Megan Pacheco (Small Forward)
4= Jenny Zolper (Power Forward)
5= Sarah Larson (Post)
The ball starts in one corner.
First ball is passed around the horn to #1 to shoot the ball.
Second ball is passed around the horn to #2 to shoot the ball.
Third ball is passed to #3 to shoot.