Great Quote from Coach Rux

What Will Be Said About You?

At the 2011 Streaks Banquet, Coach Rux made a wonderful statement to the senior class.

71 Three Attempts

Florida and BYU with Jimmer Fredette combined to attempt 71 three point shots. Wow! The announcers thought that was unbelievable.

It should be pointed out that Bloomington and Galesburg combined for 80 three point attempts! We didn't share divide the 80 evenly-- Bloomington (8) and Galesburg (72).

More Pictures from Regional & Sectional

Thanks to Norma Rodriguez for these great pictures from both Geneseo and Metamora!!

20th Anniversary

March 22, 1991, I had double by-pass heart surgery. At the time I had no idea what was involved. My question to the surgeon the night before, "Have you ever done one of these before?" His reply as he rolled his eyes, "Yes, several."  I am very happy he knew what he was doing!

Sectional Championship Pictures

If you have pictures- please send them.

Bryant's Veterans Day Garage Party

Beginning of the season!!!  (Send more pictures if you have any. Bryants sent some from banquet I have added to that section.)

Pictures from Banquet

Rainee Sibley- Quick on the Court/Slow with Blog

Last summer when we went to Tennessee to camp, we struggled. Jason Shay watched and had an observation,"If you are going to press all over, you need to be quicker." His thought was if you are going to play a tough, half-court style you needed to look for as much size and strength as possible, but if you are going to play full court, you need quickness.

A day later Jason wanted to watch Coach Rux's sophs play. Jason and Coach Rux were good friends when Jason was in Galesburg. So as we were watching them play, Jason pointed out to a player on the soph team. His comment,"That is a kid you might want to look at, she is quick and she plays hard." The player he was pointing out was Rainee Sibley. 

Picture of the Year

Picture is from Streaks vs. Richwoods Sectional game.
Obviously we just hit a three.
Quite a contrast between the Galesburg fans and the Richwoods fans in the bottom right.

Highest IHSA Attendance

Attendance records for IHSA girls basketball tournament.

Largest  Attendance, Tournament

STATE FINAL TOURNAMENT

CLASS A: 22,375, in 1996
CLASS AA: 25,957, in 1997

Largest Attendance, Session

SINGLE SESSION

CLASS A: 5,974, Friday night, 1996
CLASS AA: 7,480, Friday afternoon, 1997

TITLE SESSION

CLASS A: 5,974, in 1996
CLASS AA: 7,454, in 1997

I wonder if there were 7,480 fans for the entire tourney this past weekend?  Thanks you to the fans of Galesburg and Taylorville!!!

RM Article on Season

As Galesburg High School girls basketball coach Evan Massey sat in Redbird Arena Saturday afternoon to watch senior Jessica Howard be introduced as a first-team all-state member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association, he couldn’t help but wish Howard was in her Silver Streaks uniform with the rest of her teammates.

With so many open seats, he couldn’t help but wonder how many of Galesburg’s faithful fans would have made the trip to Normal to pack the arena. And as Hillcrest — the team who beat Galesburg in the supersectional round 77-70 — took to the court to compete for the Class 3A championship, Massey couldn’t help but be a tad envious.

“The way you have to look at it as you only get one chance. We had our chance and we made a good run, it just didn’t turn out the way we wanted,” said Massey. “Every loss in the tournament is tough, but when you make it as far as we did, you would just like to have the opportunity to see how you would have stacked up and just experience how our community would have come out and supported us. You know Galesburg would have changed the whole atmosphere here.”

Nice Note

I received the following email from another coach--

Our kids loved watching you guys. My assistant took the team on Monday night and they were heartbroken you got beat.  The one thing they commented on was how nice your kids were and there wasn't any extra stuff that you get with some teams.

Galesburg Fans For All-State Presentation

IBCA All-State

The Illinois Basketball Coach's Association selected their all-state team on Friday. Congratulations to Jessica and to Jamie!

First Team
Ariel Massengale- Bolingbrook
Morgan Tuck- Bolingbrook
Jewell Loyd- Niles West
Mariah Smith- Richwoods
Emmonnie Henderson- Edwardsville
Linnae Harper- Young
Kat Yelle- Geneva
Katie Meador- Salem
Zahna Medley- Springfield
Whitney Holloway- Montini
Melissa Dixon- Johnsburg
Megan Rogowski- Hersey
Brooke Schulte- Breese
Chanise Jenkins- Young
Jessica Howard- Galesburg

Advice From Some Experts-- Enjoy!!

Our local paper like many local papers allows individuals to comment at the end of each story. I have chosen not to ever read any of the comments during the season. Just as the KKK hides behind a sheet so no one can identify them, the commenter hides behind anonymous nicknames. It allows them to express hate, hurt, and frustration without ever having to own their words.

A Galesburg story has it that in the 1960’s when legendary Coach John Thiel had a call in show, a particular father called in with a negative, attack filled question.  Evidently Coach Thiel recognized the voice so after fielding the question, Coach Thiel called the man by name and answered the question. Needless to say, after the man had his “sheet of anonymity” taken away, he didn’t call in to the show anymore.