Today's post is written by Assistant Coach Marcus Moeller:
We have a reached an exciting time of the year! We have finished our scrimmage and exhibition schedule and now we are officially in preparation mode for the beginning of our competition season!! There is a ton of excitement in our locker room as we begin to prepare for our season opener, on the road at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, next Tuesday, November 16th. We look forward to having a full week of practices in order to prepare to kick off our season.
This last week we competed at the University of Arkansas in an exhibition game. There were several positives that came out of the experience. We competed very hard for the first 16 minutes of the 1st half, but a tough final 4 minutes sent us to the locker room facing a 14 point deficit. After several impressive runs in the second half we were able to cut the lead under10 points on 2 separate occasions. We felt good about the way we competed and were able to identify several areas from the game that we needed to get back to practice and work on. Overall, we were grateful for the experience and felt it served as a good springboard into our season.
With our season opener being on the road on the 16th, we are thankful that we will return home for 3 consecutive non-conference games. Those games will all be played the week of Thanksgiving. Monday, November 22nd we play preseason nationally ranked Northeastern State University (OK). The following Friday in our very own Pizza Hut/Fairfield Inn Thanksgiving Classic we take on Avila University. To finish up the Classic on Saturday we take on Evangel University. That will wrap up our non-conference schedule because we dive into MIAA play on December 1st with a road tilt at Truman State University.
That's what is on the horizon for our team on the court, but what is on the horizon for this blog? We are excited to kickoff the section of our blog where you get to hear from our players! Over the next several weeks you will get to hear from some familiar faces and also get to meet some new ones. Our players always enjoy getting to use the blog as a chance to speak to all of you, so be sure to let them know when you read it!
Want to know who is writing next week? Well I can't tell you but here is your hint...this player provided one of the biggest highlights of last year when she drove the length of the floor and won a conference game with 2 crucial free throws after we trailed by 1 point!!
Until next time...It's a GREAT day to be a LION!!
Marcus Moeller
Assistant Coach
