Hello again!
It has been a while and there is alot ot report about the Lady Eagles. The last I blogged, we were in a conference battle for a playoff spot. It turned out that we had to win our last two games against Mobile at home and AUM on the road. Our players made it happen and we ended up the #3 seed out of our division.
As excited as we were to make the conference tournament, we also drew a very tough and senior-laden team from Southern Poly Tech in Marietta, GA. They were #20 in the country at that point. We battled them for 45 minutes as it took them overtime to finally defeat us 59-48. They went on to win the SSAC championship.
After the season, we had our post season player meetings and I am happy to report that ALL of our players are returning next season in some capacity. We are also starting a Junior Varsity team to give more kids a chance to play beyond high school. Sarah Hughes, who was a volunteer assistant last season will be on staff next season to be the Head Coach.
On the recruiting trail, God sent us four players that should help us get better this season; Nyla Johnson from Madison Academy, Christina Hayes from Shelton State, Holli Brooks from Chickamauga GA, and Meredith Botes from Briarwood Christian in Birmingham. Our JV team is also coming together with players from Prattville, Wetumpka, Birmingham, Atlanta, and more...
Our schedule is coming together and it should be much tougher than last season. We have road games at Lee, Shorter, Freed Hardeman, Trevecca Nazarene, and Talledega early in the season to go along with our Exhibition at Alabama State University. The conference will be very tough next season. All of our division teams are returning the majority of their key players and they have recruited talented kids to go with them. It should be a very exciting season in 2011-12.
Camps went very well this summer, with the highlight being our last camp (Basketball University) where we had 34 campers in our first year who all got better and competed hard.
Our coaches are on the July recruiting trails as we think ahead about our 2012 class. We have submitted scholarship offers to three kids so far and hope that they all commit very soon so we can start coaching them and recruiting 2013's. The 2013 class will be a key class if we want to perpetuate our winning ways as we will graduate several players that play alot. Coach Kat and Hughes are in Murfreesboro, TN as we speak watching a tournament and I am heading to Houston this weekend and New Orleans next weekend to watch kids play. We are very pleased with the product we are selling right now and are trying to stretch to get players that nobody thinks we should get!
I will try to do a better job keeping up with the blog in the future and I appreciate your support of Faulkner Womens Basketball!
God Bless,
Coach Sutton
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