Winter Sports Preview

As the fall sports season comes to an end, the cardio, preseason weight-lifting and mental preparation begin for winter sports — boys swim and dive, boys and girls basketball, bowling and wrestling. Check out how these varsity returners are prepping for the upcoming season:

Evan Deedy

Sophomore

Swim

What are your personal and team goals for the upcoming season?

“My personal goal is to try and set a school record in the 100 breast because I’m only two seconds off right now. As a team I think one of our main goals is to continue our streak of winning the league. One of our main competitions [Olathe East] will be at league this year so it will be really hard to win it.”

What are your personal and team goals for the upcoming season?

“My personal goal is to try and set a school record in the 100 breast because I’m only two seconds off right now. As a team I think one of our main goals is to continue our streak of winning the league. One of our main competitions [Olathe East] will be at league this year so it will be really hard to win it.”

Gavin Mclinney

Sophomore

Dive

How do you think you personally, as well as the team did last season? 

“I actually think I did a lot better than I thought I’d do — I made it to state and placed. And overall as a team I think we worked hard and were able to finish third at state.”

What are your thoughts on the upcoming season? 

“Heading into the season I’ve really been mentally preparing. We lost some really good seniors last year but I’m hopeful there are good divers and swimmers coming this year. I think we all need to focus and work on learning new dives.”

Kathleen Stanley

Senior

Girls Basketball

How do you think you and the team did last season? 

“Last year was our best record as a team for a really long time. We were 12-9 which was a lot better since the year before we were 2-19. Personally, I felt like I was a lot more consistent shooting.”

What are your thoughts on the upcoming season?

“Our goal is to be above 500 [meaning more wins than losses] and hopefully beat where we were last year. I think that this season will rely a lot on our bench. We have a really strong starting lineup but it will be dependent on people stepping up on the bench and knocking down shots.”

Jerald Young

Junior

Wrestling

What do you think will be different about this upcoming season compared to last season?

“Last year, as a team, we did pretty poorly. The good thing about this season is that a lot of the people that were high JV and low varsity are going to start to work their way up through varsity because of the experience since freshman year.”

Tony Friends

Senior

Boys Basketball

How have you been preparing for the upcoming season?

“A lot of it has really been just getting in the gym together, running pick-up [games] just to help get our chemistry going.”

What do you think is going to be different about this year compared to last year?

“Well I think we are pretty much better than we were last year because we have a lot more weapons, like players who can score better.”

Victoria Leal

Sophomore

Bowling

How have you been preparing for the upcoming season?

“I compete in tournaments around the Kansas and Missouri area and depending on how I place I can earn scholarship money.” 

What do you think will be different about this season compared to last?

“It’s always a fun experience when meeting new people who come on the team. It’s hard to say how the team will do with so many new people joining, but I’m hoping to make it to state again this year and place well.”