My assistant coaches and I are looking forward to the second half of the season's commencing with the first of three practices before a home game on Thursday and an away game against Davis College Saturday afternoon.
While the latter will be against a team we defeated in our first ever game-- what seems so long ago--this contest comes with built-in challenges of rustiness from a five week lay off and close to a four hour bus ride leaving the morning of the game. We will make certain to communicate to the players before then that what we achieved in our first game--while memorable or as the AD put it "made history"--our opponent will be better and tougher and out for "revenge".
Our team returns to the second half of the season with a couple of short and long term changes too: fully rested after a prolonged holiday break with our roster shortened with one player no longer academically eligible to play. All told, we have a schedule that will challenge us in every way possible: especially with 13 upcoming games in 29 days against competition that will have benefitted from having played many moree games.
Over a luncheon I hosted the Monday after New Year's, the assistant coaches and I reviewed in depth the first half of the season which ended on a losing note that left everyone frustrated And in talking through our upcoming schedule and the challenges we will likely encounter, we "gameplanned" some of the changes we know we have to make.
Tonight, we begin the process of putting it into effect...
By late Saturday evening, we will have a better grasp what other decisions may need to be made...knowing that as the first viable women's basketball team to represent Valley Forge Military College, it will continue to be a focal point of supporting interest and curiosity among the students and faculty and military and administration and trustees and alumni...
Richard Pomerantz
VFMC Women's Basketball Head Coach
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