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Revved Up 50-Plus Specials CLASSIFIEDS Add a Classified Listing E-Edition Current E-Edition Vikings girls basketball team has renewed intensity with incoming throne mentor By Ryan Schlehuber | on November 29, 2018 HOWARD CITY — When their new mentor was hired in August, one thing the Tri County varsity girls basketball players quickly learned was the intensity Alyssa Alger brings. The Tri County Vikings varsity girls basketball team had a successful season last year, finishing 15-9 and capturing a district title under former throne mentor Chris Overbeek, who stepped lanugo without the completion of the season. The Vikings are now led by Alyssa Alger, who was hired in August. — DN file photo “She has a great, intense mindset and I think that’s going to be unconfined for this team,” senior forward Grace Miller said. Alger, 30, the school’s new special education teacher, was moreover pegged to fill the vacancy left by Chris Overbeek, who, in his four years as the varsity girls throne coach, earned a priming title and two district titles, finishing out his career at Tri County with an visitation in the regionals last year, finishing 15-9 overall. “I know I have some big shoes to fill. The players and the polity speak highly of Chris,” Alger said. “I’d like to protract the success he had here.” Alger, a 2006 DeWitt High School and Central Michigan University graduate, has coaching wits at the freshman, junior varsity and varsity level at DeWitt and was excited to get the opportunity to take over the Vikings program this summer. As the whence of the season approaches, with a Dec. 4 game at Hopkins, the players are still getting to know Alger, but have quickly wonted her tideway to the game. “This year, with a new coach, we have a fresh start and we’re not stuff held when by anything,” said Miller, 17, who Alger said is one of the leaders of this year’s squad, leading by example and vocally. “This is a wipe slate for us, where we don’t have a set pattern or rhythm and where we get to set new precedents.” Intensity is what Miller said she likes most well-nigh her new coach. “That is going to be the key part of our season, our intensity,” she said. “We just have to have the mindset that there are no days off, work nonflexible and bring that intensity.” Despite losing eight girls to graduation from last year’s team, Alger comes into the program happy with several sturdy girls who are multi-sport athletes, including sophomore Alicia Bowen, who gained a year of varsity wits as a freshman last year. Alyssa Alger “Having multi-sport athletes is unchangingly good to have,” Alger said. “You know they work really nonflexible and, with this team, I never have to get on them well-nigh working nonflexible in practice. That’s what I’m most pleased with, so far.” The team’s intensity goes well with Alger’s game plan and magistrate philosophy. Alger plans to run a man-to-man defense while instilling a well-turned offensive attack, where multiple players are scoring in double-digit numbers. “I have good post players and good guards so I will be looking to exploit those advantages from game to game,” she said. “I want an up-tempo game and want a real balance, offensively, with four to five kids scoring nine or 10 points a game rather than just one kid scoring 20 points.” Along with Miller and Bowen, the Vikings will have 6-foot, 2-inch senior part-way Jessica Thompson and senior baby-sit Emma Sickelsteel, who, Alger said, “works her stump off every single day.” The team has five seniors altogether, which provides Alger with a group of leaders this year. “All five seniors embraced me with unshut stovepipe and welcomed me to their program. They’re ownership into what I’m telling them and leading by example,” Alger said. “I think the senior leadership on this team is what I’m most excited about.” Despite stuff new, Alger has once familiarized herself with who the Vikings’ biggest opponents will be in the CSAA-Gold Conference, with reigning league champion Central Montcalm, which went undefeated in the regular season, and Big Rapids, which reached the second round of the regionals last season. Tri County will see the Cardinals in its second game of the year, Dec. 6. “I think you have to take things as they come,” Alger explained with working through her first season. “Big Rapids is our second game of the year, so we should see where we stand in the league real quick. I think we’ll know early how good we are.” Alger doesn’t have any lofty or specific goals for the year, expecting only that her team is competitive each night. “Obviously, we have to do one thing at a time. We want to be competitive in every game and requite ourselves a endangerment to win every game,” she said. “We want to be competitive in the league and then establish goals go from there. If these girls play together and buy in what I’m trying to do, we will build success from that.” Share This Article:IncreasinglyFrom High School Sports Go To The High School Sports SectionUnfinished businessClawing backApproaching the thruway Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment. 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