ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The UAlbany Ladies’s Basketball crew will look completely different this upcoming season. 9 new gamers have been added to the roster and 5 gamers from final season are returning.
That is the primary time we’ve had a take a look at the Nice Danes this low season, and so they’re working in the direction of revitalizing and constructing a brand new tradition set round head coach Colleen Mullen’s philosophy of defense-winning championships.
“They did an incredible job at camp, and it’s actually nearly beginning to lay the foundations of our tradition and relying on the returners to put that basis of our successful tradition and our championship mentality and what that appears like,” Mullen mentioned.
Serving to lead that tradition are seniors Kayla Cooper, Lilly Phillips, Meghan Huerter, and Abby Ray. Cooper believes {that a} roster flooded with veteran gamers will result in them taking part in extra freely and sooner.
“There’s a number of grads and now we have a bunch of seniors this yr, so it’s all of our final yr,” mentioned Cooper. “So I feel we simply need to exit and provides all of it now we have, and I feel all of us all of us have the identical objective and that’s at all times good, and we’re simply going to depart all of it on the courtroom.”
As well as, coach Mullen has added Valerie Klopfer and Tiana Carter to her teaching workers.
