Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Burlington High School's girls basketball team returned to the postseason this year, and the team's head coach expects more in the upcoming years.
The following questions were answered by Pam Coppola, the Burlington High School girls basketball coach. The third year head coach led the Red Devils to the postseason where they earned a first round win and hung with unbeaten Reading in the quarterfinal round before they were eliminated. How much will the playoff experience help your players in the future? To have young kids around, whether they’re on the bench or in the stands watching it, you get a taste for that energy. Our environment for our home game was unbelievable. And those are the games that you live for. Once you have a taste of that, you want it more and more. I think we have kids who have that fight in them, and now they believe in each other with that ability to stay with …
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Burlington High School boys basketball head coach Tom Lyons has been on the sidelines for 15 years.
The following questions were answered by Burlington High School boys basketball coach Tom Lyons, in his 15th years with the Red Devils. This season, he led the team to an 11-9 record and the No. 12 seed in the North Division 2 tournament. Unfortantely for the Red Devils, they fell in their opening tilt on Tuesday night as they lost to Brighton on a shot at the buzzer. What was the key to the team’s success this year? The past couple years has at times in games, it was more ‘me’ while this team is ‘we.’ The seniors came up to me and I said ‘Coach I don’t care what it takes, I just want to win.’ Each one of them says it doesn’t matter who scores, who gets the credit. It’s been a great year because these kids have been nothing short of …
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Girls hockey head coach Marty Conley has the Red Devils poised for their first ever postseason appearance.
The following questions were answered by Marty Conley, the head coach of the Burlington girls hockey team that recently clinched a postseason berth for the first time in program history. What has been the key to the team's success this year, making the postseason for the first time ever? Some of that experience that we gained last year when were still really young helped. Having the year of varisty was helpful for the big group of eighth graders we had. It’s essentially the same team this year, and that extra year has been huge. It’s a much different level going from girls youth hockey to varisty. The other part is the girls confidence growing in themselves and each other as the season has gone along. They can see for themselves they were …
