With new coaches, players and practices, the girls’ varsity basketball team is looking forward to an exciting start to this season. They finished last year having made it to the second round of CIF with a three-pointer buzzer beater by Heather Park in the first round game allowing Sage Hill to win by one point.

“This season I am expecting our team to be dominant in our league and take league title. I’m also expecting to go farther in CIF playoffs,” Park said. The team is looking to redeem themselves this year and hopefully take the win for both CIF and league games.

In addition to these goals, the team has been getting used to different approaches to practices along with the new freshman players.

“This season, we have new coaches and an even stronger desire to win league,” sophomore Nadia Akabari said. “I think we’ve been putting in an immense amount of effort and that will truly translate into our season.”

Akbari is optimistic that with the help of the new coaches, captains and the improving team, they can get even farther than they did last season with a great record. The biggest games to look out for are the ones against St. Margaret’s, Sage’s rival, and Oxford Academy, who the team lost to in CIF Round 2 last year.