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The men’s basketball team has been training and practicing hard to prepare for the upcoming season.
Faisal Aden, sophomore, who plays guard, feels the team must work together in order to achieve their goals.
“As a team, we’ve got to get better every day,” said Aden. “We got to push each other to get better every day. Our number one goal is to win conference.”
The players feel like working and practicing hard is the right way to go, in order for them to have a successful season. Working together also means the sophomores show leadership skills.
Aden feels the sophomores could have helped prepare the team more for conference last year. Therefore, this season, Aden and his fellow sophomore teammates look forward to being a role model to the freshman players. It is important to instill into the freshman, how much more intense conference is than the regular season, and how prepared they need to be.
“People don’t understand that it (Junior College sports) is very competitive,” said Aden. “I thought it was going to be easy, but it’s not easy at all.”
Derrian Bell, freshman point guard, feels that leadership skills are also needed to be successful.
“A difference from last year is that we have more leaders, “said Bell. “First thing first, we got to play together and we got to play as a team.”
At this point in time, the team is focusing on practicing hard and getting in shape for the upcoming season. They feel that Derrick Worrells is a good coach who can definitely get them where they need to be.
Last season, the men’s basketball team only lost 7 games which is an improvement from the year before. This season they look to continue improving and hopefully have an undefeated season. One more thing that could help them to have a successful season is more attendance at the games.
“We can use more fans, if everybody could come out and support us, that would be great,” said Aden.
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