A NEW season brings a new challenge for the Lady Hornets with a move to the South West Conference in the Country Basketball League.
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Damien Kilpatrick has taken over from Gareth Hiscock as senior coach for this season.
He expects a host of junior players to suit up for the Lady Hornets for the first time at the weekend against Portland at home.
“We have had a few changes but we have a lot of youth coming through,” he said.
“We have Georgia Carberry, Steph Glover, Ella Friend, Ella Amos, Molly Lakin and Nekaela Butler and a few of them could be suiting up this weekend. We have a good group of senior players with a good mix of juniors coming through.”
The Lady Hornets have lost a couple of players in Maddi Iredell and Ally Hiscock but have gained Faith McKenzie back.
“She is a big in for us this season and will slot straight in,” Kilpatrick said.
The Lady Hornets fell short in the grand final in the North West conference last season and have now switched to South West.
Kilpatrick said the opening stages of the season would be a learning experience.
“We have absolutely no idea what to expect from Portland or the league at this stage,” he said.
“We have to assume the Geelong and Warrnambool-based teams will be really strong, but it’s one of those things we will be finding out.
“We are expecting everyone to be strong. We have done a fair bit of work with fitness but we did have to drop off because of netball finals. We have trained a lot and we have been getting good numbers. The team will only get better.”
