Pride Basketball Tryouts Commence

The Student Newspaper of John H. Pitman High School.

November 21, 2012

During the last week of October through the beginning days of November, boys and girls of all four grades gathered in the gym at different times and days to try out to see if they would make the teams for this fast-paced winter sport we call basketball.

Many students tried out for frosh, junior varsity, and varsity and some got moved up while trying out. Knowing that only few will make the teams and others will leave disappointed serves as motivation. The conditioning days lasted for about a week and they were also part of the try outs. The coaches could only choose about 10 to 13 people on a team, so they had to choose well and keep an eye on the players they saw had good technique.

On the girls’ basketball, the frosh coach, Julie, chose 12 girls on the team. The JV coach, Katie, chose about 11 girls, some freshmen and some sophomores. The varsity coach, Kelly, place 10 to 11 players in the team. These girls have also started the shoot-a-thon fundraiser for the season. This will help them buy uniforms and other necessary things. On the boys’ teams only about 10 to 13 made the team.
The first games start on the last week of November. The varsity game is a home game on Monday the 26th of November. Junior varsity plays their first tournament at Weston Ranch on the 29th, 30th, and 1st of November and December. The frosh team also plays the same days as the JV team, but they play an away game at Merced. The boys’ varsity plays on the same day as the girls’ varsity versus the same team. The junior varsity plays the 28th of November and the 1st of December in the Modesto tournament along with the frosh team.

Since the season is just beginning the players are practicing and getting better.
Come and cheer for our basketball players!

About the Contributor

Josilene Quintana, Staff Writer (9)

In 1998, on the 20^th night of April, the fourth daughter of a family was born. Her mother decided to name her “Jocylin” but the nurse made a mistake and wrote “Josilene” instead. Even though it’s spelled in a unique way, Josilene recently found out that this unusual variation of her name originates from Brazil. In time, Josilene came to appreciate the interesting spelling of this presumed mistake. As a child, Josilene joined the immersion program when she was in 4^th grade at Osborn Elementary. She continued in the immersion program until her first year at Dutcher Middle School. In the summer of 2011, she moved to the countryside of Turlock and went to Mountain View Middle School for her second year of middle school. In her 8^th grade year, Josilene became interested in 4-H program and decided to do a meat goat project; now she is going to be treasurer in her second year of 4-H. Another interest of Josilene is the Korean culture. When she has time she learns the language by watching Korean dramas. Because of her interest in the Korean culture, Josilene wants to attend college inSouth Korea. The college she wants to attend is Korea National Open University. During high school, Josilene is hoping to achieve a lot in academics and athletics. She dreams about becoming an engineer and aspires that the rest of her dreams come true.

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Pride Basketball Tryouts Commence