2008 Woodie Awards
Challenging road ahead for Lady Rams
By Mike Heiman
Issue date: 1/21/08 Section: Sports
Everyone knows Rome was not built in a day. Hell, it probably took years to build the Coliseum.
Not because it was an enormous structure with elaborate decorations set in the heart of the world's premiere power, but because a creation did not always follow the blue print laid out for it. A stone might crack and another stone is needed to fill its place. A hinge might bend but it is so far entrenched into the structure that the remainder of the building must be built while that hinge is bent. But the difference between the stone and the hinge is that while one is replaceable, the other has become a foundation and therefore must be repaired. Because if it is replaced, the entire building falls and the project must begin all over again.
Welcome to the world of the West Chester University Lady Golden Rams basketball team. Their leading scorer is that hinge which is wedged so deeply into the foundation of the team but is bent just enough that her teammates must rally around her and keep chugging along.
Katie Kline has been out since early December with a broken foot. When she went down, it was not good, plain and simple. Her loss on the court was something the team could ill afford. A once promising season had taken a heavy blow to the gut. It hurt, badly. What almost all consider to be the most brutal part of the schedule was coming up and now had to be done without the premiere offensive threat on the team. A large chunk of the stretch of games came on a vicious road trip over the semester break.
A daunting task, the trip may one day soon be looked at as a turning point in the season, as it had some rays of light which came at the most opportune moment. A loss is a loss, this is true. But against Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) the Lady Rams played some of their best basketball of the season. They lost by ten points to the 12th ranked team in the country. IUP was considered far superior on the court than any other team in the PSAC. But West Chester put up as good a fight as anyone could have imagined against a nationally ranked opponent, on the road, following a few heartbreaking losses, without their top scorer.
Not because it was an enormous structure with elaborate decorations set in the heart of the world's premiere power, but because a creation did not always follow the blue print laid out for it. A stone might crack and another stone is needed to fill its place. A hinge might bend but it is so far entrenched into the structure that the remainder of the building must be built while that hinge is bent. But the difference between the stone and the hinge is that while one is replaceable, the other has become a foundation and therefore must be repaired. Because if it is replaced, the entire building falls and the project must begin all over again.
Welcome to the world of the West Chester University Lady Golden Rams basketball team. Their leading scorer is that hinge which is wedged so deeply into the foundation of the team but is bent just enough that her teammates must rally around her and keep chugging along.
Katie Kline has been out since early December with a broken foot. When she went down, it was not good, plain and simple. Her loss on the court was something the team could ill afford. A once promising season had taken a heavy blow to the gut. It hurt, badly. What almost all consider to be the most brutal part of the schedule was coming up and now had to be done without the premiere offensive threat on the team. A large chunk of the stretch of games came on a vicious road trip over the semester break.
A daunting task, the trip may one day soon be looked at as a turning point in the season, as it had some rays of light which came at the most opportune moment. A loss is a loss, this is true. But against Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) the Lady Rams played some of their best basketball of the season. They lost by ten points to the 12th ranked team in the country. IUP was considered far superior on the court than any other team in the PSAC. But West Chester put up as good a fight as anyone could have imagined against a nationally ranked opponent, on the road, following a few heartbreaking losses, without their top scorer.
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