Spring time Training for LBCC Women's Basketball

Swish! is the sound you hear when the ball hits the net, and nobody else is in there except you.  
That is what I heard around 3 o'clock when I looked in there I saw one of the women from Linn-Benton's basketball team they were shooting using the shooting machine which is a high tech machine that lets you spot up and then it spits out a basketball every few seconds.  
When 4 o'clock rolled around I started seeing other players show up previous players from the team and players trying out for the team.  Coach Harold came in and said 'Today we are going to do some 3 on 3 and 5 on 5 to get everyone in the flow again."  That is exactly what they did it felt like a regular basketball class except with the coach teaching the class and you actually get something out of it.
After they divided up the players into teams they just played until time ran out and then you switched courts.  During the first game I went over to Coach and asked her about the new player they are signing and she said " She is in the Cavalier jersey and her name is Maddy."  So after they were done with the last scrimmage Coach Harrold, Maddy, and myself went into a room and I asked her a few questions.
 Her name is Maddy Otunga she came from Clackamas High School. She has grown up with playing basketball her whole life her parents played basketball, her sister played, so that means she was into playing basketball.  With being nurtured into the game she has fallen in love with it, but that is not the only sport she played Softball was the other sport she had played through high school and grew up playing as well.  
Her parents helped her through the 16 years of basketball and softball, but her sister was the one who gave her the confidence by giving her advice and Maddy watching her made her a better player and why she loves the game.  
Maddy came to Linn-Benton because she liked the coach, the team, the community college plan with the 2 years then being able to transfer instead of going directly to a university,  and she enjoys how it's close to home.
Maddy has lived her life by " If you are being undervalued then push through, and you will be better in the end."

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