Shooting for success: Highlands Girls Basketball Make Top 25 in the State

Chloe Guy

February 1, 2024

Senior Amaya Barton stated “We started out the season with a couple of losses, but now we are on a 7-game winning streak and hope to maintain that as long as possible,”

The girls basketball team is ranked in the top 25 for the first time in 4 years. The girls basketball team is 13-6 right now. Before Friday night in their game versus Ryle they had won the last 8 games in a row. The girls basketball team has also played a win over Assumption Academy, who is top 25 in the state.

This one game against them is what boosted the girls ranking they had won 58-43. They also had a good game against Conner High School which they won. Conner is highly ranked in their region.

They have big games coming up. The girls have 2 games over the next three days with Senior Night on Friday Night.

“Throughout the season we have had ups and downs but recently we have been getting more and more consistent and growing as a team. Something that helps us win any game is our rebounding and that is something we always focus on during practice.” stated Saylor Macke (10)

The girls basketball team works and practices extremely hard whether it is off season. The team has been preparing for the games for months on end before the season had even started. They have come a long way leading up to these winning streaks that are well deserved.

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Chloe Guy

Chloe Guy is a senior at Highlands High School. This is her first year taking this class. She decided to take journalism because she wanted to try something new and switch it up. She really likes to write stories about different things. She was never really into reading and writing but when it comes to something she is interested in she can write forever and ever. After high school Chloe plans on going to college somewhere out of state and hopes to go into nursing. School is really important to Chloe and she takes everything surrounding school seriously.

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Jenna Richey is a senior at Highlands High School. She was first introduced to photography her sophomore year and has loved it ever since. She enjoys going to sporting events and taking portraits. Outside of photography, she loves to go on drives, listen to music, babysit, and hang out with her friends. She is so excited for her senior year and to cover all different kinds of events.