Battling through numerous injuries, the WHS girl’s basketball team has worked through the pain with a record of 8-6.
    "Well, we’d like to have 14 wins and no losses, but it doesn’t always work out that way," varsity coach Butch Hooper said. "We’ve been really troubled with a lot of injuries. So it’s been trying, but it’s also given us the chance to play some other people."
    Senior Gabriella Brown agrees. "We’re a little low on players, like we were at the beginning of the season anyway. So that’s been quite a problem," Brown said. "So we had to go to our JV; to step up for us."
    Among the injured players are Caitlin Craycraft, Tori Crowe, Jessica Rice and Amina Affini.
    Sophomore Amina Affini feels that her injury has been a significant obstacle to overcome.
"My shoulder injury, and just trying to rehab and work through all the pain," Affini said. "I’m still like working out to try to not lose any of my skills or anything."
    Hooper feels that with the number of injuries in the season it would be hard to win the league but, "we’re gonna try to finish strong though, and hopefully if we can stay healthy we’ll finish strong and maybe we can have a good run during the tournament," Hooper said.
    One of Brown’s goals for the season is to stay healthy and do well in the tournament. "Since I’ve been in high school we haven’t made it past the first round so hopefully we’ll do that," Brown said.
    Hooper feels that despite obstacles and hardships, the girls get along as a team and are close as friends. 
    "They get along great, they’re good students, we never have to worry about bad characters that sort of thing. We’re really blessed in that we got a good group of kids," Hooper said. "What we’re trying to do is just to get better everyday. Whether we’re playing or whether we’re practicing."
    The WHS girls basketball team plays Wednesday at Loveland and has a home game Saturday against Kings.