Saints see team with six freshman not as bad sign, but exciting challenge
By Kathy Novak | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Kathy Novak
PHOTO CAPTION: The team has been practicing individually as well as holding group workouts in an attempt to work younger team members into the coach’s system.
“I want our team to work hard … but with commitment as a group … be the best you can be – on and off the court,” said Flagler College women’s basketball Coach Sherri Abbey-Nowatzki.
Having been a coach for 15 years before her start at Flagler, Abbey-Nowatzki knows what it is going to take for this team to reach the top.
At the start of her third season here at Flagler, Nowatzki has had the Lady Saints under a “full-fledge, year round commitment.”
When asked what the Saints’ preseason has looked like these past six weeks, Nowatzki replied, “They have been putting in NCAA mandated 8 hours a week. These hours consist of a combined conditioning, weight training, two hours skill work and individual instruction.”