Jess Cowan - NCAC Player of the Week!

Senior guard Jess Cowan

The past few days have been so exciting with our first two games and our first two wins! It feels great to start out the season 2-0 with anticipation building since we began practicing over a month ago.  After spending Thanksgiving with our families, we were back to practice on Friday, working hard to prepare for our first game.  As we traveled to Westminster on Saturday, we were all eager to put our new offensive and defensive systems to the test. While we were leading most of the game, they hit a shot within the final 10 seconds sending it into overtime. We pulled ahead in overtime and were able to come away with a win! On Sunday, we had our home opener against Penn State Behrend. We were down most of the game but we rallied in the second half and pulled out the come from behind victory! It was so much fun and a true team effort!  It is a great feeling to know that all of our hard work is paying off!

It is a Hiram tradition that after a win, the team rings the victory bell located behind the Coleman Center.  I'm proud to say that the bell has already been rung twice and we plan to ring it often as our season continues!

Costume Contests and Competitive Practices!





Lindsay Buckner and Brenna Host
won the costume contest!

After two weeks of working hard in practice, it was nice to take a little break and enjoy some laughs!  Prior to practice on October 29th, we had a costume contest.  Lindsay Buckner and Brenna Host took advantage of the opportunity to display their creativeness!
Since October 15th the team has been working extremely hard in installing a brand new offense and some new defensive concepts.  It has definitely been a work in progress.  However, we had the opportunity to compete in an intra-squad scrimmage over the weekend and saw a lot of things that we can be excited about.  All of the work our returning players did over the summer and leading up to our first practice has really shown.  Our first year players are also making a great impact on our team and learning things very quickly.
Everyone is looking forward to our first scrimmage on Saturday; it will be a great test to see how much we have improved as well as to see how much work we still have to do in order to reach all of our team goals.
Every indication is that this will be a very exciting year!