High school girls’ winter basketball started on Monday, November 17th. Brandon Eygabroad, the new girls’ Varsity basketball coach, assistant Jake Lyons, and a former high school girls basketball player, Riley Johnson, are looking forward to the 2025 season.
Eygabroad wanted 16 girls minimum for the ability to have a JV team along with a Varsity team. On the first day of tryouts, they started with 17, and now they are down to 13, not enough players, and that’s causing them to bring up 8th graders to help make a JV team. RULE
Despite losing star seniors Allie McKenna, Leah Kunz, Ellie Bessonette, Dina Schoengarth, and Adysen Bjorklund, when asked if he thought the season would be successful, Coach Eygabroad he responded clearly and confidently with “Yes, I think that you can find success in many different ways, not just through wins and losses, but the effort and the energy that you put into coming every day, as well as the discipline that it takes to show up and work hard throughout the season.”
Coach Eygabroad is excited about the competition this season will bring. Bulldogs will open their season against the Zillah Leopards, who finished 3rd in the 2025 Class 1A state tournament. He said, “I love competition, and I think it really brings the best out of people, and I think through competition you learn a lot, through even losing, but sometimes that’s when we learn the most.”
Coach Eygabroad thinks every athlete can improve this season, and he has a plan to make it happen: “By pushing them, each and every day, to try their best and to prove it’s all about getting 1% better every day, over the course of time.”
