Girls Basketball looks to the past and plans for the future

to practice. Ramnarase is a foil fencer, which distinguishes itself as the form where a player scores points by hitting your opponent’s torso with your sword’s tip. After all these years of practicing foil, Ramnarase thinks he has a few tricks up his sleeve. “I like to jump around a lot when I’m on defense. I might just look like I’m twirling my blade around but I’m looking for pairing so I can get right away and start attacking,” he said. When looking to the future, Ramnarase says he sees even more growth for his boy’s foil team. “Last year, our team was three seniors and me. This year, the team is almost all freshmen. We’ve been doing alright, we’ve had a lot of close matches but we only won one match…I’m going to practice over the summer and once the season’s over.” has left her mark on this program by leading her team in scoring, averaging 21 points per game, and becoming a 1000 total career point scorer.

In years prior, the Masters Girls Varsity basketball team has been extremely successful winning their most recent League championship in 2019. Though yet to fnd the same success from that year, the team has slowly brought themselves back into championship contention by making playoffs for the frst time in three seasons.

Making the playoffs is no easy feat for any team but is extra special for this team. The team went through a lot of adversity this year but rallied together and bounced back when it mattered most. Junior Forward and focal point of the team Nayia Chrysanthopoulos, was in and out of the rotation this year due to a concussion.

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JUNIOR GARVIN RAMNARASE PREPARES for a fencing match. He has had a great season and honored for his great play at the winter sports awards where he won the boys fencing team’s Coaches Award for his exemplary performance this season. He is has been fencing for a long time rst starting when he was 12 years old.

Throughout the four years since their championship, the team has seen a lot of change to both their teams roster, and their coaching staff. Senior captain and the team’s leading scorer, Dakota Daniello is from that championship team. She talks about her time on the team saying, ”Being that our team consisted of a lot of upperclassmen at the time we had a lot of energy and hunger to win since most players on the team were graduating and we had never won the championship. Being that I was the youngest on the team at the time, my time consisted of a lot of learning from the upperclassmen.” In Daniello’s last season with the team she

I’ve really been thankful that I’ve been able to connect with every single player on this team, even if it’s their frst year or their fourth year.

- Stella Simonds ‘23

Her injury, along with the injuries of a few other players, often left the team short staffed going into games.

Chrysanthpoulos said, “I was only out about four or fve games but I just wanted to play. We were having a very good year and after I got hurt it was just sad to watch my team play without me.” In multiple of the teams’ contests this season they only had six active players on their roster.

Chrysanthopoulos describes her team’s resilience and relationship with one another this year by saying, “During the entire year the team showed growth and teamwork. We had a strong connection off the court and when that was brought on the court we had a lot of success.”

Though the team wasn’t successful in winning the championship after a tough game against Saint Luke’s, the future of the team is looking bright. Not only does the team have players like Juniors Nayia Chrysanthopoulos, and shooting guard Zara Suzanto, but they also have three promising Freshmen. Freshmen Zaria Charles, Maddie Barnes and Emma Barnes have been key contributors to the team this year helping the team rack up wins throughout the season. Maddie Barnes has been one of the team’s most prolifc scorers averaging 10.8 points per game (the team’s third leading scorer). With continuous growth of the contributions of all the underclassmen, the team is bound to be championship contender in the coming years.