SUN PRAIRIE - The Monticello girls basketball team has played its final varsity basketball game for at least one year.
Monticello coach Lori Brokopp said Thursday that Monticello will not field a varsity girls basketball team for next year due to a lack of numbers. The Ponies had eight players on the team this season and six are graduating seniors. The Ponies didn't have a junior varsity team this year.
The seven incoming freshmen girls basketball players in the fall, along with Callisa Briggs and Samantha Gierhart, will play a freshmen and JV reserve schedule next season, Brokopp said.
"It will be a bump in the road, but we just have to keep building," Brokopp said. "We are still alive and well. After that (next season), we will take it one day at a time."
She's confident there will be a feeder program returning. Brokopp said there are 40 girls playing basketball in fourth to eighth grade.
There are 11 seventh-graders playing youth basketball this year and Brokopp said she hopes to field a varsity team when those girls are freshmen.
This year's group of six Monticello senior players proved to serve as motivation for future players.
"They will see what it takes to play at this high of a level," Brokopp said.
- Mark Nesbitt
Monticello coach Lori Brokopp said Thursday that Monticello will not field a varsity girls basketball team for next year due to a lack of numbers. The Ponies had eight players on the team this season and six are graduating seniors. The Ponies didn't have a junior varsity team this year.
The seven incoming freshmen girls basketball players in the fall, along with Callisa Briggs and Samantha Gierhart, will play a freshmen and JV reserve schedule next season, Brokopp said.
"It will be a bump in the road, but we just have to keep building," Brokopp said. "We are still alive and well. After that (next season), we will take it one day at a time."
She's confident there will be a feeder program returning. Brokopp said there are 40 girls playing basketball in fourth to eighth grade.
There are 11 seventh-graders playing youth basketball this year and Brokopp said she hopes to field a varsity team when those girls are freshmen.
This year's group of six Monticello senior players proved to serve as motivation for future players.
"They will see what it takes to play at this high of a level," Brokopp said.
- Mark Nesbitt
