GIRLS' BASKETBALL: GROWING UP TOGETHER : CANYON SENIORS HAVE ONE GOAL - PLAYOFF WIN.Byline: Scott Magoloff Daily News Staff Writer If one were to design a time line to chart the history of the Canyon High girls' basketball program, its most logical starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the would be 1996. Coach Paul Broneer took over a team he said, ``just flung shots from everywhere,'' with a nucleus nucleus, in physics nucleus, in physics, the extremely dense central core of an atom. The Nature of the Nucleus Composition of seven freshmen in the program. One of those freshmen, Leanne Suenaka, played varsity immediately and another, Janette Garcia, made junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. . The other five played on the freshman team, which went 0-16. All seven are now seniors who are attempting to bring the first-ever girls' basketball playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. victory to Canyon (14-8, 5-3), which is currently in second place in the Foothill League. ``Once in a summer-league game against Burroughs, we didn't even have a basket,'' forward Brooke Dupuis recalled from her freshman year. ``They scored our only basket for us, by running the wrong way (down the court).'' Dupuis, along with Karla Valenzuela, Tina Wagenaar, La Crista Fuqua and Jennifer Elmer, all endured a shocking learning experience on the freshman team. But with guidance from Broneer and junior varsity coach Terra Bruessel, the group learned the fundamentals and set the foundation for a program Broneer said is only going to be stronger in the coming years. ``If you didn't like basketball, you'd quit the first day,'' Valenzuela said of the junior varsity program under Bruessel. ``You had to love the sport to remain in the program.'' Bruessel had her reasons for pushing the fivesome, then sophomores and juniors, while she was coaching them on junior varsity. She graduated from Canyon in 1992 and remembers a program that ``nobody worried about when we went into their gym.'' ``They just worked harder than any other group I've ever seen,'' said Bruessel, who played and worked as an assistant coach at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. before Broneer hired her. ``I think their character is what it's about,'' she continued. ``Once you have a standard of players working hard, it becomes the norm in the program.'' Those seven seniors have been setting an example for over three years, projecting their desire on the younger players year after year. And the younger players, in turn, pass it down to the new freshmen and so on. With the exception of Garcia, who was declared academically ineligible in·el·i·gi·ble adj. 1. Disqualified by law, rule, or provision: ineligible to run for office; ineligible for health benefits. 2. prior to Friday's win against Saugus but was an impact until then, the seniors are playing for one last reason. They've done it all already. They have played for pride, desire, competition and victory. Now, it's about making school history in their last seasons of memorable careers. Broneer has taken the Cowboys cowboys, in American history. 1 Tory marauders, adherents to the British cause in the American Revolution, who fought in the contested area of Westchester co., N.Y. to the playoffs twice since taking over, but they were paired against powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. Buena each time and were blown out each time. Broneer and his players think their ticket to avoiding another meeting with Buena is by earning a No. 2 seed for the playoffs. Canyon was a No. 3 seed and an at-large team when it faced Buena. ``We're looking forward to getting a team more to our level,'' Dupuis said. ``Hopefully we can go a lot further.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) La Tricia Fleming Flem·ing , Sir Alexander 1881-1955. British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for this achievement. , right, and her Canyon teammates are hoping to make school history. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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