Talk about a remarkable rookie season.
From a team perspective and an individual standpoint, Katlyn Roberts would never have imagined that her first year with the Grande Prairie Regional College Wolves would go so well.
Last week, the Wolves competed in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association women's basketball national championship tournament. Playing at Niagara College in Welland, Ont., the Wolves posted a 1-2 record, with a 68-65 win against the Mount Saint Vincent University Mystics in their opener and subsequent losses to the Algonquin College Thunder (57-45) and the St. Thomas University Tommies (90-71).
But, really, they were a little surprised to be on national hardwood in the first place.
"At the beginning of the year our coaches said, 'We have a chance to win provincials and a chance to go to nationals' and we were all like, 'Yeah, right -- Grande Prairie, just a little town,'" Roberts said with a chuckle.
As it turned out, head coach Dave Waknuk and his assistants were right. The Wolves (17-3) finished the regular season in second place in the North Division of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference, behind only the Grant MacEwan Griffins of Edmonton, who also went 17-3. In the ACAC playoffs, the Wolves beat MacEwan in the championship game and reserved their spot in nationals.
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