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Basketball
From left, Kimberly Douglass, Erica Baez, Felicia Castillo, Megan Ferrara, Michelle Ferrara, Majdal Zaineh and Michelle Lima.
Fifth-year coach Tim Nellegar says the Lady Mustangs will be really young this season, so he will use this opportunity to implement some new strategies. “We’re going to try to be uptempo and press,” he said. “We’re going to play our young players a lot and help them to learn on the job to build a really solid foundation for the program.” Junior honorable mention AllLeague forward Michelle Ferrara returns to start for her third season. Nellegar says she will be aided by the arrival of new assistant coach Ashley Flaherty who played the
same position at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Ferrara’s younger sister Megan, a sophomore, will have the unenviable task of replacing graduated All-League and second team AllCounty point guard Kristen Venning, who averaged 11 points, five rebounds, three assists and two steals per game last season. Venning was one of four seniors to graduate from last year’s 7-14 squad. Senior guard Majdal Zaineh will help Ferrara out in the backcourt. Nellegar says the second-year varsity player can help the team with
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her leadership and ability to see the floor extremely well. Two newcomers should make an impact on the hardwood this season. Sophomore forward Felicia Castillo played mostly junior varsity basketball last winter, but she worked on her game all summer and has developed a nice touch. Coach added that Freshman Kim Douglass also worked out with the program this summer and Nellegar likes some of the guard skills she brings to the table.
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