Wellington High School Basketball Celebrates A Stellar Season
By Jack Lowenstein
The Wellington High School boys basketball team claimed the regional championship for the 2016-17 school year, marking the team’s second regional championship in the past three years. Head coach Matt Colin was on the sidelines for both achievements, but this year’s championship belonged to a strong team of young men, who slotted into roles that propelled the Wolverines to yet another championship banner. The Wellington Wolverines defeated Coral Springs High School 82-62 in the finals to win the regional title. “It makes the game so much easier when you’re able to control the game the way we were able to control it,” Colin said. “We always had four players out there who could handle the basketball. It made it so that we were the team that dictated what was going on, not the other team. Anytime you do that, you get the momentum.” This latest accomplishment was all about the team working together and playing within the system that Colin and his assistant coaches set up for Wellington’s program. In years past, the game might have relied on the play of individuals, but this year was about ev-
Trent Frazier makes a last-minute slam dunk to put an exclamation point on Wellington’s regional finals victory over Coral Springs.
PHOTO BY GENE NARDI
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