By Bobby Black – Sports Editor

The Jonathan Law girls basketball team is excited to start the 2022-2023 season.

Law opened its season against Mercy on December 16. The team is looking forward to upcoming games against West Haven on December 20 and Foran on December 22. 

“We’re preparing for the season by just taking it game by game and working on our weaknesses and mistakes during practice improving everyday,” sophomore Chloe Konareski said.

This year, the girls team has a new head coach, Kevin Wielk. Wielk, who takes over for long-time coach Dan Young, was formerly the boys basketball coach at St. Joseph’s.

Last year, the team finished with a record of 12-8 and qualified for the SCC and state tournaments.

“We have a very tough, and well deserved schedule this year,” senior captain Sabrina Lawless said. “To prepare for it we have been working very hard not only in our practices but also going over our plays at home.”

This year’s team has a collective goal of making both tournaments. 

“Some of our team goals are the same as always like making both tournaments but having a new coach this season and some of our goals are different than most having to quickly build new relationships,” Lawless said.

The team wants to continue the momentum from last season and to do that, they need to build relationships with each other the new coaching staff. 

“Losing four starters and our past coaching staff makes it more difficult as well as having a young team, but I think a fresh start is going to be good and think we can be very successful moving forward,” Konareski said.

Lawless said she has set several team and personal goals this season.

“Some of my personal goals for the season are to average 10 points and five assists a game and to make All-SCC,” Lawless said.