In 2022, the Lady Lancers Basketball Team finished their season with a record of 3 wins and 25 losses. Through just one offseason of game-changing player acquisitions, the 2023 Lady Lancers squad boasted 22 wins and 8 losses, the largest turnaround in the NJCAA that season.

Coming into 2024, the Lancers retained their top three leading scorers from last season, and they are the only returning players from that roster. Sophomores Kennedee Clark and sisters Chloe and Mariya Sisco plan to be a keystone for the team, while helping the freshmen “get used to the pace of college basketball.”

To continue the team’s momentum from last season, Mariya Sisco knows that chemistry on the court is just as important as the product outside.

 “We have team dinners,” she said. “We do team hangouts outside with the coaches just to make sure everyone is getting along with each other.”  

While there are only three returning players from last year, the roster contains five sophomores. This came to fruition through the increasingly popular realm of transfer students, which Coach Tanner Morris described as “the biggest thing as a coach at the junior college level”. 

Maren McCallister, one of two sophomore transfers, comes from Concordia University, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 “Maren wasn’t playing much,” Coach Morris said. “Their school announced that they were ending athletics at the end of this season, so she was looking for a fresh start. She’s going to come here and have an opportunity to play a lot, and get re-recruited.” 

The second sophomore transfer student, Alexandria Wolff, commonly referred to by Morris as “Allo,” comes from a program that had won 8 games last year.

“She put up good numbers,” Morris said. “She’s from Milwaukee and wanted to be closer to home. Her high school coach reached out to me, and it worked out really well.”

Once the roster is built, the work begins for the Lady Lancers.

Mariya Sisco talked about building on last season’s momentum.

“A lot of it comes with knowing our roles,” she said. 

Freshman Nevada Holm agreed that getting to know the other members of the team is important. 

“Finding other teammates who play the same position as you helps you learn from them and learn from your mistakes,” she added. 

Holm also recognized the only sophomore forward on the roster, Kennedee Clark, who averaged over 10 points per game last season. 

The season opener is narrowing in for this highly anticipated Women’s Basketball season. The Lady Lancers begin their season at home.

Tipoff takes place at 1 p.m. Saturday at the college in F wing.