Building Toward Success

Stephen's College is an all-girls school in Columbia, Missouri. They have a basketball team which isn't very good (5-17 record this year, and the school's all-time single season win record is just 9), but that didn't stop Dave Mezz from writing an excellent story about how the team is building friendships, and coming together to play better basketball. Mezz paints a picture of a team-building exercise that went for the first thirty minutes of practice in which team members had to say 3 aspects of their life, 1 of which was untrue, and other team members had to guess which one was false. To me it showed a program striving toward improving their basketball record as well as building friendships for those girls on the team. The team does show promise with 10 freshmen on their roster, and by doing team-bulding activities such as the one described head coach Dave Pavlovich hopes to build a team that will have more success than the program has had in the past.

I thought that Mezz's story had an easy-read type format to it, and that it flowed together very well. I would not make any revisions in what he did, because I enjoyed this story very much. To me this article provided a good look at an aspect of Columbia that gets forgotten in most resident's eyes, Stephen's College. And how even though their record may not reflect it, the Stephen's College basketball team is building toward a successful future, both on and off the court.

Publish Date: January 26, 2006 in the Missourian