The 2018-2019 season saw the Varsity Girls Basketball team play their way to another 20-win season and the squad emerged as one of the region’s strongest teams. As with last season, the team’s successes were the result of hard work on their individual skills during the offseason, and working together during the regular season. 

Aside from winning 20 games, team highlights of the season included winning the Title IX National Tournament in Washington, D.C. during the Christmas vacation, dominating the IPSL conference opponents on their way to winning their second title, outscoring their opponents by an average of seventeen points, and playing very well against Bishop McNamara in the Bishop Walsh Girls Invitational Tournament on the last weekend of the season. Bishop McNamara at the time was ranked third in the nation. It should also be noted that four of the team’s six losses came against regionally, or nationally, highly-ranked opponents. 

While the team’s collective accomplishments were impressive, so were their individual achievements. Of interest is the fact that four Saints averaged double figures in scoring, with each one of the four, Morgan McMahon, Morgan Moseley, Skylar Treadwell, and Gabby Grantham-Medley each having games where they scored more than 20 points. As such, the Saints were especially challenging to play because they had so many dangerous scorers.

Unfortunately, Sixth Former Christa Bartlett, the 2017-2018 Herald Mail Player of the Year and team’s co-captain, was injured much of the season, suffering from a sprained neck and two concussions. Gabby Grantham-Medley, a member of the Second Form, stepped in for Bartlett and emerged as one of the area’s top players. Skylar Treadwell (Fifth Form), who was voted one of the MVP’s of the Title IX tournament, scored more than 15 points a game and scored her 1,000th point for her career around the season’s midway point. Morgan Moseley (Fifth Form) became the team’s other co-captain following Bartlett’s injury and developed into an even more complete player as she could score from outside and inside and was the team’s leading rebounder, averaging nearly seven per game. Morgan McMahon (Fourth Form) was a very dangerous scorer who had a number of games with more than 20 points coming from beyond the three-point arc and on slashing drives to the basket. Tessa Douglass (Sixth Form), the team’s other co-captain, was a steady defender and had a knack for hitting big baskets in key moments, most notably a three-point shot to seal a win against Academy of the Holy Cross towards the end of the season.

Off the bench, the team’s top sub was Third Former Chloe Saunders who was a tenacious defender and a solid shooter who broke open a couple of games with her three-point shooting. Also off the bench, Abby Barnes, a member of the Fifth Form, was a strong defender and rebounder while Amelia Shaw (Fourth Form) showed great improvement as a ball handler and shooter. Finally, Second Formers Kayla Turner and Elise Bamforth worked hard each day in practice and showed commendable improvement as players.

During the season Sixth Formers Benny Buah and John Okoro served more than ably as the team’s managers and, from time to time, played against the girls during practice.