After a win against the Ontario Tech Ridgebacks twice this weekend, Queen’s Women’s Basketball is six games into an undefeated season.
On Nov. 17, the Gaels beat Ontario Tech 83-35 at home before a 97-36 win on Nov. 18 in Oshawa.
The Gaels are currently ranked third in the U SPORTS rankings.
“We’re obviously in a place where we want to be right now,” Head Coach Claire Meadows told The Journal. “If we can take care of today, then the rest will take care of itself moving forward, not placing weight on rankings or wins and losses right now.”
In an earlier interview with The Journal, Meadows shared her team is looking to continue improving on their strengths and weaknesses, which is something the team has been working towards during practice.
“In anything in life, not just basketball, if you can look at each day and say we were our best selves, and we got better, I think that’s the ultimate goal,” Meadows said.
“Regardless of outcome, if you can surrender to the wins and losses and look at each day and say you’ve gotten better, I think we’re growing as basketball players, but we’re equally growing as humans.”
Meadows emphasized how the team’s practices dictate their court performance.
“We’ve been quite detailed in our approach to practices in of what we want to get better at and improve on. We’ve put a pretty heavy emphasis on our defense,” she said. “Especially within the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen a great improvement in that area.”
Meadows emphasized how practices can help with the team’s mentality in each game.
“We talk about trying to raise the level of competition within everything that we’re doing,” Meadows continued. “I think being very detailed, in particular about the structure of each day, [ensures] that we are elevating the competition in our practices.”
Moving forward, Meadows and her team continue looking at each game as its own separate challenge. When asked what team they were anticipating being their next challenge, Meadows mentioned their game against the Brock Badgers on Nov. 24.
“We don’t look too far ahead of what’s next. Our sole focus right now is this Friday, and preparing for that and showing up for that,” she said. “Then we’ll move on to whatever is next after that.”
The Gaels’ next home game is Dec. 1 in the ARC as they take on the Guelph Gryphons, followed by a game against the Algoma Thunderbirds the next day.
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