{"id":2919,"date":"2025-12-03T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:15:05","slug":"constant-improvement-the-goal-for-west-central-trojan-girls-basketball-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/2025\/12\/03\/constant-improvement-the-goal-for-west-central-trojan-girls-basketball-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Constant Improvement the Goal for West Central Trojan Girls Basketball for Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-275\" src=\"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WestCentralTrojans.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WestCentralTrojans.png 96w, https:\/\/bigsiouxmedia.com\/west-central\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WestCentralTrojans-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">The West Central Trojan girls basketball team finished last year with a two-point loss to Dakota Valley in the SoDak 16 to finish 14-9 overall on the year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s team will return eight players with experience from a year ago.\u00a0 Seniors Abbi Thornton and Ayla Kramer will be joined by sophomores Kacey Jaton, Kaylie Schutlz, Jordyn Phillips, Bailey Stallman, and Avery Eberhard along with freshman Ellie Knight as key players this season.\u00a0 New comer Mackenzie Skonhovd is also expected to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We excited to begin and expect to have a challenging season. \u00a0We are working hard to keep improving and to hopefully play our best basketball at the end of the season,&#8221; said head coach Joe Caffrey.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans will start the season on the road in Baltic on Tuesday, December 9th.\u00a0 \u00a0Their first home game will be Tuesday, December 16th against Vermillion.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Central Trojan girls basketball team finished last year with a two-point loss to Dakota Valley in the SoDak 16 to finish 14-9 overall on the year.\u00a0\u00a0 This year&#8217;s team will return eight players with experience from a year ago.\u00a0 Seniors Abbi Thornton and Ayla Kramer will be joined by sophomores Kacey Jaton, Kaylie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[41,142],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-girls-basketball","tag-featured","tag-west-central-trojan-girls-basketball"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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