{"id":1811,"date":"2015-06-04T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2015-06-15T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:59:10","slug":"1986-girls-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/06\/04\/1986-girls-basketball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Hall of Fame 2015: 1986 Girls Basketball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2015 Athletic Hall of Fame: 1986 Girls Basketball Team\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKZ9lU8hUK4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Led by Coach Ray Brown \u201955 (who was inducted into the <a title=\"Athletic Hall of Fame: Coach Ray Brown \u201955\" href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/04\/25\/athletic-hall-of-fame-coach-ray-brown-55\/\">2013\u00a0Athletic Hall of Fame<\/a>) and assistant coach Chris Edler, the 1986 girls basketball team posted an 18-3 record. That was en route to capturing the school\u2019s first New England Championship in girls basketball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The team was led by co-captains Connie Wilson and Mindy McLain Karakula. Missy Babyak was named New England Tournament MVP and Wilson was named all-tournament team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/05\/image003.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1909\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/05\/image003.png\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"289\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/05\/image003.png 289w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2015\/05\/image003-250x157.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>Among the players were\u00a0three of the top 12 scorers in Williston Northampton girls basketball history: Holly McBurnie Kissane (#6), Babyak (#8), and Wilson (#12). The team\u2019s average margin of victory was almost 18 points. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the 1986\u00a0yearbook, the team is described as an &#8220;experienced and well balanced group of athletes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;High scores Missy Babyak and Holly McBurnie teamed with Anne Woomer to form a strong rebounding nucleus. Chris Trinceri, Devra Weisman, and Jen Hatch anchored a bench that was useful in giving the team quality minutes throughout the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 1986 team consisted of\u00a0seniors Wilson, McLain Karakula, Trinceri, Weisman Kingman and Lisa Watroba DeVoie; juniors Woomer Bartoszuk, Babyak, McBurnie Kissane, and Penny Duda; and sophomores Jennifer Hatch Gubbins and Sue Colina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The girls basketball team\u00a0award will be accepted by\u00a0Connie Wilson &#8217;86.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>The Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony, dinner, and reception will be held on Saturday, June 6, 2015. Register to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=693\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nominate your favorite athlete or team for the 2016 Athletic Hall of Fame <a href=\"www.williston.com\/hall-of-fame\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Coach Ray Brown \u201955 (who was inducted into the 2013\u00a0Athletic Hall of Fame) and assistant coach Chris Edler, the 1986 girls basketball team posted an 18-3 record. That was en route to capturing the school\u2019s first New England Championship in girls basketball. The team was led by co-captains Connie Wilson and Mindy McLain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/06\/04\/1986-girls-basketball-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletic Hall of Fame 2015: 1986 Girls Basketball Team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletic-hall-of-fame"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}