Kelsey Evans Blog - Basketball Begins

Written by Elon Phoenix on 9:54 AM

After a long awaited summer the cold weather has finally arrived, which can only mean one thing…basketball season is here! It feels like centuries ago when we played our last game and “excited” only begins to scratch the surface of the feelings throughout our team. Let me go ahead and introduce myself. My name is Kelsey Evans and I am a sophomore forward on the Elon women’s basketball team. This blog will give readers an inside look at our team throughout the season. I will be blogging throughout the year including road trips, team functions, and maybe a funny story or two.

The regular season kicks off this week with our annual Phoenix Classic Tournament, Friday-Sunday. We will take on Fordham on Friday afternoon and Troy Sunday afternoon. We’ve had one scrimmage and an exhibition game so far, and both went extremely well! In our exhibition against Chowan we scored 97 points with four people in double figures! The team came out extremely strong pushing the ball in transition and forcing turnovers through our press. It was exciting to see everything finally come together after we’ve been practicing for over a month. The chemistry within the team is undeniable, this team plays incredibly well together and that is the reason for this year’s theme “One Heartbeat.” What this means is that everything we do, we will do as one team with one heartbeat.

To build on this theme we did things such as the Elon Challenge full of team building exercises in the preseason. For example, everyone partnered up and grabbed a blindfold. One person was blindfolded while the other had to lead them on a blind walk using only their voice to communicate.

We also volunteered as a team at Mebane on the Move 5K race, had Nike performance trainers come in for two days to work on different aspects of our game, and last but not least, we went on a team golf outing, which thankfully left everyone unharmed!




Thanks for reading! Hope to see everyone on Friday when we kick off our regular season!! Wear your maroon and gold!!!

- Kelsey Evans