Kelsey Evans Blog - Road Trip!

Written by Elon Phoenix on 12:59 PM

Hello fans!

I'm so excited to write this week's blog after our first road victory over Morgan State! Since last week’s blog, we've played both No. 10 ranked West Virginia and Morgan State. West Virginia was a great game for our team, and it allowed us to compete against truly one of the best teams in the country. Let's just say BIG EAST really does mean BIG, it might as well just be called the BIG STRONG and AGGRESSIVE EAST. It was a great experience for us and we learned a thing or two along the way.

Today's win over Morgan State was a great game for us to get back to doing the things we're great at as a team. West Virginia, being so aggressive and out in the passing lanes, made it hard for us to execute and do what we wanted to do. With an eight-point win over Morgan State, we claimed our first road win of the year! I'm pretty sure we matched their fans as well, as we had an awesome fan section today.

Our trip to Baltimore was centered on visiting the hometown of our senior Julie Taylor. Julie's family had the team over for dinner Saturday night and we got to spend time with some of Julie's family, which was great. Julie's parents live right in the center of downtown and have an awesome view from the top of their deck where we got our team picture (below).

Coach Stockdale even made a new friend, Julie's brother's new puppy, Olive. I'm surprised Olive wasn't sitting with us on the bench today to be quite honest.


While on the road we try to keep it as interesting as possible. This week coach Stockdale transformed from assistant coach to professional beautician, waxing Ali's eyebrows! Don't worry, I snapped a picture for you!


Also, we got in the holiday spirit by singing Christmas carols on the bus, even if we didn't know the words and just repeated fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!!

Needless to say it was a very eventful week, and we had to do something to keep us occupied while we spent nearly 30 hours on the bus! We take some time off from games due to finals this week and next but we take the floor on December 18 for our first home conference game against Western Carolina. The game will be a White Out at Alumni Gym, and all Elon fans will get a white t-shirt at the door. Hope to see you all there!

- Big Kelsey