The Dawson Blues Women\u2019s Basketball Team has once again wrapped up a very successful season. For the second year in a row, the Dawson Blues women are Provincial Champions in the D1 Women\u2019s RSEQ Conference Basketball. The provincial champions then went on to play at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association\u2019s national championships and placed third in Canada. <\/p>\n
Point guard Sorelle Ineza says that wearing the Dawson uniform has meant a lot to her over the past two years. \u201cThere are a lot of good players who have played here, and being able to be part of it is huge for me. The season highlight was winning the provincial championship. The second highlight was when we lost in the semis at Nationals. We were all shocked, but this game taught us a lot of things.\u201d <\/p>\n
Proud coach Trevor Williams defines success as nurturing the sisterhood of the team so that players maintain a high level of motivation to play at a top level and keep their marks up at the same time.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll five graduating students are getting scholarships,\u201d said Trevor, named coach of the year by the RSEQ. \u201cWe have had consistent results for the past five years. Our goal here is to play at the top level and to graduate all the players. It is even better when our students can get scholarships. There is nothing better than seeing them continue to play basketball at a high level and getting the opportunity to attend university with nothing to pay back.\u201d <\/p>\n
Trevor has been coaching the women\u2019s team since the 2001-2002 season. The former Olympian\u2019s vision is that \u201cDawson is the place to play serious basketball with a goal of getting into university.\u201d Two to three times a week, there is a mandatory study hall for the players. Any player who is struggling will get the help they need, he says. <\/p>\n
The recipe Trevor uses is to build this feeling of team solidarity or \u201ca sisterhood\u201d among the players, as he calls it. \u201cOnce you are on the team at Dawson, you have support,\u201d he says. \u201cEvery practice, they all say: \u2018We are sisters. We support each other.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
The basketball experience leaves a mark on the players. Trevor says that young women who played 10 years ago check in on the team and follow their sisters on and off the court. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I\u2019m coaching basketball, I\u2019m coaching life skills,\u201d he says. \u201cThe game of basketball is like life. The Dawson College gym is our house and we have to treat it with pride and respect. The harder we work, the easier it gets. We have to consistently work hard during practices and the games will be easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shooting guard Dahom\u00e9e Forgues says Dawson basketball taught her that: \u201cYou might be the best player in the world, but without teammates, you can’t win anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sorelle listed humility, giving back, not taking anything for granted and backing up words with actions as lessons learned on the basketball team. “Don’t talk about it, but be<\/em> about it,\u201d Sorelle says. \u201cPeople don’t care what you have to say, you’ve got to make it happen if you want to get their respect. No excuses, you’ve just got to make it happen by any means necessary.\u201d <\/p>\n This team worked hard and the scholarships offered to all graduating players is proof. Roxane Makolo (point guard graduating in Social Science), who was chosen to play on the All-Canadian team, is considering several scholarship offers. Two graduating players are going to the U.S. on full scholarships to play Division 1 Women\u2019s Basketball: Sorelle Ineza (point guard graduating in Social Science) is going to Hofstra University on Long Island in New York and Dahom\u00e9e Forgues (shooting guard graduating in Health Science) is going to Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Two other graduating players are going to Canadian universities on scholarships: Ekaterini Stoupas (power forward graduating in Social Science) is going to Bishop\u2019s University and Sara Esongola Biango (point guard graduating in Pure and Applied Science) is going to Ontario Tech University. <\/p>\n Basketball at Dawson College is a great tradition. According to Trevor: \u201cconsistently, we have one of the best teams in the country.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dawson Blues Women\u2019s Basketball Team has once again wrapped up a very successful season. For the second year in a row, the Dawson Blues women are Provincial Champions in the D1 Women\u2019s RSEQ Conference Basketball. The provincial champions then went on to play at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association\u2019s national championships and placed third…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":1811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}