Melrose Lady Raiders Basketball

If Hannah Brickley wanted to stake a claim to the title of Melrose's premier female athlete, she'd have plenty of support. But she has others recognizing her excellence, most recently the Richard Phelps Scholar-Athlete Award from the Boston Globe.

The Trinity-bound recent MHS grad is one of only a handful of scholar-athletes across the Commonwealth so recognized.

In addition to her academic excellence, she received Division 2 Volleyball Player of the Year honors, and all-scholastic, and all-state recognition in volleyball. In basketball, she achieved all-scholastic recognition and just as in volleyball helped lead the Lady Raiders to a Division 2 North championship to become only the second Melrose team to achieve the double.

Highest regards and congratulations for a great honor.

A seventeen minute interview with legendary coach John Wooden.

Off-season basketball simply gives players a chance to improve the core triad of skill development, conditioning, and team spirit.

Melrose has numerous teams participating in OTA (offseason training activities) on a voluntary basis. For example, last night in Medford, the girls, without any players who had extensive varsity playing time, and including three current freshmen, played extremely hard and deserve recognition for their effort (and the inevitable results). Clearly, many of these girls are staking out claims on future success. A player who becomes a "shutdown defender" become indispensable.

Note the core building blocks in the center.