JAMESTOWN, NY - The Jamestown Community College (JCC) women's basketball team is in an adventagrous position for a JUCO school in 2024-25, returning six sophomores from a season ago. A season where they made it to the Region 3 championship game before losing to SUNY Niagara. That loss and a desire to hang a regional banner in the JCC PHED Complex fuel this year's squad.

"As a team, if everybody does their part, we will hang a banner. It just has to be a team effort; it can't be one player playing against five other people; it has to be all of us together," said sophomore forward Courtney Martin. "This year is the same goal: to get to the championship. "Hopefully, we can win. I feel like we have a way better chance to win this year than last year. We have way better pieces," added sophomore guard Myla Truitt. "This year is person. Last year I didn't get to play a lot because of the freshman learning curve. Being a sophomore, there's only six of us; some of us who came back it shows you want to be here. Definitely want to win a lot of games, and when we get to Region 3, take the cake," said a fiesty sophomore guard, Kaleigha Plett.

To take that preverbial cake, hard work and dedication to their craft on and off the court is what this year's Jayhawks believe will be the key to success.

"We just have to make sure we are in the gym outside of practice. Working hard on things we can do as individuals to make us better as a team with that extra step. We need to be more focused and stay consistent longer," said Plett. "We started getting our work in way earlier this year. This year our freshmen have picked up quite a lot. You can't tell who is a freshmen anymore," mentioned sophomore forward Mbali Mhlanga.

The six returning sophomores, including Martin who finished first on the team in blocks and second in rebounds, as well as Plett who was third in field goal percentage, are joined by a couple of transfers and seven incoming freshmen to round out the Jayhawks roster.

Jamestown starts the season being road warriors with their first eight games coming away from JCC, starting with the Bryant and Stratton (Buffalo) Bobcat Kickoff Classic on Saturday, November 2nd, with a game against Fisher College at 12:00 PM.

The ladies open their home slate when Garrett College visits Jamestown on Saturday, November 23rd, at 1:00 PM.