Cardinal O’Hara’s Carly Coleman, left, goes up for a shot against West Catholic’s Amina Reid Thursday night. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)
By Matt Smith
Carly Coleman’s role on the Cardinal O’Hara girls basketball team is always evolving.
The junior has started all season for the Lions, joining classmates Joanie Quinn and Greta Miller as first-year starters after all were key reserves on last year’s Catholic League and PIAA Class 5A championship squad.
O’Hara coach Chrissie Doogan has been thrilled with the progress of all three juniors. Quinn is a scoring point guard and Miller can play lockdown defense and pop a 3-pointer from the corner. Coleman, the tallest of the three, plays all over the floor.
“She’s becoming somebody I can’t take off the floor, quite honestly,” Doogan said of Coleman following O’Hara 54-29 win over West Catholic in the first round of the Catholic League playoffs Thursday. “She’s somebody that brings energy and is unselfish … and she’ll make the extra pass. She fills her role nicely.