Cardinal O’Hara’s Maggie Doogan, left, is fouled by Archbishop Wood’s Kaitlyn Orithel in the girls Catholic League championship game last March. PETE BANNAN – MEDIANEWS GROUP
By Jack McCaffery
Maggie Doogan knew for months that moment would arrive. Chrissie Doogan knew it for decades.
Maggie is the reigning All-Delco girls basketball Player of the Year about to enter her final season at Cardinal O’Hara High. Chrissie, her mother and the Lions’ head coach, was the Player of the Year in 1993. Together for the last three years, they have enjoyed the most recent burst of success of a program that has trafficked in great players and better teams since the late 1960s.
Beginning Saturday afternoon at the She’s Got Game Tournament in Washington, with a first-round game against St. Mary’s of Stockton, Calif., the final go-around at O’Hara for the two program greats will be on.
Already?