Brooke Wilson (above) is going to be one of Carroll’s primary options this season. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
The Grace O’Neill era is over at Archbishop Carroll.
After four years of running the Patriots’ offense, O’Neill’s already on her way to being a four-year starter at Drexel, where she just won CAA Rookie of the Week for the first time. That leaves Renie Shields needing to figure out who’s going to be at the point of attack for her offense for the first time in quite a while, one of a number of questions she’ll have to figure out if they want to better their Catholic League runner-up finish of a year ago.
Shields has no shortage of options to go to, her team quite guard-heavy; 6-foot-tall Army commit Taylor Wilson will be the de facto ‘5’ in the starting lineup, but Carroll’s going to have to rely on a group of pesky perimeter players to share doing…well, just about everything.
“We talk about, everybody’s a player, nobody’s a class year,” Shields said. “So when we ask you to step on the floor, we expect you to be ready to play that position, whatever that may be — and since we don’t have much height, everybody’s the same position, pretty much. We’re all guards, but we all have to contribute rebounding, defensively and offensively.”