College of the Sequoias women's basketball team stays perfect at 20-0

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- You'd beryllium hard-pressed to find a hotter squad successful the Central Valley.

With a cleanable (20-0) grounds connected the season, The College of the Sequoias (COS) women's hoops squad is presently the No. 1 ranked CCCAA squad successful California.

"We're astir winning," first-year Head Coach Tyler Newton said. "I ne'er truly enactment an accent connected record."

You can't spot it astatine practice, but there's a elephantine people connected the girls' backs.

Coach Newton says their games person go everyone's 'Super Bowl'.

"We hole the aforesaid for each game," Newton said. "We hole similar it's a authorities title game."

Coach Newton comes to Visalia aft 4 consecutive Golden Valley Conference titles astatine Butte College.

He's besides brought successful his full staff, including aggregate players from past year's squad astatine Butte.

Sophomore defender Jocelyn Media says it was a nary brainer to travel Newton to the Central Valley.

"There wasn't s 2nd thought successful my caput of staying," Medina said. "I already had a twelvemonth with him. I knew what we were susceptible of."

One of those erstwhile Butte players besides happens to beryllium a erstwhile section precocious schoolhouse prep star.

"She's a large leader," Newton said. "She's a large human."

Former Caruthers High School sharpshooter Morgan 'Mo' Trigueiro followed Newton, bringing her a fewer hours person to her hometown.

"Obviously it's a tiny town," Newton said. "But, if you cognize thing astir Caruthers, they're astir their basketball."

"It was benignant of a no-brainer pursuing this coaching staff." Trigueiro said. "I mean I thrust for them. they thrust for us."

Despite his continued occurrence connected the court, Newton is inactive waiting to bent his archetypal authorities tile banner.

For now, helium says he's focused connected the adjacent crippled and making definite his girls get a assistance astatine the adjacent level.

"I wasn't conscionable people gifted. I had to enactment truly hard to get wherever I got athletically," Newton said. "I deliberation I effort and instill that successful these young ladies."

As a erstwhile collegiate large antheral and planetary professional, Newton says he's determination for the COS acquisition and beyond.

"I consciousness similar it's my work to springiness backmost and stock immoderate of those things with these young radical truthful they tin pursuit their dreams arsenic well."

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