Good Sports: Fresno Pacific women's basketball off to best start in program history

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- If you hap to drawback a glimpse of a Fresno Pacific women's hoops practice, you can't assistance but permission successful a bully mood.

"We've talked astir a batch of things that we truly hadn't talked to different teams successful the past, adjacent erstwhile we had palmy teams," says caput manager Tim Beauregard.

For Coach Beauregard, the connection to his Sunbirds has taken connected a much serious, albeit amusive tone.

At 16-5 connected the season, FPU is disconnected to its champion commencement successful years, ranked 5th successful the NCAA DII - its highest ranking ever.

"We're truly mature with this group, truthful there's an knowing that we tin person those conversations," Beauregard season.

With 10 upperclassmen, acquisition has turned into strength.

"Everyone's connected the aforesaid page, everyone developed implicit summertime and everyone's wholly bought in," Says Felicia Dourva.

There are besides 11 Central Valley locals, similar Kerman's Bre Hurt -- wearing Fresno crossed their thorax is personal.

Sitting successful 2nd spot successful the PacWest Conference, Coach Beauregard says the Sunbirds are yet successful the driver's spot to marque the NCAA Division II tourney successful March.

It's a bid that's each but guaranteed if they triumph the league tournament, thing that's ne'er been done before.

"We're hungry," Beauregard said. "I deliberation it's who we are."

Despite their appetite, you won't perceive manager talking astir x's and o's.

"The biggest happening we speech astir with our squad is conscionable being artists," helium said. "We don't privation everybody connected tracks. We privation them to beryllium capable to beryllium escaped successful their thought process."

That transportation each goes backmost to a squad saying.

"I deliberation the biggest happening for america is 'Dream Chasers Only' is benignant of our motto," Beauregard said.

It's a taxable the players instrumentality to heart.

"This is simply a spot wherever you tin pursuit that, and helium encourages america to beryllium the champion mentation of ourselves each day," Dourva said.

"This is simply a squad that, I deliberation we tin bash thing if we truly travel unneurotic and enactment our heads to it," Hurt said.

But erstwhile it comes to a league title run, you won't spot Coach Beauregard funny successful the hardware.

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