North Forsyth’s Lady Raiders basketball team is preparing for the best season yet. In the past two years, North Forsyth was undefeated, leading the region and making the final four top teams in the state. This year, the coaches plan to be just as successful.
“I think everybody plays an important role,” says Brad Kudlas, head coach of the Varsity girls’ basketball team. He has high expectations for Gabbie Gliatta, a senior who has been on his team all four years of her high school career, as well as Emerson Carnes and Kendall Arnett, sophomores, who were also noted as the most improved: “They really stepped up.”
“We have a standard that we’ve set here at North of what we want to accomplish, and the girls are learning that it takes a lot of hard work to keep that standard up. We’re trying to instill in them how hard you have to work to meet that standard,” says Kudlas.
His main goal, however, is to make sure the girls can balance working hard and growing as a team with having fun. He commented that “it’s nice having kids that want to be there. Teaching them what it’s like to work hard, that you can have fun doing so, and watching them. It’s really cool seeing them get that success and watching them grow.” He’s most interested in seeing the growth as a team, and he is confident that the younger girls can fill the bigger roles the graduated seniors left them.
“A lot of people don’t think that you can work hard and have fun,” says Kudlas. But the girls’ team is learning to do just that, on and off the court.
Kudlas reveals that “the not-so-secret formula is that the girls play for each other and play as one. That’s how we’ve gotten our success in the past.” He hopes that the team can keep up that record of success going into the 2025 season.
“We’ve been averaging almost 60 plus points a game. If we can keep that up, then we’re going to be in great shape,” says Kudlas.
The first game of the season will be at Creekview High School on Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $9 and are available now!
