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The Frederick County Retired School s p o r t s news

Personnel Association Provides

Volunteers for Great Frederick Fair Mount St. Mar y’s Basketball Team

The Frederick Courtesy Photo Pumped for Upcoming Season
County Retired Blair Garrett
School Personnel
Association Photo by Blair Garrett
(FCRSPA) provided
fifty-five volunteers
for the 2018 Great
Frederick Fair.
In the top photo
(from left) are Patti
Hagemann, Sue
Slimmer, and Viola
Noffsinger. Viola
served five days,
including Kid’s
Day. In the bottom
photo section,
Kay and Debbie
Schroyer, who both
served three days,
confer with Kenny
Lawson. The Mount St. Mary’s Basketball Team makes every practice count, fine tuning its offensive and
FCRPSA is defensive strategies, ready for a successful season ahead.
open to all retirees
from the Frederick The road to the NCAA up a competitive first half before
County Public Tournament is paved by overcoming eventually falling to the Wildcats.
Schools. Retirees challenges, game after game. While the team’s tournament did
from other counties Whether it’s a heated rivalry game not have a fairytale ending, it did
but live in Frederick County are also eligible for membership. Interested or a shootout against a top team, prove that Mount St. Mary’s was not
individuals should contact 301-788-1117. each opponent must be approached out of place competing at the highest
with a game plan for success. level, and that competitive level is
With the 2018-19 NCAA Men’s something the Mount is going to
ESP Elower-Sicilia basketball season fast approaching, have to replicate this coming season
Productions the Mount St. Mary’s team has just a to make a deep run into the post-
season.
few days left to fine tune its offensive
Serving the of Dance & Music and defensive strategies before the The entire team, from the players
Community start of its climb back to the team’s to the coaches, know the season
Since 1970
Tap Ballet Jazz Hip Hop ultimate goal: competing for a begins even before the team’s first
national title. game. “What we bring [to practice]
Pre-School Creative “A big key to this season is going every day is going to be directly
Lyrical to be how we handle the tough times reflective of what happens on the
Acrobatics and the adversity,” said Head Coach court,” Engelstad said.
Musical Theater Dan Engelstad. “Every season, you’re Experts and league officials are
Contemporary
going to hit it, and with our schedule, not carrying high expectations this
Ages 3 to Adult we’re going to play some really tough season for Mount St. Mary’s, but
teams early, and how our team stays embracing the underdog storyline is
For More Information the course is going to be a really big something Engelstad and the team
301-271-7458 factor for us.” can get behind. “I like having a chip
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With a new head coach and a on our shoulder and something to
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team entirely made up of freshmen prove, and we’re trying to instill that
and sophomores, there is plenty with our young guys. We like that.”
of room for growth as the season Finding that rhythm early is going
progresses. But what this Mount St. to be key for the Mount as it enters
Mary’s squad may lack in experience, potentially the toughest stretch of the
they make up for in explosiveness, season. Engelstad’s group begins seven
tenacity, and a solid game plan. of its first eight games of the season
“We are young, but we have some on the road, but he is ecstatic to
really nice talent,” Engelstad said. return as a coach in his home state.
“We think we’re going to be able to “This was a dream opportunity
play fast, play up-tempo, get after for me, being from Maryland. This
you on the defensive end.” place has been so special for me.”
Just two seasons ago, the Mount The Bethesda native looks to start
made the leap that every Division I his team’s season strong, making
basketball team hopes for: playing his Mount St. Mary’s debut as head
for a national title. Mount St. coach in Raleigh, North Carolina,
Mary’s entered the dance as a 16 against NCAA tournament hopefuls,
seed and faced off against No. 1 North Carolina State University on
seeded, Villanova University, keeping November 6.