♥️ Final from Rupp Arena in Lexington.

Valiant effort by the young Jaguars. Congratulations on a fantastic season. ?

No secret Sacred Heart is the real deal and ZaKiyah Johnson is a studette.

Tonight's championship final between SHA and BE will be epic.

For the stat hounds ~

Congrats to SHA and great season by the Lady Jags. Solid defense in the loss. SHA is tough and Johnson is D1 special.

Cooper is formidable and loses no one to graduation.  I ‘expect’ Cooper to continue its success for years to come!

7 minutes ago, kyrecruiter said:

Cooper is formidable and loses no one to graduation.  I ‘expect’ Cooper to continue its success for years to come!

In fairness, they lose starter Jesse Palmer, and you probably wouldn't care for being referred to as "no one".

I'm so happy for Coach Holthaus and all of the amazing Lady Jags -- what a terrific run.  To survive a brutal 9th, and then advance to the State Semi's, what a huge accomplishment.  

The 9th will be great next year, and Cooper will be right at the top of it.  

3 hours ago, The Double Deuce said:

In fairness, they lose starter Jesse Palmer, and you probably wouldn't care for being referred to as "no one".

My bad… they will be top 5 in 2023 easily.

15 hours ago, The Double Deuce said:

In fairness, they lose starter Jesse Palmer, and you probably wouldn't care for being referred to as "no one".

I can’t speak for @kyrecruiter, but I’d go out on a limb that his comment was merely a blanket statement regarding how much Cooper gets to keep its core unit next season because they lose literally one senior from their roster to graduation. I doubt that there was any disrespect to Palmer intended. 

Not unusual at all each season that people look to the next season, and if the number of people graduating is significant, then people will say, “They lost a lot to graduation”, sorta like when St. Henry boys lost 10 players. No one was trying to disrespect the underclassmen on the Crusaders squad, just merely displaying a reality that at the beginning of the 2022 season, St. Henry would need to get the “next up” players some varsity experience. 

Not sure that kyrecruiter deserves to be ostracized for a comment that obviously was intended to express that the Lady Jags will have a lot of experience coming back next season.

My "adopted" Jags ended up being 100% legit.  As stated above, and mentioned a few times in these threads, SHA is on another level.  This ended being the The Sacred Heart Invitational.