Kodiaks cousins hoping to continue dominant play in 2nd half of ACAC season
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Barwegen says she could have never predicted how her cousin would burst into the ACAC.
This season marks a passing of the torch of sorts for the Lethbridge College Kodiaks women’s basketball team.
Kirsten Barwegen is the grizzled veteran of the team — one of just two fourth-year players on the roster — showing the young guns the ropes in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC).
“We have eight rookies, and they didn’t have a Grade 12 year, so we’re really looking at Grade 11 experience,” said Kodiaks head coach Ken McMurray.
“So for Kirsten to be there — to be that leader, to talk them through things — has been excellent.”
For Barwegen, this season has been about embracing that leadership role.
“Honestly, I’ve forgotten that they’re first years,” she laughed. “They’re not playing like that, and I definitely hold them to a level of like, ‘I don’t care that you missed your Grade 12 year.'”
The Kodiaks went 5-1 during the first semester of their season, rattling off four-straight wins heading into the winter break.
Barwegen has been an undeniable factor for the Kodiaks through six games, averaging more than 17 points-per-game and 10 rebounds — both good for top five in the conference — but she’s the first to point to the team’s scoring leader: her younger cousin Courtney Deemter.
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