With plenty of experience and talent returning for the Warriors, this season is shaping up to be a good one.

Westside returns three starters with seniors Trae and AJ Meeks and junior Anthony Bratton, as well as last year’s sixth man senior Sam Frankel.
The team has been doing plenty of lifting, running and shooting to prepare for the season, as well as getting games in during their fall league. The fall league wasn’t the best outing for the team, but head coach Brian Nemecek doesn’t take much stock in that league.

“We didn’t fare well in the fall league just because we were playing a lot of guys that were getting experience” Nemecek said. “I had a couple guys hurt, so the fall league is what it is, just getting guys playing.”

Although the fall season wasn’t great record wise, Trae saw great benefits for the team.

“I feel like the fall league was definitely a way to build team chemistry,” Trae said. “The football players obviously didn’t play but the people who weren’t in football, we got to know each other more and I think that helps us now.”

After the fall league, the team played an exhibition game against Ralston High School, which had the full roster of players ready to go. This game showed a little more of the team’s true colors.

“There were flashes of being pretty dynamic offensively,” Nemecek said. “This team has to sellout to be better defensively and a better rebounding team. If we do that, we’ll reach our goal of getting to Pinnacle Bank Arena.”

The team’s first game is Thursday Dec. 3 at 7:00 where they face Lincoln Southeast at Westside.