11-23-2025, 08:05 PM
Lots of reasons to love this game! It brought many moments of excitement and joy to Maples today. There wasn’t a great turnout, but there was great cheering and enthusiasm by those of us who attended the game.
We won handily, which may have surprised our coaching staff. Lehigh had won their conference last season, their coach had earned conference Coach of the Year, and they are considered to be a very scrappy team.
Three of their players have Bay Area connections, so it made sense that they had been invited to play at Maples. Coaches often schedule games in locales where family members and former fan can attend.
As the game developed, it was clear that Stanford had the edge. The other team was scrappy throughout the game—and even put up 19 point in the third quarter. But, in the end, we doubled their output of points—a real drubbing to be sure.
What stood out to me though, was the intensity that Stanford played the full game. The game was physical and Lehigh contested the play, but they wilted to Stanfords ball pressure, physical play, fast breaks, and three-point production (more than we seen in the past few games).
Game play was fairly well divided among the team, with no one playing more than 23 minutes and ten players getting 14 or more minutes in the game.
Everyone got in the game, and no one got better postgame victory pats and hugs than Carley Amborn, who played almost more minutes today, than she had played in the entire season, scored 10 points in seven minutes, still has not missed a shot as a Stanford player, and most importantly got rebounds and held her own on defense. This is a major development for our team!
This was a strong and necessary lead-up to the games we will be playing over the remainder of the pre-season. We will be facing strong opponents in the next few weeks, each game we play will test us and teach us. Today’s game showed the team what it could be if it went all out, played full speed, and shot instinctively! The team needs to know what it feel like to be in stride. The team and the coaches need to experience the feeling of playing to potential. Clearly, they know that the coming seasons bears many serious challenges and some bitter losses, but they need to have a strong image of themselves, with which to guide future successes.
They may have gained that today.
We won handily, which may have surprised our coaching staff. Lehigh had won their conference last season, their coach had earned conference Coach of the Year, and they are considered to be a very scrappy team.
Three of their players have Bay Area connections, so it made sense that they had been invited to play at Maples. Coaches often schedule games in locales where family members and former fan can attend.
As the game developed, it was clear that Stanford had the edge. The other team was scrappy throughout the game—and even put up 19 point in the third quarter. But, in the end, we doubled their output of points—a real drubbing to be sure.
What stood out to me though, was the intensity that Stanford played the full game. The game was physical and Lehigh contested the play, but they wilted to Stanfords ball pressure, physical play, fast breaks, and three-point production (more than we seen in the past few games).
Game play was fairly well divided among the team, with no one playing more than 23 minutes and ten players getting 14 or more minutes in the game.
Everyone got in the game, and no one got better postgame victory pats and hugs than Carley Amborn, who played almost more minutes today, than she had played in the entire season, scored 10 points in seven minutes, still has not missed a shot as a Stanford player, and most importantly got rebounds and held her own on defense. This is a major development for our team!
This was a strong and necessary lead-up to the games we will be playing over the remainder of the pre-season. We will be facing strong opponents in the next few weeks, each game we play will test us and teach us. Today’s game showed the team what it could be if it went all out, played full speed, and shot instinctively! The team needs to know what it feel like to be in stride. The team and the coaches need to experience the feeling of playing to potential. Clearly, they know that the coming seasons bears many serious challenges and some bitter losses, but they need to have a strong image of themselves, with which to guide future successes.
They may have gained that today.