Every high school girl’s basketball team in Iowa is ironing out their concerns as the first week of the competition season begins next week for most squads. The West Central Valley Wildcats varsity girls basketball team has already had the luxury of multiple scrimmages at Atlantic High School over the weekend and another practice game Tuesday at Coon Rapids-Bayard High School. The Raccoon Valley Radio Network hosted Wildcat girls basketball coach Drew Stonewall on Monday’s Wahl McAtee Tire and Service Center Guthrie County PM Sports Page. He shared rebounding is one of the areas he feels his team can improve on after Saturday’s scrimmages in Atlantic. “We’re not a big team,” Stonewall said, “If we don’t have all five (players) rebounding on defense as a unit, then we’re going to give up offensive rebounds.”

The Wildcats return their top individual rebounder from last winter in junior Sydney Neal. Neal was the rebounding queen of the West Central Activities Conference in 2017-18, grabbing a league-best 185. The Wildcats lost their second-leading rebound, Grace Dupuy, to graduation in May. Dupuy ranked second in the WCAC with 183 rebounds. The West Central Valley Wildcats varsity girls basketball team starts their 2018-19 regular season schedule on Tuesday, traveling to Greenfield for a nonconference contest versus the Nodaway Valley Wolverines.