Stars & Stripes

<!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"small"} --> <p class="has-small-font-size"><em>The featured image is of [player_tooltip player_id='177308' first='Madisyn' last='Bailey'] (2024) of Bedford North Lawrence High School.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Memorial Weekend is a time to remember those who have bravely and selflessly served our country, providing us with the freedoms we've come to enjoy. The long weekend also represents the end of the school year, the beginning of Summer, along with cookouts, fireworks, and many other fun festivities around the country. This is a themed article, so below is a group of five ladies who play at schools whose mascots involve stars and/or stripes (<em>Bedford North Lawrence and Western Boone are the Stars, South Adams is the Starfires which is a star made up of stripes, and Rochester, well, it's a bit of a stretch, but they are the Zebras...with stripes.</em>)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["177308"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"Madisyn is a very strong, physical lead guard who understands what she is/isn't and performs her role well. She is good with the basketball, gets it where it needs to go, and runs the offense like a traditional point guard. She is a solid North/South athlete, and if she can get downhill, it's tough to stop her momentum. If she can continue to develop her perimeter shot and make it more consistent, she could be a double threat offensively. Defensively, she is very instinctual and understands how to take angles, plus she rebounds her position well.","_player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"field_62aba51aecf34","player_evaluations_1_player":["572804"],"_player_evaluations_1_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_1_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_1_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_1_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_1_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_1_evaluation":"Macy had a really nice Junior season, leading the Starfires in both scoring (u003cemu003e15.2 ppgu003c/emu003e) and steals (u003cemu003e4.1 spgu003c/emu003e). She has a lot of length at her height, she is athletic in all directions, and she plays with a lot of versatility at both ends of the floor. Offensively, she can attack the basket and change directions off the bounce, but she has also started to show improved touch from the perimeter. 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