EHS Lady Blue Devil Basketball

EHS 2023-2024 Lady Blue Devils Basketball Banquet.

We would like to congratulate Carlee, Vanessa and Kylee for being selected to the Class 4A area 11 All Tournament Team!

We would like to co granulate Carlee and Kylee for being selected to the Class 4A Area 11 All Area Team!

Last night did not go as we had planned. But our kids still battled and played hard! We would like to congratulate Carlee Barksdale, Vanessa Roden, and Kylee Roden for being named to the Class 4A Area 11 All Tournament Team. For the third year in a row we have secured our spot in the state tournament field of 32. Excited for the opportunity and ready to get back to work!

What a gritty group of kids! This picture says a lot to me, you may not can make everyone out but this is our team watching the other area semifinal game after we won our game. They refuse to quit and have EARNED the right to play for the Area Championship! Thank you to all the parents sitting with your kids and supporting them and our program! We ask a lot out of our kids but I truly believe you can learn how to outwork everyone around you. The game of basketball has changed a lot over the years but you can still count on defense winning championships!

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Come out tonight and support the Lady Blue Devils
Varsity girls begins at 5:30
Etowah VS. Ashville

We hope to see you at our BLUE DEVIL CLASSIC Dec 27th, 28th and 29th. We have 12 teams from Etowah, Marshall, Cherokee, Calhoun, Blount, St. Clair, Talladega, and Jefferson Counties. We are expecting some of the best girls basketball you can find in this area!

We had a great time teaching basketball skills at the 21st Century Program at Attalla Elementary School yesterday!

Looking forward to our first home game of the season tonight at 6pm vs Leeds High School. We would love to see you all there supporting these kids, they have worked extremely hard and we are excited about what’s happening in our program!

We have about 5 days left for you to buy your chance at winning a BBQ dinner from Bootsie’s in Attalla. The proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards helping our basketball team with all the expenses that we have during the year (officials, travel, meals, uniforms, etc.). If you would like to buy a chance please see a girls basketball player or a coach to purchase. We will sale tickets through halftime of the football game with Southside and the winner will be announced (you do NOT have to be present to win). Thank you to everyone that purchases a ticket and supports our program. Special thanks to the great folks at Bootsie’s for ALWAYS supporting us!

We will have our parent meeting Tuesday, Sept. 26th at 5:30 pm in the high school lunchroom. Every Varsity and JV player needs to have a parent or guardian in attendance. Our Jr High parent meeting will be announced soon! Looking forward to our season! T-Minus 43 days until tip off!

We would like to congratulate all of these young ladies on being voted by their classmates as representatives in this years EHS Homecoming Court. These ladies all represent our program and school in a great way! Now let The countdown begin … T Minus 52 days until tip off!

One of the true good guys in the game! Coach Graves is a great representative of Etowah High School and we are very proud of his accomplishments!

Blue Devil Basketball is selling doughnut vouchers and BOGO cards! Let us know if you want some!

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 Congratulations to the class of 2023 … we are extremely proud of you and all of your accomplishments! You have left your mark on not only on our program but also on our school and our community! Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to our program! We love you all …
Coach Ryan McCoy

2022-2023 EHS Lady Devil Basketball Banquet

We would like to take a minute to congratulate 3 of our seniors on finishing their high school career in the top 10% of their graduating class. Riley, Jaleigh, and LA we couldn’t be more proud of you! Athletics and athletic achievements are important but there is nothing more important than a students academics (they are called student athletes for a reason). These three ladies truly exemplify what it means to be a student athlete and are great representatives of our program!

We are in our last week of our strawberry sale. The money raised will be used to help us continue to improve our girls basketball program! See any girls basketball player or contact Coach McCoy at 256-490-9137. Thank you for your support of our program!

Well this is not the post that I envisioned myself making this summer. From the time we began our summer program it was our goal to win an area championship. Unfortunately, sometimes you don’t reach every goal you set. It is my hope that this makes all of our underclassmen work harder during the off-season to reach that goal next year.
Just because we didn’t reach our main goal doesn’t mean this season wasn’t a success. We saw some new records set, (we are tied for second all time in Alabama history for 3 point percentage in a game, 51.7 % . We added a new player to the 1,000 point club (Congratulations Jaleigh!). We made the sub regional round of the state tournament back to back years. I couldn’t be more proud of a group of kids than I am of this team! They worked as hard as they ever have and because of that hard work we were able to improve as a team and as individuals.
I am not sure that people understand what a GRIND basketball season is, summer workouts and play dates, 4th block workouts, film after workouts, 2 hour practices, practice and games 5 and sometimes 6 days a week, holiday (Thanksgiving and Christmas) tournaments and practice. It takes a special kind of young person to commit their self to being there every day because they know they want to do everything in their power to not let their teammates down! I am lucky that our team is full of those kind of kids!
I want to say thank you to my players for all of their hard work and dedication to our program! Without them and their buy in to a vision of hard work will always give us a chance, we wouldn’t be anywhere close to turning this program around (we have became a FAMILY).
I would like to thank my wife Lacqusta, and kids (Jackson and Harper) for always supporting me! I am not the easiest person to be married to on a good day. During basketball season I am pretty much unbearable and Lacqusta handles every situation like the rock star she is! Jackson and Harper are becoming gym rats and can always make me smile even when I can’t find much to smile about!
I want to thank my coaches (Katie Baker, Morgan Bogle, Britney Palmore, Chris Devine and Kevin Horton). Without them nothing we have done would be possible. One of the things I give myself credit for in what we have done with this program is putting good coaches, and even better people around our young ladies!
I want to thank each and every parent that has a player in our program. You have allowed your daughters to be coached hard and pushed to not only be better players, but most importantly to be better students and better people! It is my hope that we are partnering with you to mold these ladies into responsible, hard working adults.
Lastly, I want to thank this years seniors (LA, Jaleigh, Riley and Damilah). This post has been extremely too long and I could type another book talking about these four young ladies. To sum it up as quickly as possible, these four young ladies are full of GRIT and determination and absolutely REFUSED to quit even when it would have been a whole lot easier on them (I would like to take a little credit for that GRIT but I am pretty sure that was given to them by God and great parents). Ladies, we break it down to FAMILY every day and now you will forever be a part of my family, if you ever need me all you have to do is call me! THANK YOU!!
I know there are hundreds of people that I have not thanked! If you came and cheered us on, helped in the concession stand, took up tickets, taped an ankle (DJ), drove a bus, or just said a prayer for us THANK YOU!! There simply aren’t enough words or enough time to thank everyone properly! Without all of these unmentioned people basketball season wouldn’t be possible!
As always … GO BIG BLUE!
- Ryan

Hope to see you there!

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Congratulations to our ladies that made the All Area Tournament Team!

Congratulations to our ladies that made the All Area Team!

Not the outcome we wanted tonight, but we couldn’t be more proud of the effort and grit this team showed tonight!
4A Area 11 Runner -Up

Area Championship tonight at Oneonta!
Come out and support your Lady Devils!

We had a big area tournament win against Hanceville tonight 52-50 earning our spot in the area Championship game Thursday night at 7!

This win also secures our spot in the field of 32 for the state tournament for the second year in a row!

Jaleigh Devine led the team with 19, LA Wood added 13 and Chloe Kelley topped the night off with 7!