Girls MS Basketball going to the Championship

Kaiya Ramos, Athletics Correspondent

December 11, 2024

JUPITER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL – The Girls Middle School Basketball team is headed to the championship game against The King’s Academy. After finishing their regular season 6-1 (the one loss being against The King’s Academy) the team made their way to the semi-final (getting a bye from being the one seed). They played against St. Mark’s Episcopal School and won the game moving on to the Championship.

Even before winning the St. Mark’s game the girls team was confident that they would make it to the championship and even confident that they would win that game. Players Natalie Simmons (7th), Gracelyn Paldin (7th), Tenley Dillon (7th), and Anayah Spence (7th) all agreed that Rosarian was their personal best played game. Gracelyn stated that, “I think even though we lost to King’s, it was still our best game as a team because we learned better communication and teamwork.”

Throughout their season the team has had some big leads and wins. The win with the biggest lead this season was their first game against Palm Beach Day Academy (40-10) and Trinity Christian School (48-14). And their closest win being the first time they played St. Mark’s Episcopal School (30-24).

Natalie, Gracelyn, Tenley, and Anayah all also described how the season went as a whole as “good” or “pretty good.” The girls on the team also gave some examples of some of their favorite moments this season. Anayah said “The bus rides.” Tenley and Gracelyn both said “Beating Benjamin,” while Natalie said “Beating the teams that beat us last year.”

When asked how she thinks this season has brought her closer to her teammates Gracelyn responded with, “It brought me closer to them because I learned communication, and yeah I learned how to communicate with my teammates better. Gracelyn also said that she’s “So sad!” that the season is coming to an end, and Tenley agreed saying, “Yeah because we don’t get to play anymore.”

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Kaiya Ramos, MS Yearbook Staff

Kaiya Ramos is a student journalist at Jupiter Christian School. Her graduation year is 2030 and she was born and raised in Jupiter,Fl. The 24-25 school year is, Ramos’ first year at JCS, but her older sister’s second. She is an athlete on the JV Volleyball team for the 2024 season and is excited to sign up for more activities as the year goes on. Ramos enjoys playing volleyball outside of school as well. She even plays for a team called Tribe a club in Deerfield Beach. After she graduates high school, Kaiya would like to pursue volleyball on a collegiate level. Ramos travels with her family to various locations but her favorite places that she’s been to are Hawaii and cooler places like Utah and Colorado. Kaiya doesn’t have any pets but she is definitely a dog person. Kaiya grew up watching college football with her family and was pretty much born into being a University of Miami fan. She went to many games when she was a child. Kaiya supports causes like, Live like Jake and others. Her favorite Bible verse is Psalm 46:5, “God is within her, she will not fall.” Kaiya’s life is guided by her faith in Christ, and she knows she will always have someone to count on and even when things don’t go her way, she can trust in God’s plan for her. An interesting fact about Kaiya is that she has 4 siblings ranging from almost 3 years old to 18, and she is the middle child .