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Girls Hoops Goes Retro For Game Against Anderson

Posted on: January 14, 2017
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During the 2012-13 school year, five of the six seniors on this year’s Milford High School girls basketball team were members of a highly-successful eighth grade squad that went a perfect 16-0 and captured the Eastern Cincinnati Conference Championship. There coach that year? Phil Sheldon. Now fast-forward to January 14, 2017 and the quintet and their teammates were back on the court taking on ECC rival Anderson, led by a familiar face in…head coach Phil Sheldon. And it wasn’t just any game, it was a special throwback game between the two schools.

 

The brainchild of Milford head coach Kristi McKenney, the Eagles broke out the same jerseys the five seniors had worn as eighth graders for Sheldon for the second match-up between the schools this season. The Eagles also took time to say thank you to their former coach during a brief pre-game recognition.

 

“Phil has done so much for the Milford program and this group of seniors, we wanted to show him our appreciation,” McKenney said. “I approached the girls with this idea before Christmas Break and after they tried the old uniforms on, they were all for it.”

 

The idea started earlier this school year when McKenney purchased a new set of uniforms for her current crop of eighth-graders and then came across a tub holding the “retro” unis. From there, Retro Day was born.

 

For Sheldon, who in addition to his duties as the Redskins’ head coach is also Milford’s Head Boys Golf Coach, the turn back the clock day was also about family. One of the six Milford seniors is his niece Ashli, who not only drew a starting line-up nod and scored eight points, she also sang the National Anthem pre-game. The Redskins’ junior varsity coach is also familiar as Sheldon’s brother Gary, who is Ashli’s father, runs that squad.

 

By game’s end, Ashli Sheldon, along with her former eighth-grade teammates Tori Gilman, Olivia Redrow, Katelyn Rheude and Hannah Thierauf had gotten the best of their former coach by a 47-39 score. The sixth member of this year’s Senior Class, Hayden White, who supported her future prep teammates from the stands during their eighth grade days, was also influenced by Sheldon to attend Milford after attending parochial schools in junior high.

 

With the end of their senior season looming and graduation just a few months away, for one day the Milford Senior Class got to turn back the clock to the memory of a perfect season with their all too familiar head coach.

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