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Multiple Teams · Lady Poets Spring Training

The Lady Poets Basketball Team will have Spring Training March 27 – April 7 from 4pm – 6pm Monday-Thursday. For more information please contact Head Coach Courtney Ward @ 334.294.3598  

Multiple Teams · Lanier girls 1 win from regional title

DOTHAN — Alexis Hall based her decision more on who her coach would be rather than her new school’s girls basketball reputation. The sordid recent history of the Sidney Lanier Poets — and much-worse adjectives would be accurate, too — didn’t sway Hall when faced with the enthusiasm and determination of new coach Courtney Ward. Two years

Multiple Teams · For Lanier’s Brown, life a crowded house

Shanya Brown, at some point, just has to hope for silence. She’s a Sidney Lanier senior and a starter on the girls basketball team, who juggles a part-time job with a hectic family life. Outside of school, she’s probably at practice or playing in a game — like Tuesday’s Class 6A South Regional final against

Multiple Teams · Sidney Lanier girls press on to regional

Sidney Lanier had to fight off nervousness and excitement as it played Dothan in Monday’s Class 6A subregional at Walker-Joiner Gymnasium. The Poets ran the Tigers out of the playoffs. Jamiya Smith scored 10 of her 18 points in the second half as Lanier pulled away for a 71-37 win to advance to the Class

Multiple Teams · Lanier Girls celebrates first area title since 2010

Behind Lex Hall’s 12 points, the Lady poets won the Class 6A, Area 4 Championship Thursday, its first area title since 2010, with a 53-42 home victory over Carver High School. Tierra Davis and Bernicia Ballard added 11 points each for the Poets (15-9), who will host a subregion game, likey on Monday.

Multiple Teams · Ward leads Sidney Lanier turnaround

Sidney Lanier girls basketball coach Courtney Ward serves her community as a head coach, but is also a deputy with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department. Ward graduated from the Montgomery Police Academy in 2014 and is currently a school resource officer at Pike Road School during the day. Ward said she gets plenty of support