 Under new direction this season the Pikeville Lady Panthers are looking to put some bounce back in their step with Christie Orham leading the way. A coach who has had 720 plus win seasons and a woman who is all about tradition and teaching. You know really it's about trying to bring back a tradition here with the girls basketball program. Obviously there's some really good players out here and they've had some really good coaches coming up to now and I'm just lucky to be that person I guess to come in and coach them right now. It's been here and you watch it's all we're doing is fundamentals of our main demand principles because I think they played a lot of a softer main demand before and they played a lot of maybe some zone and for these girls you know this is all new having me come in and want to deny every pass and want to get up and every passing lane and it's you know it's a huge adjustment. She's really focused on us making each other better and talking more which is something we liked last year and I think that's what hurt us most last year and she really brings energy to the game. We have a faster pace now and we're like really into it it's good. She likes to go a lot faster and get the floor quicker and we didn't really do that last year so that's a big difference for us. Expectations run high at Pikeville High School as the girls are looking to improve on last season and make a longer run when it comes tournament time. I hope to just be able to be anybody in the region it's gonna be hard because there's really good teams but that's my goal this year. Last year we got beat in the first region and we didn't win district this year. I want to win district and I want to win region and if not win region make a very good run a better run than we did last year and I want at the end of the season I want to be like that was the season I had my senior year and I don't want to miss anything. Really focused on trying to help young ladies mold into the young adults that they want to be and for me if at the end of the seasons the girls are not gonna look back and count their wins and losses they're gonna remember the trips on the bus the trips to Florida the times in the walker run and that next year when they're not playing for me they're gonna come and see me at Christmas because those are really big things to me. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB Sports, I'm Mikaela Colley.