 If you're a fan of the Brainerd Girls basketball team, you can expect to see some new faces on the court this year. Brainerd's had back to back 17 wins seasons, but now they have to start from scratch as they have almost a completely new roster. Sports reporter Anthony Scott has more. Weaknesses are experience. Three, that's the number of returning players for the Brainerd High School Girls basketball team. After graduating eight seniors from last year's squad, the Warriors' first priority was to integrate their new teammates. Yeah, they are learning pretty well. It is a bit different since last year. We had so many returning in this year. It's just a lot like really new, but it has been going pretty well. The new team has begun to click and that can be attributed to great leadership. Our captains have done a great job in our leadership council of pulling the kids together and making sure everyone's involved and everyone's having fun. Well, we're really just now starting to bond, so it's been interesting, but we're getting there. If the Warriors want to continue their winning ways, Coach Nelson says the captains have to take another step forward. It's been my goal for a while to be a leader of this team. I do really want to make the program better, so pushing the younger girls is what I have to do. Along with playing hard and giving 100%, one of the Warriors' goals this year is to beat Moorhead and Alexandria. Because those teams have always been a struggle. We haven't beat Moorhead in a while and Alex has always been one of our biggest competitors. Brainer took a lot of people by surprise last season, hosting a game in the sectional tournament, and now they don't want to take a step back. We've been surprised. You know, we thought coming in, it might be a rebuilding year, but the kids have been doing a great job. We've had a scrimmage already that we performed pretty well in, so we're hoping that, you know, we're hoping it's not too much of a rebuilding year that we can kind of go in and compete. The basketball season has arrived and it's only a matter of time until we find out if this young Warriors squad is ready for the challenges that lie ahead. Reporting from Brainer, Anthony Scott, Lakeland News.