“I’ve literally wanted to do it since I was five years old and here I am I’m living my dream right now,” Absher said. You can tell she takes pride in wearing this uniform.
“I love Happy Valley it’s my home it really is I couldn’t have picked a better place to go I love it,” Absher said. It’s that drive and dedication that’s made her the player she is today. “It definitely paid off I feel like I got so much stronger and just being in the gym and working on my fundamentals I feel like it helped me so much,” Absher said. “I feel like going into my junior season my team really needed me to be there and be in the weight room as much as possible and get stronger so it was a hard choice but I decided to give it up,” Absher said.įortunately for the Lady Warriors, that decision paid off, as she averaged over 10 points, six rebounds and three steals per game last year. She also ran cross country in the fall of her freshman and sophomore years, but she made the difficult decision to give it up, to focus on basketball. “I love softball my best friends are all on the softball team I enjoy it so much nothing better,” Absher said. Then in the spring, she serves the same role on the Happy Valley softball team. “We look to her for that leadership and that guidance and that’s Olivia in a nutshell, she’s a leader, you look that up in the dictionary her name and her picture’s there,” Hill said. “I think my biggest role is to lead I think that’s kinda always been my role and it carries into my senior year and I think of course to play defense that’s what I do and to score a little bit more this year I think that’s what I need to do to help my team succeed,” Absher said. “Olivia is a competitor her effort has never ever been in question she gives it everything she’s got every moment she’s on the floor and she demands that out of her teammates she’s a natural leader,” Hill said.Ībsher is a senior, and a central piece of this Lady Warriors team. “I love it, I love how intense he makes practices feel it’s like no other there are days I come to the gym he’s here and we’re getting better every single day,” Absher said. Most of the girls on this team played for Hill at Happy Valley Middle School. “Just trying to get the program back to where it needs to be you know we’re excited to get at it this is a group that actually played for me at the middle school so I know this group and I’m enthusiastic excited ready to go,” Hill said. Winter sports have arrived! A new era starts next week for the Happy Valley girls basketball team, with new head coach Dana Hill.
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