Andrews Lady Yellowjackets working for the future

Neill Kirkpatrick • February 14, 2025

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By Neill Kirkpatrick

Special to the HSSR

Andrews – The Andrews girls basketball program has been a work in progress in Head Coach Tevin Wallace first two years and while the wins have been hard to come the Lady Yellowjackets are becoming more competitive through hard work and learning the system coach Wallace is implementing.

“My expectations coming into this year were to be competitive, learn how to play together as a team, and build comradery amongst each other. We are a very young team with only 1 senior this year so we have some talent that we can build on for the next 2 to 5 years,” coach Wallace said.

Coach continued, “Even though this year we did not win like we thought we could, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Our girls are ready for the off season so they can work on not just individual games but to work together as a team. I like where we are headed and if we continue to work hard we will get there.”

The Lady Yellowjackets start all underclassmen in junior Briana Walker, sophomores Camaria Gibson and Chloe Skipper and freshmen Railey Gibson and Makayla Singleton. Gibson is the team’s point guard and leads the team in scoring (12.4), rebounds (5.6) and steals (2.7). She is the engine and continues to get better each day.

Singleton has made a big impact in her first year on the varsity. She is second in scoring at 5.5 ppg. and in steals at 2.6 per game while fellow freshman Gibson has also shown her all-around game.

The team’s lone senior Shanya Coachman has played solid in the paint and is second on the team in rebounding, grabbing over four boards a game.

Junior Jade Wallace, sophomores Tyler George and Armani Williams, freshman Ana Kate Lambert, eighth grader Elisa Dunmore and seventh grader Nyla Brown 7^th round out the Lady Yellowjackets roster. Wallace has been solid off the bench.

“The biggest area my team has improved on since the start of the year is confidence in their own play. I am starting two freshmen and at the beginning of the season it showed. The speed on the varsity level and the tough team that we played at the beginning of the year such as Berkeley, Kingstree, and Carvers Bay just to name a few really tested them. They responded by working harder in practice and getting better. We are headed in the right direction,” said coach Wallace.

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