Women’s Basketball Team Tests Waters, Makes Splash

From Florida College:

The new women’s club basketball team has come out on top in two of its first three games of the 2012 season.

The newest team of Lady Falcons is currently 2:1, after beating the Trinity Baptist College Lady Eagles Jan. 12, and Clearwater Christian on Tuesday.

Basketball carries a long and proud tradition at Florida College. As the college’s first sport, was an important unifying factor for the student body, and helped develop Florida College’s legendary floor-stomping, bleacher-rattling school spirit.

The new women’s club team is Florida College’s seventh collegiate sport—and the club level status allows an institution to “test the waters,” said Athletics Director Kenny Moorer.

“Adding a women's sport was an easy call,” he said.

The team will play several games throughout the spring season in an effort to determine whether the sport will be added to the college’s full-time roster in the future.

The Lady Falcons will host Pensacola Christian Thursday at 5 p.m. in Conn Gymnasium, followed by a faceoff between the Florida College men’s basketball team and Warner University at 7:30 p.m.