IRONWOOD --- As a freshman last year, Lori Wardynski was GCC's best player. Yet there were times, she admits, where she would frustrate her coach, where she didn't quite get the message he was trying to send.

Wardynski worked and worked and worked through the offseason, lifting weights, becoming faster and stronger, all while getting into the physical shape she needed to be in to lead the Lady Samsons' exhausting offense.

This fall, her coach Mark Movrich had an idea for her to take things a step further, a way for her to become a smarter player as well.

He hired her to coach.

Movrich, als...