{"id":828,"date":"2016-12-09T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=828"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:58:54","slug":"coach-has-high-hopes-for-yellowjackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/coach-has-high-hopes-for-yellowjackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach has high hopes for Yellowjackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Zachary Deppa <\/b><br>\nSports Editor<br>\nzachary.deppa<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_829\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"wp-image-829\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8400b-300x200.gif\" alt=\"RCTC women's basketball team during a game\" width=\"437\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8400b-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8400b-768x512.gif 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8400b-1024x683.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCTC freshman guard Nautika Kotero (No. 22) vies for a jump ball against Hibbing Community College\u2019s Diana Clement (No. 2) on Dec. 6. The Yellowjackets have a 6-5 won-lost record at semester break. Their next games are at the Anoka Ramsey Tournament on Friday, Jan. 6, against the North Dakota State College of Science and on Saturday, Jan. 7, against Hibbing Community College. (Echo Photo by Michaela Twitchell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Steve Hucke is the head coach for the woman\u2019s basketball team. He has been coaching for RCTC for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>This year he believes the woman\u2019s basketball team will have a similar playing style to the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel we have a great chance to win the Southern Division, battle for Region championship and get into national tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hucke\u2019s goals are to win the division, region, and advance onto the national tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The style of play the team has this year is quick-paced, fast-break team with the ability to hit outside shots. The prominent players of the team this year are Nathalie Ratliff, Jenna Svoboda, Reed Klunder and Nautika Kotero.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge for the team this year is the rebounding, free throw shooting, and the transition and development of the freshmen. With Hucke\u2019s coaching philosophy of playing hard, focusing, controlling what they can, and having fun, he believes that they will easily overcome these challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zachary Deppa Sports Editor zachary.deppa Steve Hucke is the head coach for the woman\u2019s basketball team. He has been coaching for RCTC for 15 years. This year he believes the woman\u2019s basketball team will have a similar playing style to the last few years. \u201cI feel we have a great chance to win the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}