The Navy women’s basketball team rode a river of happy screams to the locker room, making sure they wrote “Congrats on your first win, coach” before first-year coach Tim Taylor returned. When he did, they dumped water on him, celebrating, finally, the first win of the 2020-21 season.
Navy struggled with injury and illness all season, including a two-week quarantine that wiped out the first four games of its Patriot League slate. Then, key senior Sophie Gatzounas missed Saturday’s game for undisclosed reasons.
On Sunday, the Midshipmen demonstrated what it looks like when all the right pieces are back together to finally earn its first victory of the season, 70-67 over American, splitting the two-day doubleheader with the Eagles in Navy’s first weekend at home this season.