On Saturday, February 8, 2025, the Chesterton High School Girls basketball team fought their final battle against the Valparaiso Vikings on Trojan grounds, marking the end to another successful season. The 2024-2025 basketball season lived up to hopes and expectations, meeting the high standards they set for themselves in years past and bringing home almost twice as many wins than losses. Although they fell a hair short to those pesky Vikings during the sectional championship, the achievements of one of CHS’s biggest winners could not possibly be erased.
What better way to start off the season than taking down our Trojan counterparts from Highland High School? The team launched the season by asserting themselves the superior Trojans of the greater Duneland area, doing so on our lucky home courts. Kenedi Bradley, Liv Roach, and Isabelle Conners carried the team to victory that fateful November night, dangling 35 points over the visiting Trojans. Two days later, they were overtaken by the Northridge Raiders, but successfully kept the score closer than the Highland Trojans could with our Trojans. After that, the girls began a four game winning streak that conquered the Munster Mustangs, the Mishawaka Cavemen, the Plymouth Pilgrims, and the team from South Central High School. Freshman Lindsi McGuffey made her debut as the youngest talent starting on the varsity team, piling up over sixteen points over those four games. The 14 year old rising star played with unwavering fervor alongside some of the toughest players in the state and established herself a necessary asset to the team very early in her basketball career. The team’s winning streak was broken by the Lake Central Indians and the 22 points they scored on the Trojans, but they quickly reasserted their dominance after with a 56-21 point win against the Michigan City Wolves.
The rest of the season followed in a similar fashion, alternating between winning streaks and the occasional loss. Overall, the team brought home the heads of 15 teams, and only 9 of their opponents were able to cream Cheesetown. Although the tangible success of the team is immensely impressive, the Trojan girls are prided in so much more than trophies and titles. According to junior and one of the reigning MVPs, Kenedi Bradley, their relationship as a team on and off the court is what’s really worth bragging about.
“With us, our team chemistry got really, really good, and we were all best friends,” says Bradley when asked what she was most proud of over the season (besides beating the highly competitive Merrillville Pirates towards the end of the season).
That team chemistry grew over the season alongside the skill, gameplay, and zeal of the team. During the season spanning October to February, the Trojans overtook DAC titans like the Crown Point Bulldogs, the Munster Mustangs, and of course the Merrillville Pirates. The improvements made from the beginning to the end of the season were displayed at high visibility as the Trojan fight became stronger and stronger, as did the team comradery. Even the unfortunate loss to the Vikings at the end of the season could not take the winning spirit away from the players, given the efforts put in by every player in every aspect of the game.
“The last two games were probably the best games we’ve ever played,” says Bradley, insinuating the successes against the Vikings and other teams that could not be measured by point totals.
And with that comes the conclusion to the 2024-2025 girls basketball season, another admirable one for the books. The parting of game season is such sweet sorrow for the Trojans and their loyal fans, but truthfully, the grind does not stop. The team plans for the 2025-2026 season to be everything this season was, and more, and soon enough they’ll be back on the court in spirits and efforts that will further garnish the name they have helped us earn respect for: Chesterton Trojans.
