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Rossview High School Lady Hawks’ sisters enjoying time together and winning basketball games

Clarksville Sports NetworkClarksville, TN – Rossview High School’s Kylie and Janie White aren’t first pair of sisters to play on the same basketball team and certainly won’t be the last. But they are enjoying their time together and especially since the Lady Hawks are enjoying a great start to the season with the team’s 9-0 start. Rossview got to 9-0 with its 56-48 victory over Station Camp at home on Friday night.

Kylie, a senior, is headed to play basketball at Trevecca next year.

“I love it because we know what each other does,” Kylie said. “We can read each other so well and it’s just great.”

Janie, a sophomore, is being recruited by Austin Peay, UT Martin and others.

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“It’s fun,” Janie said. “It’s good because coming into it you’re not blind. You have somebody who you’re familiar with and you know what each other is doing. We can read each other and when we’re at home we can talk about things, and sort of conspire together to help figure out what the team needs to do.”

In their first year together, they helped Rossview earn its first winning season in girls basketball. The Lady Hawks finished in second place in District 10-AAA last year to Clarksville High. Rossview advanced to the Region 5-AAA Tournament, where it lost to Wilson Central in the first round.This year’s 9-0 start is an accomplishment Kylie is proud of.

“It’s awesome,” she said. “We just want to go as far as we can. Last year, we got knocked out in region and this year we want to go further than that.”

Rossview's Kylie and Janie White
Rossview's Janie (14, L) and Kylie White (12, R) bracket a Station Camp defender as a teammate looks on in the Lady Hawks' win on Friday night.

Janie admitted it took her a little time to get used to playing with her big sister and especially since it was just her freshman year.

“Last year, it was an adjustment, because we’ve only played together in middle school one year and that was when I was in sixth grade,” Janie said. “So it was different. But I think we’re growing into it. We’re using it more as an asset for the team.”

And while they are enjoying the time together, they know it will end when Kylie graduates and moves onto Trevecca. That’s when Janie will take over as one of the team’s leaders.

“Right now she (Kylie) is the leader on the team so I’m going to have to step up next year,” Janie said. “I’m going to have to lean how to be more vocal and get everybody into it like she does this year.”

Kylie says she plays the role of the big sister, because she is. But she says she not overbearing and that they rely on each other to keep each other motivated.

“I do have that role, but we’re really good at if one person is down the other will pick the other up,” Kylie said. “We’re really good at supporting each other.”

Rossview will be playing in the Riverdale Tournament this week and the FRA Christmas Tournament next week before getting back into District 10-AAA play at Henry County on January 3rd. They both know they have a tough task in front of them to try to win the school’s first ever district championship in girls basketball and especially because they are in the same district with two-time state tournament qualifier Clarksville High School. The two teams meet twice on January 10th at Clarksville and the last game of the season on February 10th at Rossview.

“Now we know how to play to win each game,” Kylie said. “We’re going for the championship all the way. CHS has stood in our way the whole time, but realistically we can beat them. That’s our goal, then we want to go into region and hopefully go to state.”

Said Janie: “It’s obviously a big challenge, but we’re definitely up for it. We’re excited about playing CHS. We know we can be competitive with them and potentially win. Just having us together just helps us even more. We know playing CHS is like playing other teams we’ll play in regions and if we go to state. So it’s going to prepare us even more.”

James D. Horne
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James D. Horne began his writing career at the Carrollton Missouri Democrat in 1995, and was the assistant sports editor/writer for the Hammond Louisiana Daily Star for two years.  In 1998, Horne became the Missouri Basketball beat writer for the Columbia Daily Tribune. He joined The Leaf-Chronicle in Oct. 2003 as the lead prep writer and became the Austin Peay beat writer in March of 2005. During his career he won a state association sports writing award at the Daily Star and two while at the Leaf-Chronicle. Originally from Tampa, Florida, Horne earned his B.A in communications from Central Methodist University in Fayette Missouri.
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