Dan Druivenga collected over 450 wins in 25 years, including 211 in the past 10 years, at the helm of the Panorama Panthers girls basketball team. 

This June, he took over the West Central Valley program knowing there’d be extra challenges due to COVID-19.

“I took the job in the middle of June knowing that I probably wouldn’t get much practice time in the summer. But, it really got shut down, they shut us down for like three weeks in July due to an outbreak in the weight room, so they closed everything down. Didn’t get much practice time in the summer, we had to shut down again for 11 days. It was a tough, tough first year of introduction.”

West Central Valley opened the season with a pair of victories, but the team started to click in Druivenga’s system in mid-January, winning five straight games behind a stifling defense. He says he’s hoping for a return to normal and a full slate of practices to prepare for the next season behind rising seniors Madi Jaeger and Cathy Marlow.