The new season is fast approaching for Winfield-Mount Union girls’ basketball, and the Wolves are excited about making a leap from a four-win campaign last season.

WMU will return one of the top players in the Southeast Iowa Super Conference in junior Madisen Kellogg, who led the team with nearly 16 points, nine rebounds and two steals per game last season.

Another returner is a familiar face in senior Josie Nelson, who started six games and averaged better than three points and three rebounds per contest for the Winfield-Mount Union team that reached the Class 1A state tournament in 2023.

Guard Suttyn Schlee is also back, as are fellow sophomores Kaelyn Townsley and Lily Heckethorn. Wolves head coach Mendy McCreight tells KCII Sports those particular members of the pack are growing, not just in size and strength, but also in experience.

“I’ve seen a great deal of improvement throughout the whole year that we’ve worked with them,” McCreight says, “[like] just their knowledge of the basketball game in of itself. I had three freshmen step up and play that varsity role [and] I have to give it up for those girls. Sutty, Kaelyn and Lilly were going out there and doing what I asked the best [that] they could.”

WMU will play their first game of the new girls’ basketball season this coming Friday night at New London.