The Sigourney Savages are set to get a new girls’ basketball season started with a new head coach that knows a thing or two about winning games for the Black and Gold.

Former Sigourney star Kaylee Weber, one of the program’s leading scorers and rebounders in her playing career from 2017 to 2021, takes over her alma mater looking to maintain last year’s successful campaign that yielded a 19-5 record and an East division championship in the South Iowa Cedar League.

While the Savages do need to replace leading scorer Carly Goodwin among other starters, forward Josephine Moore is back after leading the team in rebounding and averaging better than 10 points and eight-and-a-half rebounds per game last season.

Fellow seniors Ava Fisch and McKinley Chittick also return and will be leaders of this season’s squad. Weber tells KCII Sports everyone on the roster, new and old, has been putting in a lot of work to be prepared for what’s ahead.

“We did a lot of open gyms this summer,” Weber says. “I expect them to be in the gym and getting some shots up. They were very active, so that’s really all I can ask out of them.”

Sigourney held a scrimmage Saturday against Hillcrest Academy and will play their first game of the new girls’ basketball season Tuesday against Albia.