Put your cap on, lace up your tennis shoes, and put on your singlet. This month, boys‘ and girls‘ basketball, swimming, and wrestling will start their season condition-ing. So, bust out your coats, boots, and scarves: It’s time for winter sports season! The most exciting part of this new sea-son are the new coaches. Four year swim team coach, Ms. Maria Sosko, will be turn-ing the job over to her old high school coach, Mike Kozlina. A Pitt alumnus, Coach Kozlina has been swimming competitively since he was eight years old and has been ever since un-til he started coaching. He hopes to change things up this year when it comes to prac-tices by incorporating more dry land exer-cises. He hopes the season ―goes well, eve-ryone has fun, and a lot of athletes will be getting best times.‖ The boys‘ basketball team also has a new coach this season, Jon Lapic. A 1999 Freedom graduate, Coach Lapic played basketball for Freedom and led the team to the playoffs for the first time in ten years. After graduating, he played for Penn State Beaver for two years, where he was a team captain and led the team to playoffs. Fol-lowing college, Lapic coached the 8 th grade basketball team at Beaver Falls, and then became the assistant coach here at Free-dom, which he held for two years before finally becoming head coach. His overall goal for the season is to make it to play-offs. The girls‘ basketball team started con-ditioning very early in October. The team hopes for a winning season this year. ―This season will be better than last year; I think we‘re going to win a few games,‖ said Brittany Mavrich, sophomore. The team sees new support in the way of new fresh-men joining the team, and in all the team just hopes to have a fun season with no problems. The wrestling team has also started conditioning this year, and plan to have their first match in December. With Zeke Stroupe as the captain, the wrestling team hopes to make it to states this season. Along with the wrestlers come the wres-tlerettes. With Megan Alicandro, Nikki Wallis, and Andrea Cary as captains, the wrestlerettes are a ―new and improved squad this year,‖ said Alicandro. Indoor track also deserves an honorable mention as a winter sport. Although it is not technically a varsity sport, they practice just like any of the other sports, and also compete in meets a few times a year. So whether you‘re a swimmer, basket-ball player, wrestler, wrestlerette, or run-ner, you better get ready; winter sports are here.