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By PAUL McFARLANE
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Joel Voorhees is perched in the bandbox bombshelter that is the Rappahannock County High School gymnasium, waiting to spring surprises on basketball competitors in the Bull Run District.
As rookie coach of the Rappahannock County varsity girls’ basketball team, Voorhees is an unknown quantity in the eight-team district.
For that matter, the rest of the district is virtually unknown by Voorhees.
In this, his first year in the county public school system, all Voorhees knows about the competition in the Bull Run is what he saw in a game last week between county high school teams from Clarke and Warren. And Warren County does not participate in the Bull Run.
“I’m hoping, being from out of state, that maybe I’ll use plays that nobody’s used before,” Voorhees said before practice last week. “Maybe I can beat somebody that way.”
Simply, he says: “I don’t know how good the other teams are. ”
Subsequently, he is not setting his sights on winning the district championship — although he says that would be accepted — but, rather, he is hoping for more subtle success from his 1985 squad.
He is hoping to win the home opener Tuesday against Warren County — “that would be a good foot to step on,” he says — and he wants his players to “learn one new thing this year.”
Beyond that, Voorhees will take whatever the season has to offer.
Still, Voorhees is not without some resources even if he did lose three senior starters from last year’s club.
There is Karen Jordan, an all-district player of a year ago and Natalie Butler, the team’s tallest player at 59.
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