Multiple-Sister Act Fueling Esperanza’s Girls’ Basketball Success

Multiple-Sister Act Fueling Esperanza’s Girls’ Basketball Success
Esperanza High School’s girls’ basketball team in Anaheim, California. Courtesy of Gildan Photography
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ANAHEIM, Calif.—The iconic 1979 hit “We Are Family” is more than twice as old as every member of Esperanza High School’s girls’ basketball team. That hasn’t stopped Coach Jimmy Valverde from using the classic single as something of a theme song.

Hey, it worked for the late baseball Hall of Famer Willie “Pops” Stargell and the World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates back then, so why not the Aztecs now?

Dan Wood
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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
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