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“Ward is a tough defensive matchup because she can shoot the ball very well, and she is a great slasher to the hoop. So if you play tight on her, she will take it to the hoop hard. And if you play off her, she will nail the 3-pointer."

“The best defense really is to not let her get the ball,” the coach concludes, although then, she’ll just start working to create shots for her teammates.

“She’s the real deal,” another opposing coach said of the Bulldogs’ 5-foot-7 junior point guard. “I’ve seen her since she was a freshman, and she just gets better every year."

”Meredith’s got it all,” [Bulldogs coach Holly] Misto said of Ward, who averages almost 23 points per game and leads Westerly in practically every statistical category.

“She can bang the three. She can take it to the hole. She can stop and shoot a 5-foot jump shot. She’s about an 80-percent free-throw shooter. So she’s tough for other teams to contend with because she has so many different weapons.”

Ward also possesses another important characteristic, Misto says: “She is very unselfish."

“Meredith has a great attitude,” she said. “She’s confident, but not arrogant. Se goes about her business and she never complains. She just loves to play the game.”