Green Valley High School’s Aiyana Alchawa walks into the opposing team’s basketball gym and gets ready for the stares. The senior guard has come to expect it. Alchawa is Muslim and competes wearing a hijab, a head covering ...
It’s no stretch to call the Green Valley girl’s basketball team a perennial power in the Southeast division. The Gators have won at least 24 games and reached the Sunrise Region Championship in each of the last three seasons. First-year coach Ashley Brooks has no interest in lowering the expectations in 2010-2011.