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Nobody saw the Western Washington University women’s basketball team going as far as it did this season.

Having only played six games last year in an abbreviated season, it was hard to put a gauge on where any team was heading into the NCAA Division II 2021-22 campaign.

Head coach Carmen Dolfo, who would become the Great Northwest Athletic Conference coach of the year, said she knew the team had the potential to be good after winning all six games, but the first goal was to win the GNAC.

“Our team does really well focusing on one game at a time and that’s one thing we really learned about ourselves,” Dolfo said. “We didn’t really want to jump too far ahead. We wanted to stay in the moment and focus on that game and when that was done move to the next one.”