Marist ninth grade basketball is off to a flaming start in the 2025-26 season.

With four decisive victories over Dunwoody, Milton, North Springs, and Chamblee, this team is setting our school’s athletics standard throughout Georgia high school basketball.

Drew Santa, a player on the basketball team, believes that this particular team has an advantage over their competition. “Everyone on our team is capable of playing an entire game if we need them to and the running is a direct correlation of this,” Santa said. He believes that this hot start was ready to come to this team as they have been hard at work in practice with not only playing basketball but also conditioning.

Throughout the start of the season and even before the season officially started, this team has been getting in great basketball shape and will continue to do so.

Santa has one simple rule for continuing this recent success. “Win every game,” Santa said. This team believes that they can go undefeated this year and, as of right now, it is believable with their impressively strong start.

James Economos, another player on the team, agreed with Drew. “Win,” Economos said.

This team has pride, power, grit, and determination; exactly what a successful Marist athletics team has. They have every right to believe that they can go undefeated this year.