During the 2025-2026 varsity basketball season, the Mount Greylock boys basketball team played to a 5-15 record. Coach Tommy Verdell is excited about the next season, and, along with his team, is “committed to improving every aspect of their games, and that shared buy-in, combined with the lessons we’ve already earned.”
Throughout the season, the team experienced “LUMPS,” which Verdell explained as “Learning Under Meaningful Pressure Situations.” Next season, Verdell plans to “design practice, player development, and decision-making so that the habits required to win under pressure are trained consistently, not discovered in the moment,” which he hopes will bring a bright future for his team.
Throughout their season, Mount Greylock had many different standout players. Verdell said, “I’d point to our seniors collectively for the way they led by action every day through their energy, effort, and commitment to our standards.” He also credited all the underclassmen for making meaningful strides and preparing to step up and flourish in the seasons to come.
The team is very close, something “intentionally built around our family values of loyalty, trust, and love,” explained Verdell. These values “allowed [the team] to stay together through adversity this season.”
Verdell believes that the team has a very bright future: “I’m really excited about their continued maturation as players moving forward.”
