THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Two years after not even having a team, Kootenai girls gotta wear shades

“Everyone said they wanted to get to state, and I said we’re going to have to put in an insane amount of work in order to get there,” Liermann said. “And they have. They have been coming in every Sunday; we have been practicing six days a week, and it’s not a ‘me’ thing, it’s a ‘them’ thing. They asked me, 'Hey coach, can we practice on Sundays? Can we have extra shootaround on Sundays?’ They’re all staying late after practice, they’re all working out at home, they’re all doing everything they should be to get to where we are.”