Season Recap

Soo, season's over. A teammate summarized this year best by saying, "this season has been a team growing and building experience. We have built on old talent with added new talent, and now have a strong foundation for the next few years. The team chemistry on and off the field has allowed character building and a RSU family to enhance the relationships we already have taken from our experiences this year."

I know we had fun this year. It probably has been the most enjoyable soccer season I've ever experienced. I hope next year, also being my final year, will be as special as this year has been.

Well, we lost in the 2nd round of the SAC tournament to SNU. They went on to beat OCU in the finals and won the SAC championship. We ended up 13-7 overall this year and 5-5 in conference. Our record wasn't really good but we achieved a whole lot I think. We beat teams that we didn't think were beatable but then we lost to some teams that we shouldn't have lost to. Overall, it was a fantastic season but expect we will do much better next year! I promise!

Right now we are just working out on our own. After Christmas break we will come back together and start working out for off-season. This year will be our toughest off-season to date (ugh) I'm sure but once we get back into it I don't think it will be that bad.

Anyway, thank you to everyone who supported us this year! We had so much fun playing at home with all the fans we had. We really did have the best and definitely the most number of fans at our games compared to anyone we played all year. I'll keep posting throughout the rest of the semester and update everyone on what has been going on. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Conference Tournament

Man, I'm so proud of my team. We beat the #3 seed, Oklahoma Baptist, in the SAC tournament yesterday 1-0! It was a HUGE upset. They beat us earlier in regular season at home 1-0. Our girls played so well and were smart about how we played. We went up a goal pretty early in the 1st half so we had to defend the rest of the half then another whole 2nd half. Along with defending the entire 2nd half, we had to do it into the wind! And Oklahoma wind isn't just a breeze. We held on though. I was shaking after the game I was so pumped up. Now we are only 2 games away from the national tournament!! We play Southern Nazarene on Tuesday at their place. If we win that game then we'll play the winner of Oklahoma City and John Brown in the finals. They'll be two rough games but I have faith.

Now onto other stuff. I hate that we had to miss homecoming Saturday. They always seem to schedule it RIGHT in the middle of our post-season play. It is kind of frustrating. I wish who ever puts together the schedule would consider the other sports (cough, soccer, cough). It seems like we get the short end of the stick most of the time. Anyway, I'm done venting. In all, I'm just very proud of my girls and we worked really hard to get where we are. If you are in the city Tuesday come watch us play! We'll try and bring home a trophy for everyone!!