Inner-Sport Engagement

YAYYYYY!!! Soccer player Tiffany Roberts and baseball player Josh Phillippi are engaged!! Sooo exciting! I love them!

Soccer Update

Sooo it's been a while but my schedule has been crazyyyy. It's only two and a half weeks into the semester and I think I have written enough essays to last a lifetime! I'm taking 18 hours (not my favorite schedule) and still practicing with the team for off-season. The only good thing about my schedule is this thing called blended classes. It's new I think, or at least to me. But blended classes are classes that only meet once a week for instruction and the rest is done online. 4 out of 6 of my classes are set up this way. It is really nice because I understand what's going on in class because we get to meet with the professor every week but then I can use the rest of the week to work on my homework when I have free time.

Soccer is taking up a good portion of my week too but it is nothing like season. We practice 3 times a week doing fitness and weight training in the gym. Because everyones schedule is so different on the team, we all work out at different times. I like the way it is set up because I like working out with a smaller group. It seems like we get more stuff done in the amount of time we are together. Once a week we get to go up to the Claremore community center to play futsol and soccer on their carpeted courts. That's when we all get to get together and play.

Other than class, homework and work outs there's not any time for much else. Hopefully everything will calm down and I can quit stressing out. It might actually be a good thing the weather is about to get a little nasty. It will give everyone an excuse to have to stay inside with me!!

Christmas Break

Sorry it's taken me so long to write on here! My Christmas break has been a little crazy. I've seen so much family and old high school friends in the past 2 weeks. It's been really great. I can't believe it's already Christmas! This year has gone by too fast.

Over the break I've gotten to work a little, save up a little spending money for next semester. I work at my dads restaurant when I get a chance. It's a fun job. I get to basically hang out with my tables all day. Everyone is in such a good mood during the holiday season. I'm loving it! Other than working, I've been hanging out and catching up with other friends that I don't get to see very often. Living two and a half hours away from home doesn't seem very far but it really is when you don't get to go home very much, especially during season. When I do go home during semester I want to see my family so that leaves my friends having to wait till Christmas and summer break to catch up. They don't seem to mind though.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and rest of the break!

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!!

Soccer Update!!

Sorry it's been so long. Can you have Senioritis and not be a senior?? I guess they would call it Junioritis in my case. Who knew college would be so hard?

Anyway, season's coming to an end and it's kind of scary. I can't believe my junior year is almost over. I'm going to be a senior here soon!! (ahhhh!!) We have two more games left until playoffs. Tonight we play Southern Nazarene University and Tuesday we play Northwestern University. They are both "must wins" if we want to place well for conference tournament. The first round of playoffs start on Friday the 6th. We don't know who we play yet but who ever it will be it will be a good game for us.

This year has been a little rocky. We play really really good one game and then the next not so well. It's really frustrating. I wish we were as consistent as other teams. That's not really saying much though because all of the teams in our conference have played a little inconsistent at some point. Everyone has a loss to someone else in the conference. It's almost like a big circle. You beat them, they beat you.. blah blah blah. You know?

But everyone should come out tonight for Senior Night! It's the last home game a bunch of our players will have. We play at 5 and the boys at 7. It should be a good game. Hopefully the weather won't be too terrible. (Cross your fingers)

Welllll, we are 3 games into conference play. I wish I could say that we are 3-0 but we lost last night to Oklahoma Baptist University so we are only 2-1 in conference. We have just come off the biggest win of the season Saturday night against Oklahoma City University to just turn over and get beat by a team, I have to say, was not better than us. We didn't play as well as we should and it was a huge learning experience for everyone (I hope). Anyway, since last night was essentially last night, we can hopefully move on and focus on our next game which is Friday afternoon at 1:00 in Shawnee, OK against St. Gregory's University. Wish us luck!!