Meet the assisstant coach

Patrick Michael Shaughnessy was born on April 27, 1990 in Plattsburgh, N.Y. He is a childhood education major with a minor in coaching and his favorite food is chicken wings. At the age of 22, Pat is in his fifth year at Plattsburgh State, has played baseball and soccer at Plattsburgh State (while thriving at both), maintained an awesome GPA and learned that he prefers Nike over Adidas.

Pat was the leading goal scorer in school history with 76 goals at Plattsburgh High School where he lettered in soccer as well as baseball and basketball. After high school, he moved up a level and down the street to Plattsburgh State where he played forward for the Cardinals and after four years ended his soccer career with 42 goals and 98 points. He received fall All-SUNYAC Academic honors multiple times, was named to the Commissioner’s List and named to the All-SUNYAC Second Team. So basically he’s alright at soccer and a good role model and we’re lucky to have him yeah yeah we know.

For baseball, Pat played second base and led the Cardinals with 21 runs batted in, was second among regular players with a .312 batting average and scored a team-high 26 runs his junior year. He was also named to the All-SUNYAC First Team, but this is a soccer blog so let’s stick with what we know.

Pat has been a great fit to the women’s soccer program and we really enjoy having him around. Pat redid our whole practice and pregame warm up, gives great advice and is really good at carrying the jerseys out for us before the game. He is positive, always friendly, has a great attitude and I speak for myself as well as the rest of the girls when I say we really like having him on the field with us. He stays after practice to help us work on stuff, he is a great listener and he is an alright ref when we scrimmage during practice.

Now, this wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t add something odd, so here it is. Pat is a Taurus and Wiley is a Sagittarius, so if you know anything about astrology you know that these are two very different personalities who are trying to work together. “Taurus are quiet and patient people while Sagittarians are loud and head strong. The professional compatibility of Taurus and Sagittarius is going to be promising. The relaxed and restless nature of Taurus will find right compliment in excitement of Sagittarius. In spite of radically different temperaments and approaches, Taurus and Sagittarius will learn to appreciate the benefits of their mutual efforts and work hard to bring stability to their work.” It also goes on to say both should avoid irking each other, but honestly you should avoid irking Wiley regardless of your sign. I’d say this looks like a promising relationship and so far we have no complaints. (All this information is brought to you by my good friends at mywebastrologer.com.)

·         What are your goals for the season?

I would like to win SUNYAC's and make a run into NCAA's.

·         How do you feel about Buddha?

Buddha is the man.

 

·         What is something that has surprised you so far?

How much the team hangs out and how all the girls seem to get along all of the time. That’s not the case with the guys’ team.

·         What is your favorite Gatorade flavor?

Yellow all the way.

·         Describe your coaching style in one word.

Fun.

 

·         What is the best advice you’ve ever gotten?

Don't let anyone tell you what you can do.

·         What do you want to take away from this experience?

I want to just become a better coach, see what works and what doesn't work. I want to take away some ideas for the future and hopefully coach my own team one day.


 

(Pats Favorite Pump Up Song)

 

 

 

 

Happy Conference Play! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

FINALLLYY, conference opener and we killed it, just like Buddha knew we would. This was just the game we needed to get back on our feet. The best part of the match was that all three of the goals were the first of their collegiate careers for Macee Maddock, Marcelle Shepisi and Taylor Florio. So proud of my little guys. We also had a big turn out including support from the PSU men's hockey and basketball teams so thanks for that boys. We chose to go against the wind in the first half because B-Mikes had a feeling the wind would be stronger in the second half which would ultimately give us the bigger advantage. Well, that feeling he had was rain - a cold, windless rain. Rain has become a bit of a staple in our games so it’s nothing we weren’t used to or prepared for. A little rain is nothing after the hurricane that danced through the Husson game or the downpour during the Middlebury game last Tuesday.

 

The Middlebury game started off with pouring rain straight out of your favorite romantic comedy. I’m talking torrential downpour that looked like it was created on a movie set, it made us all 5 pounds heavier and our hair 5 times curlier. This game was special in that it was the end of a tradition here at Plattsburgh State, we did away with the international walk out because Wiley said it was so boring it made her sick. We now form two lines creating a tunnel for the starters to run through. It is soo much better and a lot more fun. Then, after the new cool announcements, the national anthem wouldn’t play - and something happened straight out of Mean Girls. Both teams joined together and started singing, in the pouring rain, off key and I’m pretty sure we screwed up the lyrics. It was cute and funny but we needed to get down to business. At the end of the day we played really well considering the rain was so forceful you couldn’t see more than 3 feet in front of you and Middlebury is ranked 9^th in the country. They scored with eleven seconds left in the first overtime, which was a bummer, but we’ll move past it and learn from it.

This week Danielle Schmitt celebrated her 19^thbirthday on Sept. 21. WOHOO the big 1-9. Awesome. We had another great tailgate after the game on Saturday so special thanks and shout out to the parents that make that happen and give us a chance to actually get to know each other. And please pray that we make it through our first Monday practice of the season were we don’t have a game until Friday (a.k.a lots of fitness). We have two home games this weekend, the Cortland Red Dragons at 4 p.m. on Friday and the Oswego Lakers (whatever that is) Saturday at 1 p.m. Come down and show your support!

 

Bonus Question of the week: Do you know why Wiley will be cheering for both teams on Saturday? Come to the game and check back on Sunday to find out!

 

(how we feel about Friday's game)

Buddha Buddha Buddha Buddha Rockin Everywhere

Hello everyone, welcome to the official blog of the Plattsburgh State women’s soccer team. We’re already a few weeks into the season so I’m going to fill you in as quickly as possible on the ridiculousness that is our team.

Preseason was a rough week complete with blisters, sunburns and ice baths. And as an added bonus, the captains got to participate in a boot camp run by ex-marine Eric Kapitulik. (The link about Eric and the program is at the bottom of the post I really encourage you to check out his story.) This included the girls having to carry each other on their backs during suicides, Em LaLone almost drowning, seriously, and a lot of other activities that taught the girls a lot about being there for a teammate and mental toughness. And after they couldn’t get out of bed for the next three days, we started off preseason with the mile run, the worst 6 minutes and 45 seconds of our lives. For Kristie, Liv Hopeck and I, we will never have to run it again, YAYYAY. And Kristie ran it in an unimpressive 5 minutes and 51 seconds. Only one second off the all-time record which is held by Emily Riley, or as Monica D’Ippolito would say future hall-of-famer Em Riley.

This year we had another record, the amount of freshmen that came to preseason and the returner/freshmen ratio. A totally of 13 freshmen graced our presence; I know that’s a lot. Our roster is now 13 freshmen and 14 returners, that’s pretty much half and half and it’s weird. No one is complaining though because this freshman class has a tonnn of talent, including a few starters. Some fun stuff that happened during preseason, well.. we adopted a new mascot this year, Buddha. He lives in the locker room and is already changing colors from everyone rubbing his big belly for good luck. We loveeee him. I brought my car to school for the first time and day two of preseason my back window stopped going up (see picture below). We also had our annual team hike were Wiley did her best to take pictures with her iphone and ended up taking more of herself. We ended the week with a cookout at Wiley’s house where her mom made us the best food we have all year, hands down the best cheesy potatoes in the Northern Adirondack Region.

In the actual soccer aspect of this post, our record stands at 4-3. After winning the Cardinal Classic and beating Castleton and Husson, Buddha decided we needed a little character building and our next three defeats resulted in 1-0 losses, two of which came from PK’s due to hand balls in the box. We play Middlebury tonight at home in the pouring rain, just the way we like it, and our SUNYAC schedule starts this Saturday at home vs. Potsdam. Let’s go Cards, one team one heartbeat.
 

 

 

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