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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