I’m sorry if today’s post is a tad sappy, but I am a
senior and I am allowed to have one sappy post in the midst of all of my team
hilariousness.
I feel old. I feel like an old lady. I had my senior game for college this weekend and that means I am old. Below is a picture from my senior game of high school. I felt old then and look how little I was. What made the senior game this time around a little more special was the fact that I was actually able to play in it. (See below the knee brace due to an acl tear) But what made it more sad is that I’m not going anywhere to play for another four years. I had this realization as I was listening to B-Mikes talk in the locker room and it made me realize how important it was to enjoy these last two weeks and be thankful for all of these years I was able to play.
My girls did a beautiful job of decorating the
locker room and making the four seniors feel like it was, in fact, our
birthdays. It turned out to actually be a pretty nice day and being announced
with the starting line-up along with hearing my stats over the last four years
read over the loud speaker made it very real. I didn’t feel sad though because
it wasn’t our last game. I think that it was better we did it that way because
we were able to just enjoy it and have fun, not be sad it was the last time we
were going to hear our names announced or run out of the tunnel. Fun fact, we
learned Liv has played over 3800 minutes of soccer since she’s been here - we
did the math, that’s almost three days of her life she has spent in a cardinal
uniform. (I know looking at it in days makes it seem less but that’s a ton.)
Buffalo was a solid game which went into a shootout
and even though it goes in as a tie we really needed the win to stay in the
running for SUNYACs. I will tell you there is not much that sucks more than
your team having such a bad season not only your last year, but under your
leadership. I cannot change how this season has gone. My girls can learn from
it for next year and I know they will thrive because they will never want to feel
like this again.
Back in the locker room, the juniors put together a
wonderful slideshow which depicted the seniors last four years. And by that I
mean, the worst pictures they could find of us from the last four years. Then,
each junior gave a little speech about a senior, and Mon’s speech to Liv made
everyone cry – it was precious. We then went up to the field house and had a
delicious cookout put on by all the parents. It was an almost perfect senior
day (would have been perfect if we had won) but I am so thankful for everything
that my team, the school and the parents did to make us feel special. It truly
was an awesome day.
This week at practice we are planning on working as
hard as we can in order to have a blast this weekend on our last away trip as a
team. We're even eating dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings so you know stuffs gonna
get crazy. We are working on everything from fundamentals to shooting to combinations
all week and plan on leaving this season as a solid starting point for next
season. Below is a time lapse video of each senior, yes that is a brunette
Olivia Hopeck.
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