New Girl’s Soccer recruits promise a fulfilling season

With an almost identical starting line up as well as four new freshmen, girls soccer moves forward from tryouts with a seasoned team and hopeful outlook on the season.
While underclassmen may bring talent to the table, experienced players were not phased.
“Especially if there is a lot of new talent, it can be a threat but I think a lot of the upperclassmen are very confident and secure in their positions this year,” junior Melody Marshall said.
In addition to only losing four seniors, the varsity starting line up from last year remains largely intact.
“We’re all already used to working together, we don’t have to go through that weird phase of getting used to each other,” senior Jianna Torre said, “we’re just going to pick up where we left off last year.”
Head coach Ann Germain agrees adding that the new players on varsity will help advance the team.
“The players that are moving in will certainly strengthen us, but we’ve got a lot of leadership coming back in our upperclassmen,” Germain said.
These new players include four freshmen, which will be a different look for a team that had absolutely no freshmen last year.
“It’s intimidating but all the juniors and senior and everyone tries help you and let know when you’re ding a good job,” freshman Erin Guth said, “it’s been fun,”
Germain looks to this season to continue the improvement seen over past seasons.
“We’ve progressed both in terms of our style of play, level of play and our results on the field,” Germain said.
Different from some teams, the JV and varsity teams usually practice together separating into different position groups.
“There’s not one set JV coach and one set varsity coach, everyone just kind of helps out,” Torre said. “It’s an interesting dynamic, we just have fun with it.”
Germain cites this style of practicing as an advantage against other teams in terms of teamwork and cooperation.
“I think we just have a lot more camaraderie across the program,” Germain said.
Germain adds that this method allows the coaches to evaluate younger players and determine the right place for them.
“We basically are sort of conservative in term of moving them up, we wait to see where they fit in from a training environment sometimes even from a social environment,” Germain said.