Last Session before A10 Opener

The title of todays blog leads me into the practice session today and the good news that apart from some long term injuries which are ongoing everyone else participated in the session and will look to play some part in the games this weekend.  Its been a tough few weeks with injuries so credit to Marta for getting the guys fit and credit to the players for keeping with the rehab and extra sessions to get them back on the field quickly.

The session was upbeat with the buzz on the field that was missing on Tuesday but came back yesterday and today to let me know we are ready for the games this weekend.  After a brief talk in the locker room and white board it was onto the field to continue the theme of the week and get a good work out before tomorrow.  Not sure how my red team lost the shooting challenge at the end but I have to question Coach Irizarry's counting of his Buff teams goals.  Anyways it was a good end to the session with some nice goals to watch and the competitive nature coming through from the players and their desire to win.  I will have a chance to review some of the goals tonight thanks to Matty Scott filming on the IPad.

Tomorrow we travel to Richmond for our opening A10 game and both teams will be wanting to get off to a good start in conference play.  After winning their last 3 games Richmond are on a high so go into the encounter the team on form.  Its up to us to stop the momentum as quickly as possible in the game and dictate the tempo as quickly as we can.  After a full back page article on senior Captain Rudolph today in the GW Hatchet Article he will want to live up to his preseason All Conference first team award.  NO pressure !!

The A10 will be a great soccer conference this year as we have already seen with teams ranking nationally throughout the season so far and individual player of the week honors nationally.  Theres no better thing to be a part of than conference play.  Knowing every game counts it will go right to the very end as teams compete to get into the top 8 and an A10 Championship berth and automatic NCAA berth for the winner at stake.  Good luck to all the teams this year and I look forward to seeing you on the field.

Magic Moment of the Day
Seeing the boys buzzing around and showing the belief, desire and confidence ready for tomorrow.