Accolades and Practice

After the tough weekend of games and travel I felt it necessary to give the players off practice both Monday and Tuesday this week.  With many guys having little strains, tightness and overall soreness it has been essential the past 2 days that they received treatments and hit the dreaded ice baths as they try and recover.  Hopefully the extra day off will serve them well as we prepare this week for the visit of George Mason our NEW Atlantic 10 local rival and the start of our Revolutionary Rivalry between our schools.

Before we get to practice alot has happened these past 2 days and another reason to be proud of the team this Fall.  Firstly, Eddie Painter after his heroics on Friday night scoring the game winner in OT was named GW Colonial Athlete of the week.  A short interview with Eddie can be found here on RaiseHighTV Interview  Eddie is the 3rd GW Mens soccer player to receive the award this Fall, so far.  Secondly, Tobi Adewole has continued his great season by receiving his second Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week Award after his first collegiate goal on Friday night tied the game and then getting the assist for the winning goal.  The A10 article can be read here Rookie Award or visit our website.
Lastly, the University paper featured a story on goalkeeper Luke Farrell after his impressive displays over the last few weeks and that can be found here Hatchet Story

Okay, back to today and after the weekends results the competition to get into the A10 championship tournament is wide open with every team still in the hunt to qualify so its going to go all the way to the final weekend and probably last day.  For us, we know that we have to get results in all our remaining 3 games to be sure of a place in the top 8.  Anything less and we then leave it to other teams and results to dictate or path so we certainly don't want that to happen if possible.

With injury concerns after the weekend today's session was a chance to see how far those players are away from returning or more positively in some cases seeing them return today was great.  A FIFA 11+ warm up some fitness and possession and we were done for the day.  Not quite they got a light lift in with our strength and conditioning coach.

For me, in between my daily office routine and work I got a great email that informed me a recent parking ticket had been voided and all the hours waiting on the phone had paid off as I won my appeal.  Seems small but anytime you can win when the odds are against you makes me even happier and $30 to the better.

Raise High Moment of the Day
Even though it wasn't officially today that it was announced I gotta give it to Eddie Painter and Tobi Adewole on their weekly awards.