The season came and went now with our loss in the ECAC tournament. We didn't achieve our main goal of making the NCAA tournament. In the beginning of the year, we saw ourselves in the first round of the NCAA's and there wasn't one of us that thought we wouldn't make it there when it was all said and done. Each game, for us freshman, wore on and the loses put us all down and in bad moods when we would get back to the dorms together. Each game really took a tole on my body. I was banged up and bruised by the time the last game of our season rolled around. Each of my teammates could say the same. We had 12 girls on sitting the bench for injuries when we started warming up for our semi final game in the ECAC's. I looked to my left and saw all the incapable players and then looked to my right and saw my coach standing tall with a confident look on his face. No matter what the numbers I knew coach would still be behind us and believing in all of us to do well.
Even though we lost the game, coach stood tall in the locker room after the game too. He said he was proud of us and that he was determined to do a lot better. After he thanked the seniors he sounded optimistic when he told us that next year was going to be different. Even though i'm not ready to think about next year just yet, I think we all know what its going to take to win. By winning I mean achieving our goal and winning enough to get to the NCAA's where we should be. Its hard to wrap your head around the fact of a season ending. Everything ends all at once and can be a lot to handle for us all. The fact that we will never see some of these people again on the soccer field next to us is overwhelming. Also, our everyday routines come to a complete end. Everything that we were used to is over and we learn to adapt to change once again. Going to practice and prepping for games was a huge part of our lives and now we are all about to see what its like to live without that.
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