HOME GAME

Our first home game is tonight against arizona! its been a long day already...CLasses could not go by fast enough! I'm excited for the home crowd and family to be there! and we are playing under the lights which is always fun!! hopefully we kick some butt tonight!! Hope i get to play and do well!! 

MY DORM

me and hannah 

and our sweet rides!!

My room!! a little small eh?
my desk...not yet organized..ha
some of the bathroom
our undecorated living room...don't worry it will be sweet when its done decoration!!
I moved into my dorm last sunday but only had a few nights in it before i was off to NC for our first soccer trip! here are some pics of what it looks like...some of it is prior to some decorating! 

Soccer

So our first game is under our belts.  We started our game off well and scored not too long into the game on a beautiful layoff from La La to Kelli.  She had a great finish!  We were in our half a lot and had a lot of pressure put on our back as Wake Forest pumped balls into our back line.  We defended for a majority of the game and got scored on about 7 minutes after we did.  We stayed tied thru regulation.  In the college game if you are tied after the 90 minutes there are two sudden death 10 minute overtimes.  We were under a lot of pressure in our first overtime and Wake played a great split ball to their forward who just slipped it past our keeper Em Rog's glove.  We lost in the 98th minute.  It was good to get one under our belt and we were able to learn a lot from playing one.  Now just resting up and getting ready for the next one! Hopefully we will get a win under our belt in the next one and keep going from there!   

Team BBQ/ Swim party

It was a nice afternoon to be able to get off the soccer field which has seen us so much the past two weeks and have an afternoon of fun and food.  We all car pooled out to Danielle Sample's (a senior Captain) grandparents house, which was out in Sandy, to swim and relax a bit.  We had a little team water basketball game and all the girls that played high school ball played a few other girls with a little less experience on the team.  The HS players won.  haha...but we all swam and relaxed and ate some great food!! Ribs, pulled pork and buns, cornbread, beans, and much more! It was great!  I think the highlight of the evening though was probably me beating JEN Christophers in Loopty Loo/ Latter golf...We had to play since she beat me and my partner at the team retreat.  I used my partner as a reason for loosing and challenged her to a one on one best of three match up.  Each game was very close!  I went over three times in the second game that she won but finished her off in the third game.  The BBQ was a great time and fun to bond with the teammates and get to know everyone off the field a little better!!

Two-a-days over!!

Wow...what a relief it is to know that we don't have any more two-a-days.  My body is a little tired and bruised and is ready for a break.  Last night we had a inter-squad scrimmage.  We play 10 v. 10 cause we have some team injuries.  The scrimmage went well.  First half finished 1-1 then we switched up the teams a bit and my team ended up winning the second half 2-0.  It was good to play for a good amount of time and to see how thing are working out with the new team.  So this morning I woke up to try and watch the U.S. v. Canada women's game to find out it was a lightning delay...back to sleep i went before our practice this morning.  We had a light practice cause we are imitating a game weekend where we have a game at night then a light practice the next day and ten another game the next afternoon.  But things are going well.  I'm off to our video session of our game from last night. 

Utah so far...

So I was talking to my parents and they told me that people have been wondering how I'm doing.  I've been really busy so sorry if you haven't gotten an update, so I decided that a blog would be an easy way for you guys to try and see what I'm up to up here in Salt Lake.  I'm new to this so hopefully its not too bad!!

So i have been up in Salt Lake for about 2 and a half weeks now and things have been great! The first week I got up here was just one practice a day with the upperclassmen running our practices. After about a week we got ready to start our preseason.

Aug. 4th we all packed up and moved into the guest house.  The whole team checked in and headed to meetings for the day to sign paperwork and get things squared away.  We had a team dinner at macaroni grill that night.  Let me tell you I love the college athlete life already!! FREE MEALS!! But we went back to the guest house that night and relaxed with our roommates and headed to bed to get a good nights rest for our first official day of preseason.

Our first day of preseason was a good one.  A little intimidating coming into a team that you have never played with but the girls were great and really positive with the 10 new freshmen that were joining the team.  

We had three days in a row of two a days and then headed off to Oakley Utah for our team retreat at one of the girls on the team's cabin.  We played rock band (which was really interesting to hear some of the girls belt out their souls), pool, latter golf, hoola hooped, 4-wheeled, and ate up at the cabin.  I had a great time and somehow managed to get a bed in the cabin...but don't tell the upperclassmen that slept on mats on the floor!! 

But preseason has been going good.  I'm trying to adjust to a new team and a little different surface from the flat turf I'm used to.  Our field is a little thicker than I'm used to.  But i love the girls and the team and I am way excited to start playing games!

Hope you guys like my new blog! I'll try to keep you guys updated.  Tell me what you think!