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15 September 2016
Draft #1
1st Edition
Girls Soccer
The wild roller coaster ride with the girls’ soccer team this year.
By Carlos Navarro
This year the girls soccer team started off on a weird foot. The first couple of games, the girls were defeated by schools around Utah, but that was only pre-season. Their first region game was at Canyon View, and they lost a close game by two goals. The girls then played against Carbon and beat them four to one.
The team played Juab and won in overtime 2-1 two weeks ago. This week, they played Richfield last week, winning 3-1, and lost to Canyon View 0-3. With more games to come, junior Sarah Applegarth sees a bright future for the team this year.
Applegarth is a starting varsity center mid who is the brain of the field as what people call the center mids in soccer. When playing against Canyon View the first time, Applegarth noticed a couple things from the game that she and the team will work on.
“We could’ve won against Canyon View,” Applegarth said. “It was a well fought out game between both teams, they just had to lucky goals against us that shouldn’t have gone in.”
Avery Briggs, senior at NS, after watching the next Canyon View game, which the team lost, feels like they play at a disadvantage when playing teams like Canyon View.
“We lack experience where we are playing against a team where all the girls have been playing all of their lives,” Briggs said.
This year at NS has been a complicated year for the girls’ soccer team. It wasn’t until the middle of the summer that the girls knew that they were going to have a coach.
Applegarth has had a new coach all three years that she has been attending at NS and is bugged by this.
“It sucks because I feel like I have to impress each new coach every year, and you have to relearn how the coach teaches and how they want to play,” Applegarth said.
The new head soccer coach for the girls is a young woman who is studying at Snow College and lives in Ephraim right now. Her name is Nicole Tew, 19 and grew up in Farmington, Utah. She played soccer for a 5A school up north and went to state finals all four years and won state in 2012.
“I was really nervous the first day because I came from a huge school to a small school I have never heard of,” Tew said. “Knowing this is my only year coaching, I want to have a fun year with the girls and teach them that the point isn’t always to win. Although winning is nice, I want to show them how to love the sport like I do.”
Although everything seems to be coasting with a few bumps for the girls soccer team, some of the players and parents have issues with the soccer field at NS.
“Coming from a big high school, it was a big downgrade, but at the end of the day you get what you get,” Tew said.
Although, the girls’ soccer has had a few bumps on and off the field, they are striving to go far through hard work and commitment.
