We begin our title defense of our 2009 LAA Lower Division Championship this Monday. We will return about 6 or so players off of last year's squad but only a couple played significant minutes or made significant contributions on last year's squad. Our biggest strength this year will be that we bring back over 2/3 of our goals scored last season in our two forwards (now a 7th and an 8th grader). The core of our dominating defense from last yeaer all graduated so we'll have to raise up a new goalie and strong fullbacks.
Our schedule this year is bigger as we picked up three non-conference games in addition to our six conference games and one out-of-town tournament. Our practice field at our school has been reduced by almost 80% due to a small addition to our building. There is still enough room to work out, but no much. There are numerous soccer fields within a 3 mile radius of our school (all with goals and nets) if we had the means of getting our kids to them (ie. a 15-passenger van)- but until we see that happen we will more than gladly make due with the luxury and convenience of walking out our school's back door right onto our fenced in field.
Hopefully, our school's running tradition of a stud 8th grade athlete transferring in continues, but if not I am sure that this year's Tigers will make the season a memorable one.
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