Soccer, Achieving what no one was thought possible of us that year.

In the beginning of my sophomore season at our junior college, no one expected us to be good. This was because the previous three years we had the most terrible winning records a team could have. My freshman year we went 3-12. That's right, we were the bad news bears. The start of our sophomore season we went 1-1. Everyone at our college expected us to have a crappy record, and did not expect us to go as far as we did. We were a lot better than anyone thought we would be. We ended up 10-8 -1. We qualified for the sub-regional where we had to play at Alfred, who we lost to in the beginning of the season 3-2. We were all thinking we were going to be done right then and there. That's what everyone thinks when they come to play a team that has already beaten you. However, we were out for revenge. When we played them in the beginning in the season, they were dirty players. They were always looking to take people out, so we wanted to come in and prove we were better than them. When we showed up the field was under about an inch of water. Every time you ran you would slip on the mud, or if you were the goalie, like I am, you'd get stuck in the mud in front of the goal. We ended up shutting them out by a score of 3-0. We were so excited and overwhelmed, that we had beaten them. This put us in quarter finals where we were to play Delhi, a team we beat in overtime 3-2 earlier in the season. The disadvantage to this was we had to go and play on their field. when we got back to school everyone was shocked that we had gone as far as we did. We were getting all sorts of attention from people who doubted us. During regular season when we played Delhi on our field, they thought that it was going to be an easy win but we came in and fought with them. We won with 5 minutes left in the 2nd overtime. So when we showed up to play them on their field, they were ready. There were at least 200 people there watching. Even though there was no snow on the ground it was lightly snowing on and off. We held them from scoring in the first half, as they did the same to us. Our girls were making great shots but they would either hit the tip of the cross bar and go over, or they would bounce back into the field. The downfall to the game happened in the second half when a girl scored. the goal should have not counted because she was way offsides. Well we ended up losing 0-2, ending our season. We were all upset because if we would have won this game we would have been in the final four. However, we got farther than everyone had ever expected that we would have. We realized that no matter how many people think you will fail at something, does not mean you will. That when people say that about you or your team, you can use it as motivation to prove them wrong.