Your Woman Wave soccer captains: Kaelyn Gump (left) and Josie Madden (proper)
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By Drew Terhall
DailyAdvocate.com
GREENVILLE — The highschool fall sports activities season is formally right here. July 31 is the primary day all fall sports activities can begin to apply and put together for his or her upcoming season.
To start the model new season, Greenville ladies soccer had their annual Midnight Insanity apply at Harmon Subject. As soon as the clock struck midnight, the group was launched and so they had a brief apply to usher within the new season.
Head coach Dave Ernst stated general, he is able to see what his group can do that season. A bulk of the group is making their Greenville soccer debut this season.
“Excited, terrified. However extra excited for the brand new season. We obtained some ladies which can be making their first appearence tonight to get began. Then tomorrow, the primary day of precise coaching. Excited to get the season going,” Ernst stated.
The group is coming off a 3-14-1 season. The group matched their win complete from 2021. Greenville had three wins within the 2019 and 2020 season mixed.
Ernst stated this 12 months’s group is extra athletic and has extra velocity than final 12 months’s group. After dropping eight seniors from final 12 months’s group, they received’t have a number of expertise or a excessive degree of soccer IQ.
It would take time for the group to get that have and enhance their soccer IQ. However with the bodily skills this group has, this system might get off to a greater begin.
“We don’t have the soccer data or the method that we misplaced with the eight seniors, dropping them. However, athletic potential and simply pure velocity, we made main enhancements,” Ernst stated.
After the groups have been launched, the captains for this season have been named. Seniors Kaelyn Gump and Josie Madden have been named the 2 captains.
Gump was a captain final season. She stated after seeing what the group misplaced final season, she did have her worries in the event that they have been going to have the ability to area a group. However after going via the summer time exercises, she is happy to see the brand new ladies are available and work with them.
“All through the summer time, there was a number of incoming freshmen and a number of incoming expertise. With the ability to lead these ladies into highschool and furthering their love for soccer is a good alternative,” Gump stated.
Madden is able to lead this group of women all through the season. As one of many few gamers who does have expertise enjoying soccer on the varsity degree, she understands her position in acclimating the group to varsity competitors.
“We’ve to set the tone for the entire season. A whole lot of the women have by no means performed earlier than, so we have now to point out the way it’s speculated to be,” Madden stated.
Having the group select the captains exhibits the adjustments Ernst has made to his teaching philosophy. As a substitute of creating each determination, he needs to let his captains take management of the group.
To him, it’s the captains’ group.
“I’ve all the time named my captains. They’ve all the time form of emerged. This 12 months, leaving a number of the choices as much as the women. The ladies voted on them on the finish of group week final week,” Ernst stated. “Large step, leaders for this system.”
The ladies are able to get the season began. It’s going to be a new-look Woman Wave group taking the sector this season. For each captains, they’re excited to kind new relationships with their new teammates and see what they will obtain collectively.
“A whole lot of groups have that chemistry already, we don’t. I’m excited to attempt to kind these bonds with them,” Gump stated.
“We’ve a number of expertise and athleticism. I wish to see how we are able to all play collectively,” Madden stated.
Contact Every day Advocate sports activities editor Drew Terhall at [email protected]
Originally posted 2023-07-31 14:11:14.