Spring practice officially began this morning. The team practices bright and early. With Ute Soccer Field being under the weather this time of year, our training is held at the Spence Eccles Field House, a beautiful state-of-the-art indoor facility that was built 3 years ago. Our players take classes after 10:00 A.M. this semester. We train daily at 7:00 A.M. And we do strength and conditioning on Mondays and Wednesdays at 8:30 A.M.
Spring training focuses on individual development. Players work on making their games better. This morning, we worked hard on individual defense. Then the forwards and midfielders trained on making precise runs and target passes, while the defense worked in pairs on covering for each other. We work on perfecting fundamentals during the spring semester. The NCAA allows us to have 5 spring matches so that we can apply these fundamentals in a game environment. We get the added bonus this spring of going on a foreign trip to Argentina and Uruguay! (The NCAA allows one foreign trip every 4 years). We are heading to South America from March 14-23...and we get to play the Argentine full women's national team, the Uruguayan full
women's national team as well as the club team San Lorenzo, from Argentina's Women's 1st Division. (More about the trip later!).We are finishing practice each day with a fun fact about Argentina or Uruguay. Today's fun fact was supplied by sophomore midfielder, Danielle Sample, who told us about the Falabella horse that is bred in Argentina. These miniature horses are only 30 INCHES tall. And no, they cannot be ridden!
Anyway, we have a team bowling event tonight at the student union....and back to practice in the morning!
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