Preseason is Here!

Well, that went by fast...

Summer vacation, summer camps, summer soccer, hopefully summer fun as well...now it's back to soccer...hard work, team work, school work, and fun as well! The 2008 Soccer Utes reported for training today...

Now the first day is not all that glamorous. Meetings, filling out forms, insurance issues, physicals...all kinds of things that need to get done. (If you can make it through the first day, you can make it through anything!).

We went to dinner as a team at Macaroni Grill in downtown Salt Lake City and checked into the Guest House... a small hotel on campus where we'll stay this week.

Practice starts tomorrow at 9:30 A.M. and we'll have a second training at 4 P.M. There are definitely a lot of butterflies and nervousness...but that's a good thing!

We'll have 10 brand new freshmen suiting up for the first time as Utah soccer team members: Lauren Dudley, Chelsea Forbes, Shay Kennedy, Katie Martinez, Mallory Mitamura, Lauren Porter, Anne Shallenberger, Roxy Tebbs, Hannah Turpen and Kellie Woodfield. Also, Katie Brower, who transferred to Utah in January, will be going through her first fall season.

They will join returners Nicole Cardon, Jen Christoffers, Erin Dalley, Amy Edman, Addie Hair, Lauren Hair, Kelly Isleib, Christine Quinn, Katy Reineke, Emalee Rogers, Danielle Sample, Amanda Sanchez, Morgan Skeen, Alyssa Toomey.

Stay tuned for more reports from Ute Training Camp...filled with videos and photos!