The Final Roster, Opening Day Approaches

Saturday, September 6th:

Tonight Coach Jennings announced our final roster, which was certainly a relief for some players as everyone can now focus on the coming season. It was quite difficult this year, with two seniors being let go and five former players overall not making it through tryouts. But while the coaches had to make some very tough decisions, we will hopefully be stronger for it, and I know our team is deeper than it has ever been. This year we have 7 seniors, 7 juniors, 6 sophomores, and 9 freshmen.

We have a bit of a family connection this season with freshmen Harrison Freund (junior Alex Freund’s brother) and Eli London (junior Jake London’s cousin) joining the team. It’s good to see some of our older players having a positive influence on recruiting and helping us to bring in some players who should contribute on the attacking end in the coming four years.

The regular season starts Tuesday as we travel to Mt. St. Mary’s, a team that didn’t give us too much trouble my first two seasons, but who pushed us to the brink last year when a 90th-minute winner by Ben Fox gave us a 2-1 victory. They’ve improved every year so we need to be ready to go Tuesday night.