Friday August 29th:
After a two-mile race to shock everyone back into preseason, we had the rest of our fitness testing yesterday, a mix of endurance and strength testing. Players who do not meet the sliding scale for the running tests in addition to achieving a satisfactory performance in the weight room are sent to the dreaded “Breakfast Club”- the purgatory of Vassar Soccer preseason- a series of early-morning fitness sessions before the day’s first practice.
After a tough morning, our afternoon session was less strenuous, as we began to really focus on our preseason games with Williams and Middlebury on Sunday. Both teams have won national championships, with Williams winning in 1995 and Middlebury grabbing their first national title last fall with a surprise upset over Trinity of Texas. We haven’t had much time to compare for such a difficult test, so our practice today was mostly designed to prepare us for how we were going to play come game day. Coach Jennings started by using cones to give us a demonstration on how he wanted us to position ourselves and move the ball around, and we gradually built up to an 11-on-11 walkthrough and then a full-speed scrimmage. Even though we lost a four-time All-Liberty League center-back in Ben Fox, we have a lot of experienced defenders coming back and I’m confident we can be a very tough defensive side with the players we have.
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