September 25
This weekend we head to Union and Skidmore for our first Liberty League weekend. In my three previous seasons at Vassar, we’ve only managed a total of three points from our opening League weekend, and the big holes we’ve put ourselves in can explain why we’ve missed the playoffs each of these years. This season, we have a better and deeper squad, so we need to get off to a better start and pick up points this weekend. We tied both of these teams last year so they should be good games.
An away weekend is quite an experience for college athletes, especially coming from high school (I think I only played one game in high school that was more than an hour away). After our Union game on Friday, we’ll head to a hotel for the night. The next morning, we have a team breakfast (the free food all weekend is one of the best parts of the trip for the players), and we’ll watch some game tape from Friday’s match, as well as do a short warm-up jog and stretch to keep everybody loose for the second game. It can be good to get away from campus for two days- it keeps everyone focused 100 percent on the games, and allows for some time to get homework done, but its still fun to be in a hotel with all of your teammates. This is our only away weekend of the season, and a much shorter trip than last year, when we went to both Clarkson/St. Lawrence and Hamilton/Hobart. It can be a very long weekend on the field though, as several times we’ve had both games in the same weekend go into overtime (including last year against these two teams). This can mean 220 minutes of soccer in barely more than 24 hours, and usually a few starters end up playing every one of those minutes.
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