The Final Countdown

Today is my very last game of the season and I am so sad to have to end it all. We have had a great season and we plan to continue our winning all the way till the end. We have had some super high high's and super low low's but we want to finish it with a bang. For low's we have our our losses against Brighton and losing of some players due to serious injuries. Our Brighton loss wasn't even that bad, we were tied all the way up till the last minute where they had a rolled ball enter the net. For high's we won every single game so far except Brighton and we have created some tight bonds and friendships. We may have had the times where we didn't think that we would come through, like our last game agains Heriman we were down by two at halftime and then came out and beat them by three. We also had our moments where we completely crushed the other teams because we played like an actual team would. Some of us may get in arguments but we always apologize, we may drop the ball but we are always cheering on our teammate, we may drop the ball occasionally (literally and figuratively) but we always hustle to pick up our mistakes.  Even if we miss a goal our teammate is hauling butt to win the chase. No matter what we support each other in every decision we make and if it was a mistake we forgive them and continue on with life. We all are one team and we all want the same goal, to get the win, and without good teammates we wouldn't be able to communicate and get the win. We all have Miner PRIDE and we all will fight to keep that Miner PRIDE. I loved all my coaches this year because they all encouraged me and helped me get better. I am really happy because I have gotten so much better at lacrosse this year then I was last year and I owe all my defense skills to my coaches this year because they pushed me to do everything. I was sad when our coach Ellie Mango left because she helped me so much when I was struggling. I am happy that I had the opportunity to have Maddie, Laurel, and Ellie Mango as my coaches this year because because it was a super great opportunity.

Park City Miners

I am sad to see the seniors leave because they have become a part of our lacrosse family and it is too sad to say goodbye. We have three seniors and two of which aren't going to go to the game tonight because they have work so last night was our last practice with them and on Wednesday that was our last game with them. I like to look up to them and have them help me when I need help. They are always fighting for the ball and charging for the goal. No matter what they are giving it their all and I like to think that I will have that much fire in me when I am their age. I think that when I become a senior I will look at all the freshman and think about all the seniors when I was a freshman and how I want to look like they did and play as hard as they did. I really liked having those role models this year but I am super sad to be saying goodbye.

Just Pee Your Pants

My last lacrosse game was against Olympus and they were kind of a weird team. Some of the girls were super nice and friendly and others were just flat out rude. Some girls would be like oh I love your hair and the other would be like make sure to push that girl because she's going to goal. We were really nice to them and saying good job and things like that but some of the girls would either smile back or the other would give a deathly glare. They were so bipolar because every girl was completely different from her teammate. I was really weirded out.

Before halftime came around I didn't realize the weird things they were doing but then at halftime a whole bunch of my teammates pointed out their weirdness.  All the girls that were playing defense told me that one of the girls told her teammate she really had to pee and the other teammate told her to just pee. I was so weirded out and didn't know who the girl was so I didn't want to run into her if she had peed. I really didn't want pee all over me and then my teammate went on with the story and said the one girl that had to pee said, "I peed last time and don't want to pee again." After I heard that I took a huge sigh of relief but then the story went on: Khaki, my teammate, told me that later she over heard the girls talking again and said, "I just peed." After hearing that I was fully aware that I needed to figure out who this girl is and stay away from her because I wasn't going to risk getting some pee on me. I was so relieved that she was playing attack and I wouldn't be able to make contact with her or else I was going to have to take about five hundred showers before I could do anything. I felt so bad for all the defenders that had to play defense on her because they had a very high risk of getting pee on their body. It's so disgusting that someone would pee on the field just because it was raining and the rain would "wash" it away. I have a news flash for this girl, the pee won't wash off with some rain coming down.

My reaction is the same as Ellen's

Another girl on the other team said that she hoped the ground would get struck by lightning and that our team would get electrocuted. But this girl wasn't the brightest person because she didn't think about the fact that they were on the exact same field as us and if the ground was struck by lightning not just my team would bd electrocuted but she and her team would be electrocuted as well. I just don't understand the things that run through their heads. Who thinks it's okay to pee your pants, I am just flabbergasted.

Pleasant Grove's Cry for Help

Last night was my second game and first home game of the season and we went all out for it. We started the game pumped and ready to play Pleasant Grove. We were jumping and running and doing all these crazy things to warm ourselves up because the weather was brutal last night, it was in the twenties during our game and some of us, including me, were not smart and didn't bring gloves so our hands were freezing and to add to that there was a chilly wind. The thing that made our hands even more cold was the fact that our sticks have metal shafts that we hold onto and they aren't warm so we have to hold something freezing even though without the pole we would still be freezing. My team went out on the field with so much energy and fire, we were ready to play. We decided that because one of our coach, Maddie, was sick that we would play and win the game for her.  In that first half I

scored one goal because I out played the girl and I made an assist which was a really cool assist to Gabi. In the first half we played with a lot of intensity making the score seven to zero for halftime. During halftime we decided to give Maddie the presents we made for her to get better. We gave Maddie a blanket that we tied the ends on and was SUPER soft, a card that everyone signed that said "We Love You", and we gave her a little poster that Corryne wrote a poem to go along with. The poem was really good and it told Maddie how her presents helps us become better players and how much we appreciate her. By the end Maddie was choked up because she was really having a hard time lately. Maddie had to leave but we still had the fire to play for Maddie and our other two coaches, Laurel and Elle Mango. Laurel and Elle Mango pumped us up and got us ready for the second half which I was super excited to play in. We went out on the field and played really well the second half considering we were all so cold. We didn't play as hard as the first half but we did manage to take the ball down to X and and keep it consistently moving. In the second half we scored four more goals but were scored on two times but we still had a lead that was up by nine. I managed to score one goal in the second half. I will admit it wasn't my cleanest game but it was a good game for me. I got called on a lot, I think in the first half I was called probably five times and same with in the second half. In the end we played good, had a fun time, and won for Maddie so what more could you ask for.

The Fight Against Juan Diego

My first real game of the season was on Wednesday and it was against Juan Diego. It was so much fun. This was technically my first game of my entire high school. I liked that my first ever high school game we won and I scored two of our nine goals and had two pretty cool assists. My first goal was in the first half and was left handed so that makes me feel very accomplished. I started with my stick in my left hand and rolled and switched left and beat my defender leaving a clear path to the goal where I kept repeating "place your shot, place your shot" in my head. I had to think about placing my shot because lately in practice or other games I just rip a shot but the ball goes directly toward the goalie which makes it super easy to catch because it goes right into the goalies stick or they get the ball bounced off of them because it hits their body. My first assist was to my teammate Jade in the first half and she caught the ball and ripped it to cage hitting the net. I wasn't at X when I threw the ball to Jade which are usually the best assist but I still got the assist because Jade can rip a really fast and hard shot. My second goal was an assisted goal which passed to me by Marissa who gave me a great throw that I took and ran to cage with. My second assist was behind cage at X where I saw Kinley run through and I through it to her and she threw in a fake that made the goalie

This is me playing at our game

disoriented and threw it to the net. In the first half my team was up five, zero, because we were up by so much my coach applied a rule that we had to make every goal an assisted goal because she noticed a lot of people were running than taking a shot that didn't involve any teamwork because there wasn't one pass and our coaches like to say that the ball is faster than a runner so we started passing more in the second half and came together as a team and still beat the other team. Our defense held strong in the first half and let no one pass them and had some great double teams and getting back to their player as soon as their double team was over. Second half our defense still played super good but we started to slip a little and got confused every once in a while about who was playing what but in the end we came together as a team and won our game. But of course not everything was sunshine and rainbow's, before we left Park City we couldn't find a lot of JV and Varsity's uniforms and that is really serious because if your whole team doesn't have the same uniforms you can be disqualified. Luckily a few of JV's uniforms were in our teammate, Caityn's, car and we got them back. We found Varsity's in our coaches car but we left half an hour later but luckily we played good even after the mishap before the game.