After we won the JV championship on Monday the season for my JV girls was over. But it meant for me that I could focus 100% on varsity. We beat Riverton Friday in the quarterfinals. That meant we had to face Bingham on Wednesday. The game was at Judge Memorial Stadium – a very nice turf field. It was pouring without any break. After five minutes of warming up everybody was soaked. The balls kept slipping out of our sticks and it was freezing cold. All in all terrible conditions for the game, but it had a little dramatic feeling with it: Warming up in the rain, playing in this beautiful stadium, music…
We got together for our team goals and at this point it was clear that everyone wanted to win this and nobody cared about prom plans they made on the day of the finals. Then the coaches talked to us. They told us to “shake it off and step up.” As a reminder everybody got a piece of paper with “Step up” on it which we stuck in our socks. Then we lined up and the starters were announced.
The game wasn’t our best game. We kept losing the ball and at half time we were down by 3:6. We actually started motivated in the second half, but Bingham seemed to be more determined to win the game and scored three goals on us in only a few minutes. We called a timeout and Andrew asked us to decide now if we want to win this game or if we gave up. Obviously we wanted to win this game, because we scored three goals and came back to 6:9, but Bingham was good in keeping ball position and the clock was running against us. We lost the game and the chance to play in the finals of the state tournaments, but it was an amazing season that was worth everything. After the game we came together and almost everyone was crying, not because we lost, but because it was our last game together.
Since February I spent every day with lacrosse and those girls. It was an amazing time!


Varsity at the banquet