It was a cold, snowy game.
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After not playing since 4th or 5th grade, Olivia decided to return to the soccer field, but this time as a goalkeeper. She started with her high school team (Loveland Indians) and continued on with club (United SC). She is rapidly improving, earning Player of the Week for her club team and more than anything else shows tremendous guts while in the net.
Pretty sure this is the first foul Olivia has committed in two seasons of play.
It is a ton fun (and at times a little stressful) to watch her play. Plus I get the opportunity to photograph more soccer. Here are photos from her club team games that I have been able to photograph.
at Boulder County
09/23/2017
at Boulder FC
09/16/2017
at Larimie, WY
09/09/2017
at FoCo Arsenal
08/26/2017
at Player's Cup
08/11/2017
vs Boulder FC
08/10/2017
I love the crisp focus on Kevin (#3) with the water drops falling off of him as he runs to join his team in the pre-kickoff huddle.
There were not a lot of great photos from this game. In part this is due to my having to leave at half-time to take an injured player to the emergency room to have his arm x-rayed. Fortunately it was not broken.
See more photos from this game in the WUSTL at Fontbonne 2014 photo gallery.
Heading up to Principia College for a night game, proved to be a good win, giving Joe Clarke his 400th career win, but the cold was nearly unbearable. The WUSTL Bears shut out the Principia Panthers 3-0 in a game that seemed to last forever. I'm pretty sure that was a result of the frost that started to cover the team's equipment by the end of the match. The cold night was not the most fun to shoot in, but 400 wins is a big milestone for Joe. Big congrats to him.
See all the photos in my Smugmug Gallery. Writeups about the game are available on both the Wash U. Bearsports page as well as Principia Athletics site.
I may not be huge into sports culture, riding the rollercoaster of emotions, ecstatic with every win, desolated with any loss, but I do get caught up in WUSTL soccer games. The match on Sunday was the perfect game to suck me in.
It was a beautiful day. Our annual senior game, celebrating the boys who I have watched grow from obnoxious freshmen. And it was Rochester. It is always fun to beat Rochester.
We were not even two minutes into the game when Rochester scored off a head ball around the six. It hurt because I train the keepers and any slight imperfection in their play I immediately take as my fault. I should have done better in training.
But our team is known to start slow and we have come back before. Now it was up to the field players to score, and my keeper to be flawless. The momentum build started slowly, but as we found our game so grew our confidence.
In the second half, the bears were pretty well controlling the game. It was hard to tell if rochester was trying to pack it in and hold onto a single goal lead, but with our play, scoring could not be far off.
Then a rather unlikely left footed shot came from a freshman that went into the game to help even the size and strength matchup. Henry hit a beautiful ball the found the far, top corner and we were tied. Only eight minutes left in regulation.
With the energy and play tilting for the Bears, everyone knew this was our game to win. However, time ran out. We were unable to get the winning goal in regulation, but overtime would work to our favor.
Then, a couple minutes into the first overtime and the original hero makes a poor pass back. One small error. Rochester capitalizes and our excitement is gone.
Read the full story on the Bearsports website.
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