is like all conference all section in all with beal so how do you think that they judged those awards how do you think they gave them out people well i think it's like a group of like the coaches come together and basically just decide like who's like in their opinion like the best out of like their section in the weight below which is like basically all of like the schools combined in the big fifty six is really just like kind of like an all would be all thing it's new like the past two years so really not familiar with that too much but i think it's basically just like the coaches coming together and deciding who they think in their opinion well congratulations for being here so what was it like to receive one this year well it's an honor to receive them actually like i mean i think it's just like something that people like work for and like it's just kind of like a thing where you strive to get to towards like the end of the season and just receiving it in like seeing all your friends from like other school districts i think it's just kind of like need to see that like they all come together and basically it's just like a big bang quickly we had it yesterday so the banquets just basically all the schools from like the pittsburgh area so you see like kind of all over the place  so whatever this is your third year did you receive any awards last year yeah last year i received the same as this year and then my freshman year i received all section and  it like to receive awards so early on in your high school career i think it's like pretty like need to see that because like being so young like you don't really expect to get to where you are in like obviously you look up to people so much like that are older than you so i think that like seventy example for the younger people and honestly like for like the people that are really coming up to see like where they can strive to be as well interesting so let's go back twenty first started playing soccer when did you first start playing i started playing probably the age of like maybe four or five so young you know pretty pretty young to start and i know you have older sisters that play soccer like how do you think them playing affected you going into the sport it made me like look up to them a lot growing up and like going to be like them obviously they play like sports like other than soccer but honestly like i just looked up to them being like the youngest of two water sisters they play in college now so it's just like it's great having older people to look up to you know how far do you think you would have gone with soccer if they wouldn't have played let's go question honestly like i think i still would have found like soccer being like one of my favorite things to do because i don't think it would have changed with anything my parents had always pushed me to play soccer but i think it's just like if you find something you're good at then stick with it so i think i would still be where i am now i mean i know i have two younger sisters myself and i feel like i play soccer and if i won have they might not have gone into that either so what other activities and sports and things to do whatever you were young  well i wasn't really like big into anything else besides soccer i mean i played basketball and i really didn't do anything else so i wasn't like the big dance or anything that can ever did that so i mean like i think i just found like soccer as being like something that i wanted to stick stick with for a while so i just did that too many regrets with do you wish you would have continued with other stuff yes and no i feel like if i would've stuck with other things that maybe i wouldn't have been so dedicated to saugor like i am today but then no because i don't know i just feel like if again if i pick something else maybe it would've been like back to back between the two sports so  well you're kept on this year as a junior going to a week or so like what was it like to be a cop tonight you're like how did you feel well when pat like told us that like it was like a big surprise and i just i wasn't like expecting to get that position honestly like i said you c junior and everything but i knew i had to step up and take one of the leadership roles with the seniors and everything but i was really honored to do that because usually you don't see that i was like and a junior even anything below that  so what was it like how did that change you and your personality is like stepping into that role well i it was kind of like nerve racking at first because like i was a junior and like having like the two seniors above me  i kind of felt like like just so you can say stuff just like kind of just let the seniors they do their own thing have their own senior year so like it was it was kind of hard to like balance between that and like having the seniors do whatever they do but i knew i had to like i was one person like i had to step up and take a leadership role and so for every high school season how do you like prepare and get ready usually i just run a lot in the summer i know club soccer usually leads up to like really close to one high school starts so that prepares me a lot but i usually just like run on my own and get ready for pre season and all the running that do it's a pretty hard  yet how what what what advice would you give for any new coming freshman how do i prepare for the tryouts probably definitely ask the upperclassman like what to expect because you don't want to go in there and just say like like i'll be fine like maybe they go out and like run with a group of people i think that actually helps a lot because you push yourself more when you're with other people very so but not for our next season we have a lot of new freshman coming in you'll probably take one of those leadership roles a gun what it what other advice you're going to give them just generally about the whole season honestly i would just give them like come in be positive just try your hardest and don't give up because honestly like when you don't give up it really shows and makes other people want to work harder when other people are working just as hard or even harder but yeah i would honestly just say work hard and do everything you need to do and be a team player so next season we'll be losing two of our seniors and gaming what i've heard like a lot of freshman how do you think that's going to impact our team i hope it would bring us closer i know bring healing were a big part of our team but looking at the bright side of things is at least it wasn't like a bigger group of people but they sure surely made a big impact so hopefully  think just like being positive and always like well you know work hard and know looking up to bree with like her knee injury and everything she never gave up hope or anything so honestly i really look up to her and s caitlin with her through all her injuries like it really just like makes the whole team just want to like push through whatever they're feeling you know have you yourself ever had on the injuries not any major ones knock on wood  maybe like an ankle injury here and there you know before my freshman year i had an ankle injury and it's just brutal coming in from club soccer and right in this high school and not having any time to heal but hopefully i won't have anything i would probably just say give it time and don't force anything whatever happens happens just keep playing obviously don't play through it if it's that bad but take some time off if you need to and heal yourself don't injure yourself even more and you were talking about club soccer earlier what club soccer team do you play for i play for be interesting so how do you think club soccer differs from high school soccer well i think you're together more with your team with club soccer just going all around kind of thing and then with high school i feel like you see each other more like throughout school and like you have like a kind of more like special bond i would say with like your high school team and it's kind of like you play for like your school so like it's it's pretty neat like coming to school and like hearing everyone i talking about like like how your team did like last night and like playing under the lights like i think it's just like a completely different atmosphere than cup said our coach and we all the teammates have said like our team is really good by gone and like we have a lot of chemistry how do you think that's affected our playing i think it just like pushes everyone like to want to play for each other and i know there's like really we didn't have any drama on the team or anything so i feel like having a lot of the team chemistry just like want to wants you to make sure like you play for like your friends like your best friends on th field you know we were all playing for each other until i go on game i was pretty upset in game how what would you have done differently in that game against percent clear honestly i wouldn't have done anything different i know you can't really change the past so  i mean we all played for each other that game i mean it was just like an unlucky game i feel like i wouldn't necessarily change anything but yeah i just feel like sometimes things happen like that it was i guess it wasn't meant to be for us and i'm game but yeah i mean i guess it just happens for a reason and i like one of our moon players were heard to and like how do you think that impact our playing up to that point i feel like after that happened i feel like there was only like maybe ten fifteen minutes left of the game so when that happened i feel like i was i know i was playing for her at that point with her being one of my best friends like i feel like not having on that field was just like something that it was like an empty space but i feel like we all just had to like work together in order to like try to like work to play for her and like when one of your teammates got her gets hurt especially when they're injured by the another te the whistle and like work hard give it like one hundred ten percent when you're out there like if your toddler just try to work through it like it's just like in your head that's what i always tell myself when i'm tired like on the feel like i just  myself just play through it like it's like on your head like you're not tired i just keep telling myself that so i would keep like saying to people just give it all you got in whatever happens happens that's kind of like what our coach was saying  for like how do you think his advice has helped our team and helped us grow as a person people individually i think like before the game especially got halftime you know put something into like our heads like that like wants us to like play for our each other in our school so like when like we're down maybe like one nothing at half time like i feel like he put something like into our heads it says like you guys like me to get together like play with each other play for each other i th like helps us as a team he's always been really going to pop talks like i hope next year that we can like just use that advice and like do really well so whenever last year we had a lot of seniors and this year we've only had two you know we were we somehow going to get farther away this year why do you think that's like happening well i love the seniors last year that graduated and like i said i still talk to a lot of them but i just think like the team chemistry like wasn't there last year i feel like there were a lot of like cliques in the city in the seniors i feel i get carried on to the field and like to people like emotions but this year is just like completely different like everyone was friends everyone like came together like there were no like not really any like especially cliques so i feel like when you're like well you don't have any of that kind of stuff like philly it brings people together more you know we were definitely like a younger team this year and we're going to be even younger next year with all those new freshmen coming in and how do you think like young teams compared to older teams i think younger teams have more opportunity to do to get better through the years with each other rather than like order teams with like all seniors like they play like maybe one year together and it's either they're done in you know they really can't do anything the in the next year after that but the good thing about like our team is like we have opportunities to keep going with each other and develop over the years and like next year is your senior year how are you excited about going yeah i'm excited hopefully we can get done what we have had a lot of freshmen come in last year and a lot of them stepped up into positions towards the end of the season and that's really like the most important thing like if you don't play like throughout the season just keep working hard and like sometimes like people come in  make a difference right off the bat and hopefully that will happen you know so like there are only eleven girls can play at a time and there's a lot of girls that just sit on the bench what advice do you give to them to like keep them going and like hopefully someday soon let them a position honestly i would probably tell them to like never lose hope in yourself and like never like think of yourself as anything less than a player like a good player because everyone's a good player everyone has different qualities that some people don't have so honestly just like i would tell them to keep striving and not to give up on themselves so how do you think playing high school soccer has affected you as a person as a person i feel like it's made me very like independent and strong and i just think like it just made me into like a better team player i guess and competitive i guess too but yeah so what kind of games only tournaments do you have in clubs are for and how does that like to change with the high school season games and start so after after high school i go straight into club soccer and we usually have a tournament in north carolina so one takes place like maybe a month or two after right after high school season so it's really no gap you know like any breaks or anything so we went to north carolina two weekends ago so then after that we usually go to either vegas or disney so disney would have been this month december but we're not going this year we're going to vegas instead which is in march so after that we'll play maybe four games down in vegas and then come home keep practicing in state in the regionals and then hopefully nationals and that's how it was last year and then went back to high school then right back to high school so it's just a big circle  when we live in pennsylvania it's pretty cold here like half the time is it different playing in climates that are a lot hotter of course going like to disney i know at this time it's just like it's brutal like going from like the cold in like i know we played a team from l a last year and it was just crazy like seeing like these people like coming from like different like regions of the country and just like seeing them how they bond together it's just it's amazing like i don't know what they do you down there that's different from what we do here but it's crazy how talented they are because they're bombing different from ours i just feel like they they're together a lot more maybe they have like more practices than we do but  yeah it's just crazy seeing like seeing their team chemistry like work out on the field and even like into the individual efforts you know so like what are your club team like how is the chemistry there different from the pure science of soccer girls i think i've known like a lot of like my friends from b ling a lot longer and then people from peter's i know i didn't necessarily play with a lot of my age groups like my my junior class guy didn't play with them like throughout like like peter's like soccer i was always like playing with like green caitlin just because of my bi year but i mean it differs from just i guess the time you spend together in like the team chemistry and everything but yeah i feel like we had a lot of team chemistry and like something i've never seen before honestly so like for your club team whenever you guys like whenever they said that the years would be split up like the ones or twos thousands whatever how did that affect your team being split up like that so i always played with my proper age group but i was always playing with like you're above me so you need the seniors so whenever i was told it would be split up by birth year i'm a two thousand all  friends are ninety nine so i would have had to move down but my coach told me just to stay on this team like just you'll be fine like and i trusted him and i was i stayed with my team in last year we won regionals and then went to nationals together also intelligence thank you and so that was a really big year but then this year just because of like college looks and everything i moved on my proper age group so now i'm with the two thousand so which is the juniors how are you liking compared to your old team it's a lot different i miss like all my friends i've been playing that with them since i was eight or nine years old on the playing like it's different not seeing them all the time but again it's it's nice to have like a different team again and like maybe like one accomplish the same goals as my other team how do you feel like the games against your program are different than the older cleats at level like the next year a lot of them were just like crazy like michigan state penn state do girls like it's just crazy seeing like all the competition like you see the same competition in like the younger age groups but i think it's just different seeing like maybe the two years ahead actually last year but yeah you see like the same things just it's crazy that they're the same age as you and they're just insanely good and it's funny how like even during high school season the were like already committed or playing with like freshman so the marching really got like a big glance like i know last year seeing those older girls that were like already committed to college is just crazy how do you think that affects the players like looking up to the older girls already committed i think it just makes them like want to be a better player in look up to them and want to be just like them and maybe want to play in college and pursue like something in college just like i know like that's how i was with my sisters when they like they both went to kent state play soccer i just like i wanted to do that like immediately like i knew like i wanted to go play soccer in college do you know were there any figures you looked up to as a child like that you admire i always looked up to him and alex morgan i love them like from the start i know me and him just like set like kind of like a assess a line for like women's soccer and i know like before like she was on like the national team like it like women's sports weren't really like valued enough like once like they like accomplished what they did like i feel like at like really they brought like girls like sports like to a higher standard so like after your senior year are you looking to play like where in college i still haven't decided i still have like some things narrowed down but honestly just like comes down to like how far i want to go away from home and like what i want to do with my career and everything but i haven't really decided where yet i just have to narrow it down i guess what are the schools that you've come in there and it down to i really like to being in ten it's in new york it's like a really good school has a lot of like career opportunities so that's like one of the pop most like top things in my my opinion i've been looking at is a viewer sin ohio arm you which is really close  and then things as far away as like winthrop i don't know if you know where that is it's in south carolina and well so like i'm kind of like everywhere with close to home really far away so that's a tough decision  what stuff are you looking into for your career like how's that going to impact so i i really want to do something in like the medical career and like health but i don't know if i want to be a nurse or anything like that so i kind of want to narrow it down even you do go to college are you going to is it going to be hard for you to balance soccer and school work like how do you think that's going to factor playing i think it will definitely affect the academic side i know talking like my sister when she goes to can play soccer and is going to be a nurse like oh i just don't know how she does it she's like a three point nine right now like being a nurse studying to be a nurse and playing soccer at the same time they guy just avoid hard yeah and it's a really hard profession to get into obviously but yeah i think it'll definitely be challenging i just have to learn to balance my academics in my sports which i've been doing for a while now so hopefully it'll carry out to college how have you been doing that like throughout high school has it been really hard to like balance academics and sports it's been difficult like especially during high school season like with practice every day of the games every other day sometimes like sometimes it's hard to sleep getting back  home at like ten thirty eleven o'clock from games and having to study for the test the next day and sometimes it's a learn to pull an all nighter i mean but yeah i mean i guess it's just something that you have to learn to do i mean i guess it comes with playing to drop that but definitely it was definitely hard to bounce a job academics and sports so i mean high school soccer takes up so much time we were together every day  college do you think do you have aspirations to play to the next level like me or him the i mean that's always been like one of my favorite things like to look up to me a ham playing like in the national team and like that was my goal for the longest time and i did for a while like the one big development program and i went to like rhode island i did all those camps and everything and i got chosen to go to the germany one year and i just like now i'm looking at it like i just feel like it's like something that like is really like it's like a far goal and so i guess like if you really want to do that i guess you can pursue that but it's just like it's really hard to do that i guess like a lot of girls want to look up to them and like be them and there are so many good girls out there so i like looking out now and seeing all the good players just like the pittsburgh area like homework like all across america there has to be like a ton more so that's very hard but  i mean i guess if you really try you can do it so what you play like a lot of places you've said how do you think that's affected your playing just like looking out like being at different places with so much more competition and like looking up to like people i know playing in rhode island like the scamp for the d p i met like a lot of like good friends like i still like keep in touch with like people from like virginia like new york like they have like they're part of like a good area like has like really good talent it's like playing with like those kind of people just like pushes you to like want to be like kind of like them and take some of their things that they're good at and try to like put into your game well kind of words do you think they have over there like that those kind of places like to they go to war so i guess so i don't know i think probably some of the same things that we do here but maybe like different names to like maybe all conference they get like high school and everything  right 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