Julie Keslar writes about "What it means to be a Team"

During my experience at Kent, I have learned what it really means to be a team. To be a team, it takes a group of people who have the same goal and will stay with each other through thick and thin.  Everyday is not going to be perfect, and things may not go your way. Perseverance through the rough times, sore muscles, and busy school lives is something that I will use the rest of my life. Also having a team celebrate together when all the perseverance pays off is something I will never forget. With the up coming MAC games, it will take perseverance to pull out the victory. MAC games are what we look forward to each year.  The best and worst thing about the MAC is that anyone can win on any day. They are full of scrappy goals, overtimes, and are always a battle.  This year, the MAC championship is up for grabs for anyone in this conference.  We have the confidence that we could win it this year. Keeping in mind, the team who comes to fight on game day is the team that pulls out the W, no matter who we are playing. 

Building off of a great weekend

By Rob Marinaro
Head Coach

I think we have really stepped it up coming off of the St. Bonaventure and Marshall weekend. We learned a lot about ourselves against Marshall and how we need to play in order to succeed.

The way our team came out this past weekend is exactly what we'll need to be able to successful. We beat two really quality opponents in Cleveland State and Valparaiso. We'll take what we got from this weekend, move forward, and hopefully be able to add some more healthy bodies. And then we'll try to continue our high quality of play with a lot of high pressure and creating quality opportunities.

It was really nice to see Jessacca Gironda get player of the week, which was well deserved after getting to game-winners. Both of her goals came off of quality work by our entire team. Her first goal came off of our goalkeeper's punt, which was then flicked on by Stephanie Haugh for a great finish by Jess.

The second goal was great service from Stephanie, Madison Heltebran with a great header hit the post, and then Jess followed up like we've been asking our forwards to do. We've asked them to constantly stay in motion. It was nice to see that finally pay off and get us a very late, double-overtime win.

This weekend we are at the College of Charleston where we will play both Coastal Carolina and the College of Charleston. We don't know a whole lot about either team, which is actually kind of how we like it. It's a little different style of play by two southern teams. It will be nice to see some different opponents and to see how we can build off of a very nice weekend.