Wednesday, September 22, 2010
"White is the New Black"
Not only are we the Hendrix College Warriors, we are most certainly road warriors too—we have been on the road for the last 7 + hours, and have spent much of the past weekend on the bus! Luckily, our bus driver, Wayne, is really nice and a pretty good driver too. We have found strange ways to entertain ourselves, from watching Goosebumps to singing a horrid rendition of Lean on Me and if we get really bored, we might even do our homework and study. Sometimes.
The 2010 season is well underway!
It started out hot and steamy (quite literally) and because we reside in good ole Arkansas, this has pretty much continued. We all met at the library to have our first team meeting and it was great to see everyone again! Before getting out on the field we had to take a mandatory baseline concussion test. We made it through, but if anyone gets a concussion and has to take it again….well…good luck with that. Our first days of practices were full of sweat, blood, and tears. Okay, so maybe nobody was crying, but we welcomed the challenge of getting back together and playing again, and we all had great vibes after the first day. This year it finally felt like it was all coming together and we were playing with a lot of energy and cohesiveness.
This seemed to pay off quickly for us as we ventured on over to Memphis to play Rhodes in a scrimmage after the first week of school. We played 3 20 minute periods and managed to come out on top 3-1, with goals from Maggie, Abby, and Savannah. After the game we went to Central BBQ in Memphis before heading home for shirttails! We were a very happy team.
Our next trip was to St.Louis where we faced off against Lindenwood. We always love playing Lindenwood because it’s a competitive and fun atmosphere, and we were ready. The day before the game we went to Maggie’s house where we were treated like champions with delicious Qdoba. YUMMY. Thank you DesPain family! It should also be noted that Ellie faced off with various members of our team in foosball, and may have lost. Several times. We also played ping pong and pool. We love team-bonding! As for the game, we played hard but realized many things that we needed to work on. It was a good learning experience, and we knew we would get to play them again the next week—this time at home.
The next weekend we had our home opener! Of course, we all woke up to pouring rain, so we had to wait a little longer to play. Once we finally took the field we were sweating from humidity and ready to dominate. The game was better this time, even though we still lost 1-2 (with a goal from Heather). Still, we slowly seemed to be grasping concepts and tactics that we had been practicing, so we felt pretty confident headed into conference play.
With another week of practice we continued to work together as a team. We focused on support play, channeling, communication, and other parts of our game that needed some extra work. Before heading off for our trip to Kentucky we made sweet tye-dye shirts at Liz’s apartment. She made us delicious chicken and pasta (well done, Liz!) complete with Hershey’s kisses.
Viva la Kentucky. Dear Kentucky, you are far away. We got locked and loaded for our 9ish hour bus ride to Kentucky on Thursday! Most of the team brought gifts for their secret sisters (a field hockey tradition—similar to Secret Santa) so we could get pumped for the trip ahead! We also began the epic murder mystery game. We play this game on all long road trips and it’s always fun to see who is the “murderer” and how they “kill” everyone else. We draw paper from a hat, and the person who has a dot on their paper has to be the murderer. Their task is to kill each person on the team throughout our trip. They have to do so in secret so they do not get caught. This year, Kelly was the murderer, and she did a pretty decent job. Some of us died choking on food, getting hit by the bus, or even by killing each other. Needless to say, we get some weird looks at restaurants and public places.
Our first game on the road trip was a night game under the lights! We played Centre, and went into halftime tied 1-1. Abby scored the first goal off a beautiful corner, directly into the right corner of the cage. Our defense played well, but Centre managed to find a way to the back of the net two more times. Ali had some amazing saves, and the goals scored were not overly impressive; we know we can stop them in the future. We were disappointed in the result of the game, we knew that it was much closer than a 3-1 loss, but we knew we had to look ahead to our game on Sunday vs. Transylvania.
We did not have a game on Saturday, so we went on an adventure to the mall in Lexington. No surprise, we all managed to spend more money than we wanted, and all ran into each other at Victoria’s Secret. Go figure. We had a good dinner at Johnny Carino’s later that evening, and then followed dinner with a good game of catch phrase! Kelly had some interesting impersonations of a bird, wildly exclaiming, “kakakakakakaka!” as we tried to figure what in the world she was talking about. This is quite normal for a field hockey road trip.
The next morning we traveled to Transylvania University and played at noon. Maggie scored a nice goal in the first half to take us into halftime with the 1-0 lead. We knew we had to play better and stronger, and that we couldn’t let the grass change our game entirely. Within the first 5 minutes of play in the second half, we scored THREE goals—one from Lauren, two from Kelly. It was exactly the jumpstart we needed. The rest of the half was played within our offensive 25 (in between the 50 yard line and our 25 yard line) and we had plenty of opportunities to score. Ali did manage to touch the ball two times—yay shutout! We need to finish games entirely—the full 70 minutes—and as long as we do this we will be successful this season.
As for our return home, we are still going. The ride continues. Sometimes it feels like we will never leave the bus. But, we do love field hockey. ROAD TRIPS!!!
We are excited about the direction of the season and of our team, and can’t wait to see all of you parents coming out for Parent’s weekend! We are playing Rhodes, so BRING IT ON.
Love,
The Hendrix field hockey team
(Heather)
The 2010 season is well underway!
It started out hot and steamy (quite literally) and because we reside in good ole Arkansas, this has pretty much continued. We all met at the library to have our first team meeting and it was great to see everyone again! Before getting out on the field we had to take a mandatory baseline concussion test. We made it through, but if anyone gets a concussion and has to take it again….well…good luck with that. Our first days of practices were full of sweat, blood, and tears. Okay, so maybe nobody was crying, but we welcomed the challenge of getting back together and playing again, and we all had great vibes after the first day. This year it finally felt like it was all coming together and we were playing with a lot of energy and cohesiveness.
This seemed to pay off quickly for us as we ventured on over to Memphis to play Rhodes in a scrimmage after the first week of school. We played 3 20 minute periods and managed to come out on top 3-1, with goals from Maggie, Abby, and Savannah. After the game we went to Central BBQ in Memphis before heading home for shirttails! We were a very happy team.
Our next trip was to St.Louis where we faced off against Lindenwood. We always love playing Lindenwood because it’s a competitive and fun atmosphere, and we were ready. The day before the game we went to Maggie’s house where we were treated like champions with delicious Qdoba. YUMMY. Thank you DesPain family! It should also be noted that Ellie faced off with various members of our team in foosball, and may have lost. Several times. We also played ping pong and pool. We love team-bonding! As for the game, we played hard but realized many things that we needed to work on. It was a good learning experience, and we knew we would get to play them again the next week—this time at home.
The next weekend we had our home opener! Of course, we all woke up to pouring rain, so we had to wait a little longer to play. Once we finally took the field we were sweating from humidity and ready to dominate. The game was better this time, even though we still lost 1-2 (with a goal from Heather). Still, we slowly seemed to be grasping concepts and tactics that we had been practicing, so we felt pretty confident headed into conference play.
With another week of practice we continued to work together as a team. We focused on support play, channeling, communication, and other parts of our game that needed some extra work. Before heading off for our trip to Kentucky we made sweet tye-dye shirts at Liz’s apartment. She made us delicious chicken and pasta (well done, Liz!) complete with Hershey’s kisses.
Viva la Kentucky. Dear Kentucky, you are far away. We got locked and loaded for our 9ish hour bus ride to Kentucky on Thursday! Most of the team brought gifts for their secret sisters (a field hockey tradition—similar to Secret Santa) so we could get pumped for the trip ahead! We also began the epic murder mystery game. We play this game on all long road trips and it’s always fun to see who is the “murderer” and how they “kill” everyone else. We draw paper from a hat, and the person who has a dot on their paper has to be the murderer. Their task is to kill each person on the team throughout our trip. They have to do so in secret so they do not get caught. This year, Kelly was the murderer, and she did a pretty decent job. Some of us died choking on food, getting hit by the bus, or even by killing each other. Needless to say, we get some weird looks at restaurants and public places.
Our first game on the road trip was a night game under the lights! We played Centre, and went into halftime tied 1-1. Abby scored the first goal off a beautiful corner, directly into the right corner of the cage. Our defense played well, but Centre managed to find a way to the back of the net two more times. Ali had some amazing saves, and the goals scored were not overly impressive; we know we can stop them in the future. We were disappointed in the result of the game, we knew that it was much closer than a 3-1 loss, but we knew we had to look ahead to our game on Sunday vs. Transylvania.
We did not have a game on Saturday, so we went on an adventure to the mall in Lexington. No surprise, we all managed to spend more money than we wanted, and all ran into each other at Victoria’s Secret. Go figure. We had a good dinner at Johnny Carino’s later that evening, and then followed dinner with a good game of catch phrase! Kelly had some interesting impersonations of a bird, wildly exclaiming, “kakakakakakaka!” as we tried to figure what in the world she was talking about. This is quite normal for a field hockey road trip.
The next morning we traveled to Transylvania University and played at noon. Maggie scored a nice goal in the first half to take us into halftime with the 1-0 lead. We knew we had to play better and stronger, and that we couldn’t let the grass change our game entirely. Within the first 5 minutes of play in the second half, we scored THREE goals—one from Lauren, two from Kelly. It was exactly the jumpstart we needed. The rest of the half was played within our offensive 25 (in between the 50 yard line and our 25 yard line) and we had plenty of opportunities to score. Ali did manage to touch the ball two times—yay shutout! We need to finish games entirely—the full 70 minutes—and as long as we do this we will be successful this season.
As for our return home, we are still going. The ride continues. Sometimes it feels like we will never leave the bus. But, we do love field hockey. ROAD TRIPS!!!
We are excited about the direction of the season and of our team, and can’t wait to see all of you parents coming out for Parent’s weekend! We are playing Rhodes, so BRING IT ON.
Love,
The Hendrix field hockey team
(Heather)
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