Girls’ soccer team bond “key to success” in 2014-2015 season

Perry girls’ soccer team has supported each other and bonded with each other more than they ever have in this 2014-2015 season. They had many bumps in the road with injuries and building up their offense and still they made it to playoffs, did their best and had an overall great season.

Perry’s varsity girls’ soccer team was deadlocked in a game 0-0 until Desert Mountain in the last few minutes of the game got the advantage and scored winning 1-0. It was the second game in playoffs and was a devastating loss.Despite the hard loss the first game of playoffs was against Perry’s rival the Pinnacle Pioneers. Last year the team lost the state championships due to an offside play that was not called by the officials. It was sweet revenge for this years team to dominate the field against their rival, winning 2-1.

Leading up to the playoffs the girls’ soccer team had quite a few games that went into overtime.

Senior team captain Makenna Dunn explains, “Were a second half team and so we would always come back in the second half and tie and have to go into overtime.”

It is evident that there were some bumps in the road on their way to the state championships, and though they did not make it all the way, it should be said that they still made Perry proud with all the hard work and dedication they put into their games and for redeeming themselves in their game against Pinnacle.

As the season has come to a close the team says goodbye to their senior players.

Junior Courtney Janda states, “We had a really good defense this year and now that they’re all leaving its going to be hard next year, because we don’t have many defenders that aren’t seniors.”

However Dunn has a lot of hope for next years team, “this is probably the best hard working team that I’ve worked with my hole high school career and I’m so excited because I know their going to win state next year.”

Dunn is happy with the girls’ 2014-2015 girls’ soccer team’s performance overall this season, “We definitely could have done better but as a team really grew from the beginning of the season to the end of the season.”

Janda makes a similar comment, “the team bonded really well right from the start and I think that really helped us we would cheer each other on from the side lines and helped the team playing on the field to work harder and boosted everyone’s energy.”