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Despite a season filled with disappointing calls, close games and just missing out on the NorCal regional playoffs with their Nov. 12 loss against Cosumnes River 4-0, the women on the Panthers’ soccer team ended the season with their heads held high and their close-knit bond intact.
“We’re always doing something together, [we’re] always bonding all the time,” says Vivian Lozano, 21, one of the team’s captains. “[Even] outside of soccer.”
While finishing the season below 500 with a record of 7-9-5, the individual talent on the team was certainly not the problem.
“I have the best players ever. That’s why my expectations were really high,” says Coach Jang-Ha Oh. “Usually my team was kind of like, some good players, some OK players, and some beginners, but this year I had all 22 players [who] can play at this level.”
“We can go toe-to-toe with the best in the conference,” says assistant coach Jonathan Brickner.
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“This is the year that we all had to fight for our positions,” says team captain Leeanne Beyers,
20. “Like last year, everyone had their set position, but this year there’s like three or four people that can play your position. So you really have to practice hard and show that you want to play that position.”
While the team’s many strengths were praised by the coaches and captains alike, the pressure from the coach to deliver was intense, team members said.
“I think he expects so much from us; he expects so much more from us,” Lozano says. “He puts a lot of pressure on us. I feel sometimes because we’re his ideal team.”
In the end it comes down to how many games are tallied in the win column and, despite the high level of talent on the team, the Panthers came up short this season.
“I have a great, great talented group of players,” Oh says. “But somehow, some games we didn’t play well.”