Wow. What a journey this semester has been so far. Everything has been happening so fast. The regular season is over, and we are on to the SEC Tournament next week.
This has been quite a season of highs and lows. There has been so much emotion packed into the last 5 months. The day I returned to the soccer field will forever be an amazing memory in my life. Losing to a few teams we shouldn’t have, falling a little short of what we wanted to accomplish so far – a low. And today I’m really having a hard time putting things into perspective, but I’m slowly regaining it back. What is really important? We play sports because we love the competition and we love our teammates and coaches and we really just love to play. But what happens when we aren’t good enough? What happens when we do fall short?
We’ve all heard the phrase winning isn’t everything, but in college and professional sports, it seems like it is. So much that after a bad loss or disappointing season, we feel lost and out of our real selves. If we want to be ourselves – our happy, fun loving, young college selves – it’s hard to do when everything is focused on winning.
But when it all comes down to it, attitude is everything. We may lose to teams we shouldn’t have, we may fall short of our goals, but there is nothing we can do about it. All we can do is look forward and play every game as if were the last game of the season, because it very well could be.
Auburn soccer has something big to prove next week. We have worked hard since the day our previous season ended, all for this moment -- postseason. We want to play as long as we can, we want our seniors to have as many games as they can. God has a plan for all of us, and we know that great things take time, so maybe this is the time for us next week, to prove once again that we can compete with anyone.
