Mandy Lim
The week after
the treasured spring break, the varsity soccer girls went on the long-awaited
ACSC trip to Morrison Acadmey in Taiwan.
They arrived at
the campus on Tuesday, April 9th and rested up before the big day- game
against MAK. Lethal: it’s a word that encapsulates what the girls will be as
they approach the first game of the tournament. It’s a word that Coach Frohlich
first mentioned during a practice, and it stuck with the girls ever since.
Their lethality shone through as each goal served as a stepping stone for the
next. In celebration of their 4-0 win, the girls gathered at an open spot on
campus and played some hilarious games.
The soccer girls
finished off the tournament with three wins and two losses, coming in fifth
place out of eight teams. Apart from the games they played, they made some
unforgettable memories with each other. On the field, the girls were
hardworking, strong, intimidating, and lethal. But off the field, they had
spontaneous dance parties, played telephone charades, made memes of each other,
drank bubble tea every night, played spicy UNO with miniature cards, raided a
nearby 7-Eleven store, turned into squealing pterodactyls, spilled each other’s
secrets, and bawled their eyes out together.
As Bethany Davis
(midfielder, 12) put it, “Although being on the field was fun, what was much
more memorable was all the time spent off the field together. Living together
and sharing memories made the week together much more than just playing
soccer.”
The girls came
home with a fifth place title on the record, but a first place title in their
hearts. They fought hard and pushed through to the end, but what they really
came away with were the memories that they made over the course of the trip.
The time the girls spent together and the bonds that they made with each other
can’t be replaced. What was truly
meaningful could never be represented by a trophy.
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