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Champions at Heart

By Anonymous

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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