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By Haylee Douglas

As the ACSC teams head off to their countries to play in the prestigious tournament, the girl's soccer team is left behind to watch them compete from a distance and support them through live streams and cheers.

Being on the girl's soccer team is possibly one of the best things about being involved in Dalat athletics. We get to form bonds with different grades, we get to run and cry together, and we get to have ice cream after training together. But the saddest part of girl's soccer is we have to wait through a whole other sports season until we get to go to ACSC. While watching the other teams go on ACSC through Instagram, we have to attend classes. While the different Season 1 sports are eating out, we eat the same Dalat cafeteria food. 

The only upside of being left behind in season 1 is that we get to watch whatever ACSC is going on at Dalat. So like the good team we are, we went to cheer on our volleyball boys. We made posters and screamed as loud as we could. But sitting in the bleachers made us long to go on our wonderful ACSC trip to Korea. With the ACSC fever going on around Dalat, my dreams became consumed with the thoughts of the girl's soccer team winning our ACSC.

When we saw that the boy's varsity soccer team had won, we were so happy and proud of them. But that only made us want to play soccer even more, hoping we could win too. Senior and captain of the girl's soccer team, Lauren Worten, said, "Sometimes I wish I were a boy, so I could go on ACSC first season." While senior and midfielder of the girl's soccer team, Joycelyn Fung, said, "I felt unwanted and belittled, #girlsplaysoccerfirstseasontoo." 

With all this said, hopefully, ACSC will one day consider moving girls' soccer ACSC to the first season so that we aren't left behind while all the other first-season sports teams go on to achieve great things at ACSC.

 

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