By William Smith – Staff Reporter 

The Jonathan Law girls soccer season kicked off on September 14.

On September 29, the team picked up its their first win of the season over Career. Law’s next game will be away against Foran High School on October 6 at 7 p.m.

“If the girls continue to work hard and implement what we are working on in practice, we can start winning more games and become more confident each day,” head coach Mr. Rodriguez said.

The team has seen changes in personnel this season – including Rodriguez taking over as the interim head coach for Mrs. Francisco – and they lost several starting players to graduation. 

“I feel like this season is a little different than others because of the amount of seniors who graduated and we have a new head coach,” senior captain Shelby Green said. “But just like the others every day the team is expected to go 110 percent in practices and games, so I feel this season if we can keep that mentality we will be able to achieve our goals as a team.”

The team still has a lot of growth ahead of it and the players are continuing to work together on the field.  

“I would say the team’s biggest challenges are working the ball up the field as a cohesive unit; we need to focus more on our offensive runs and organization up top as well as in the back as far as stopping through balls,” senior captain Avery Frank said “I think that if we can strengthen up our core and start possessing the ball more and showing movement on and off the ball which will create more opportunities, we can be more successful this season.”

Junior goalkeeper Sabrina Lawless said she believe the team will only get better as the season goes on.

“I would say some of the biggest challenges our team has faced this season is trying to keep a positive attitude due to our losses, but I know we are capable of doing better because of the talent we have, we just have to work together and work hard,” Lawless said. “We have started off a little rocky but once we start working together as a team, as I said before, I know we will finally start playing to the level we can play at and finish with some wins.” 

One of the big reasons the team had seen so much difficulty on the field was they were constantly changing formations and player positions. 

“We have already had a few games and they haven’t gone the way that we wanted or hoped for them to go, but with this new formation that we are starting I am optimistic that we will come out stronger and be able to hold down our defense better to not have goals scored on us,” junior Demi Carrapico said. “My hope is that we look at our mistakes that we did in previous games and notice what we did wrong so we can work on improving ourselves and have more wins under our name for our games coming up in the future.”