Bridgette Adorno's Diary

The spring season came at us full swing this year. We were not prepared with what lay ahead of us, yet, we were able to pull through and end the spring on top. Like always, the season started off with...yep, you guessed it...fitness. I don't think anyone really forgot, especially me, since I was able to sprain my ankle tripping on the metal bar surrounding the track. Anyway, after about a month of fitness we started playing with a soccer ball, and it felt like Christmas. Moreover, we had five playing dates to look forward to, which also felt like Christmas since we were very excited to play with teams other than ourselves.

Our first day of playing consisted of three matches. After working hard all day and brushing off our rusty game cleats for the first time since November, Callie's family had cooked the whole team BBQ. And it was so delicious...I think I ate almost a whole bottle of their homemade BBQ sauce by myself. Our journey that started at five in the morning ended in our locker room at ten o'clock that night.

Now we were focused on our next match against McNeese State, which was the following week. We played four 30-minute quarters. Unfortunately, in the last quarter McNeese State was able to score one goal to win the match. Of course, we were all very mad that they beat us for the first time ever, but we knew we would get another chance to play them. However, we still had a tough week ahead of us.

It felt like déjà vu when we played Northwestern State the next week. Again in the last quarter, they scored on us to win by one. And again, we knew we would see them later. So far, the spring was weighing our confidence down and somehow we needed to step it up. The best part of spring finally came: 7v7 tournaments!

It was the Second Annual Ragin' Cajuns 7v7 tournament (well, it started out 8v8 but was later changed). Many teams were there including our two awesome teams, Louisiana-Monroe, Houston, William Carey, the Alumni team, and not one but two McNeese State teams, which meant more of their girls crying after they lost! Like what we expected, UL won the tournament!! Whoo Hoo!! We defeated both of the two McNeese State teams, one which was in the finals. Showing them whose boss got us pumped up for Northwestern State's tournament. Although we did not win their tournament we came in second to La. Tech. Yep, that means Northwestern State did not even make it to their own finals. Actually, our two teams defeated, their A-Team, B-Team, AND their alumni team. Revenge tastes so sweet.

That concluded the spring season but let's not forget those painful days with Coach Rob. He helped push us with weights and has made us stronger. And we look GOOD. Also, I don't know about you guys but I definitely liked our last practice, even though all the other practices were pretty cool... I guess. But the slip-n-slide, water balloon, and popsicles were the bomb. Hopefully, coach liked that idea and we can start off preseason just the way we ended it.

Until August...Geaux Cajuns!

P.S. The best BBL team this season was the “Pee Chart #9” team, even though we only played like 3 nights of BBL... In case people do not get why we were called that, it is because we wore yellow jerseys...

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