Inside The Circle - Week 3
10/3/2002 8:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Oct. 3, 2002
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Welcome to "Inside the Circle," a weekly inside look at Maryland field hockey. Each week throughout the 2002 season, senior Kateri Simon (Fallston, Md.) and junior Kristin Harris (Lititz, Pa.) will combine to bring you the latest Terp happenings from the student-athlete's point-of-view.
Use Kateri and Kristin's journal to follow the Terps' 2002 campaign all season long. If you would like to submit question to our authors about field hockey, the Terps or anything (within reason!), send us an e-mail.
This week, Kateri tells us that the Terps are riding high as they passed the halfway point of the regular season. But now is not the time to be complacent, she reports, for a long road still lies ahead.
Well hello everyone. The feeling is just awesome. After this past weekend's two games against Princeton and Cal-Berkeley we are feeling good. But about a week ago we played VCU and despite the win we felt like we were missing something. Missy recognized that we needed something to lift our emotions a bit and inspired us in practice last week to begin the rest of the season with a fresh start, more excited and energized to play the game we love. At Princeton, we showed that energy in a hard fought battle for seventy minutes. Although we didn't play consistently well throughout the entire match, we worked hard and stayed focused for the length of the game. Princeton is a talented team and we definitely earned the victory. That night began with an eerie feeling because the skies we overcast with fast moving dark clouds that looked like they were going to pour down on us at any moment. Luckily, we stayed dry for most of the game, but the winds and the sky set a strange mood that gave me a lot of energy.
And then on Sunday, against Cal, we kept our excitement going as we started having fun again. We were all over the circle and in front of the goal during the second half. There should have been more balls put over that line, but it was still a great time trying! And maybe even better than the fun hockey we played on Sunday, was the food at the tailgate after the game. Yum yum... Thanks parents, you are all wonderful (but not just because of the food).
So I think as we go into each game from now on we need to remember how it feels to play with uninhibited excitement and how it feels to play just for the love of the game and for the sweat and pain and misses and goals that all come along with the sport.
