I realized I haven't updated this blog all week since Monday. Sorry to all my followers. Anyway it has been an eventful week. I've had a cough for about two weeks now and it just started getting real bad midweek. I had a fever in the nights and just really didn't feel good at all. I finally went to the doctor on Friday and got two cough prescriptions. Hopefully by Monday I'll be feeling better.
On Wednesday we traveled to McDaniel College in Maryland. They have a losing record and to be honest, we were supposed to win handily. We lost 3-0... They scored on three set pieces and we could just not get lucky with a goal even though we basically dominated possession in both halves. It was also very unfortunate that earlier in the week coach established a rule that if we get scored on, on a set piece, we would have to run a lapper. (A lapper is when the team splits into two groups and as the first one jogs, the second group sprints around the field to catch the first group and then the other group goes. You basically sprint a whole field and a half. It's awful.)
So Thursday practice came along and we ended up running three lappers and more: hills, full fields, pushups, sit-ups, etc. We scrimmaged with a lot of intensity and the team was really working hard. Practice ended up lasting about three hours and the whole team was exhausted by the end. Hopefully that work effort will show up in today's game at Juniata.
Juniata is a very important conference game. It's three and a half hours away just for one game. I heard their field is awful, the refs will be awful, and its just going to be a sloppy, but we have to win. These next three games are the most important with three conference games and we need to be undefeated this week in order to set us up for a post-season Conference tournament run and hopefully NCAA bid.
Classes have been going well. Calculus is the best I would say. In Engineering we designed a prosthetic foot and wrapped it in composite materials. It's is going to be put in a vacuum and then hopefully we will have created a prosthetic foot. It was cool because we were working with carbon fiber and glass fiber and the stuff was really cool.
Now I need to get ready and head to the Duf to get on the bus. Here comes a long day of travel and hopefully all for a victory!
-TZ
