Girls Soccer Team Ends

Posted By Reporter On December 16, 2010 (10:52 am) In Sports

  It is just a little over a month since practice for the KIPP San Jose Collegiate Girls Soccer season started, but the team has already disbanded and the girls of the soccer team stopped playing and practicing.

  Juniors Olgaby Martinez and Cynthia Reyes spent weeks trying to round up enough members to even start the team. They made announcements at least once a week to the entire school or going around the classrooms.

  Over the past two weeks, the girls soccer team had decided to end the sport for the season. This is the first sport that had not finished its season this year. It is also the first sport that had so few members, which  was the main reason that soccer did not continue. They needed more players and people to practice. Adalem said,” I think the soccer team would have lasted if there were more players. If someone tries to make it again next year, I would join again.”

  This is not the first time soccer failed .It also did not make it a full season in 2009. Soccer was the least active sport and depended more on students. The reasons why soccer did not continue for the past to years were clear. The girls said they would plan out the practices and push harder for members. The team this year was loosely assembled. The soccer team started out with few members and many stopped attending practice or quit.

  There were members of the team who were looking forward to the games and went to almost all the practices. Junior  An Ha said,” I do not regret putting in the practice we did so far”. Many of the players quit before the season actually ended.

  Even though there is no more girls soccer team, the girls have the option to join the boys team and practice with them. Cheerleading tryouts have also been extended for the junior varsity team to let the soccer girls to have a chance to do a sport.

Article taken from The Wolfpack Chronicle - http://www.ksjcwolfpackchronicle.com
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Reflection:

This article does not have much of a lead. I can’t really tell what the slant on the story is, which makes it look like an extremely bland article. I also needed to get quotes from people outside of the soccer team to get the school’s overall view on its failure. Although I did get some good quotes from the main starters of the club, it would be helpful to include some from other students and Mr. Finch. The story also could have taken an emotional stance to make it more appealing in that way. I think that it was important to link it to the past year to show the progress of sports in our school. It was also different since most of the newspaper staff do not know other events of past years. I would also want to put something more about soccer next year, which I only dipped into a little bit.