I think we got a little greedy with the women's soccer team.... actually more so spoiled. They can't win every year, and being the 2-seed in the conference tournament in a year where they made some national powers work for wins.
This was a good group of kids who worked as hard off the field as on it. I'll never forget two years ago, when I saw two players hustle down to the field before a big game with their bags, whip them off and get into uniform just in time to play. They had come from class, which is always first and foremost at Central.
"We'd be hypocritical if we said, now you can miss class," CCSU coach Mick D'Arcy told me before the Devils left for the tourney . "If we have a game at 3 p.m. and they have a class at 1, they go to class from 1-2. They're supposed to go dressed in their gear and come right down. We try not to change anything now that we've been doing all year."
They didn't, and it's a commendable thing. Next week I'll be writing about all their academic awards. They are what student-athletes are all about.
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