AN
ONGOING
SUCCESS
STORY
It is 4:30 p.m. on a cloudy
Friday afternoon. A light
drizzle dampens the field
but not the spirits of the F.C.
Footsters, the University
women’s soccer team, as
they practice for an upcom
ing game.
Despite recent financial and coaching
problems, dedication and personal
sacrifices have turned this close-knit team
into a winning group that is currently
undefeated in the Eugene City Women’s
League, said team captain Julie Rostron.
Problems began early this year when the club
sports team was unable to find a sponsor to pay $175 in
league fees. But instead of calling it quits, the players
chipped in to cover the costs themselves, said Rostron.
“Everyone was so enthusiastic (about playing) they
contributed personally,” she said.
Finding coaches who are willing to donate their
time and energy to the team has been an ongoing pro
blem over the past few years because the position is
strictly voluntary and is very time demanding.
“In the past three years, since I’ve been on the
team, I’ve seen five different coaches,” Rostron said.
The girls “showed a lot of dedication” to stick it
out through the transitional periods, she said.
But the team is very happy with their new coach,
Lori Kats, who has been with them since last winter.
“I am kind of strict,” Kats admits. “I push them a
lot. The team knows how to play, it is just a matter of
fine tuning,” she said.
Dedication is further tested each fall when the
players are asked to return from their summer vacations
two weeks early in order to take part in the team’s “dai
ly double” training program.
“But no one minds,” said Rostron. “We all have a
good time,” and it lets the team get reacquainted before
the first fall game, she said.
“We get a lot of encouragement from each other,”
she added.
“The team is really close,” said team member,
Shonna Smetana. “We do a lot of things together, and
several of the girls are roommates.”
Smetana feels this personal comaraderie helps the
(above)Liana Neff, of the University women's soccer team, races an opponent from the Queens to the ball in a
recent city league match, (below leftJGretta Flatt gets in the thick of another winning battle last week for the
University club sport team.
players work well together and has contributed to the
success of the team.
The team is “very dedicated,” agreed Rostron.
“Sometimes, I feel like we make personal sacrifices (to
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play),” she said. Classes, studying and soccer practice
can become “very time demanding,” she admits.
“There are a lot of very talented women on the
team,” Kats said. “When they play together it is
beautiful to watch.”
The team is kept busy throughout the school year.
During the spring soccer season they compete in the
Eugene league, which they entered five years ago and
have since finished among the top two teams each
season.
“Right now people really want to play for the fun
of it,” she said. "Winning is funner,” she smiles.
The team just returned from a four day invitational
tournament at Stanford in which they were the only
team asked to compete from Oregon. But despite high
hopes, the team just could not "pull it together.” They
finished sixth out of six teams, Kats said.
"We just ran out of gas,” she said. "It was just one
of those tournaments that didn't work,” she admits.
Regardless, the team "still had fun,” she said.
During the fall soccer season the team plays in the
Northwest Soccer Conference Division. And since 1977
they have finished among the top competitors.
Kats said the team did not do as "well as they
should have” last fall however. Their previous coach
had a “hard time communicating with the team at their
level,” and it affected their performance, she said.
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