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Sarah Peters has been sharing time with jeanine Norstad as goalie this season.
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Peters says that she’s communi
cating with her defense along with
roaming her box, which has fos
tered her development as a goalie.
“This weekend, I was really com
municating with [the defense], ” Pe
ters said about Sunday’s 3-2 victory
over James Madison.
Junior sweeper Starr Johnson,
Oregon’s defensive leader, liked that
communication too.
“In that last win,” Johnson said, “
when we were excited, we talked a
lot, and that helped.”
The Ducks yielded only 11 shots
on goal in more than 80 minutes of
play against James Madison after
conceding two goals on two shots
early on.
“Our role is to communicate to
the team, because we can see every
thing, me playing sweeper and her
in the back,” Johnson said about her
teamwork with the goalies. “Com
munication is really big and we did
a good job of that against James
Madison.”
Perhaps the most intriguing part
of the goal-saving duo of Peters and
Norstad is the way they push each
other every day of the week. The
two have competed for playing time
since last year’s spring drills, ac
cording to Peters, and will continue
to compete for the rest of the season.
“It doesn’t seem to have changed
anything,” Peters said about playing
the most minutes. “If anything, it
just makes each of us work harder
in practice every day because we’re
both pushing each other: Me to keep
the position and her to get the posi
tion, but we’re always pushing each
other.” •
Steffen says competition between
the goalies is the best thing for them.
“I think she likes having a partner
to push her,” Steffen said of Peters.
“On one hand she likes that comfort
of starting, but at the same time I
think she feels better having some
body to push her, having somebody
to work with her, having somebody
to compete with.”
Peters and Norstad know all
about competition. Norstad played
for a top team in Norway before be
coming the Ducks’ first internation
al recruit; Peters spent time with
Washington’s state championship
club team in 1997. Peters was also a
member of the Woodinville High
track team, and holds school
records for javelin and shotput.
Peters’ coach thinks she has the
eagerness of a high school athlete,
but the dedication and determina
tion of a collegiate athlete. Ask her
about next Sunday’s home game
against Florida State — the Ducks’
first chance at a Top-25 team on
their home turf— and she lights up.
“I love playing at home,” Peters
said. “I like the atmosphere and the
people around the community, es
pecially the little girls who always
come to the games. It’s an awesome
feeling.”
Peters even speaks positively
about the road trip that the Ducks
just returned from, which included
losses to soccer powerhouses Duke,
Santa Clara and North Carolina.
“There were a lot of fans [at North
Carolina] and when we were walk
ing off the field they said, ‘Great
game Oregon,’” Peters said. “You
don’t get that in a lot of places. It was
awesome to play over at UNC.”
There are benefits to having two
solid goalkeepers, as Peters found
out when Norstad exited stage left
the past three games.
“I started to get sick,” Peters com
mented. “And I said, ‘I can’t get sick
now!”’
After Sunday’s Florida State
game, Sarah, with Norstad coming
back, you can get as sick as you
want.
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