Thoughts.

So the Aness is having tryouts this week with Purple Valley coming up.

Should prove interesting; it’ll be a first taste of sorts for the freshmen of really good, intense play, and once the cuts start being made, we’ll have a pretty good idea of how the team’s shaping up for the coming season.

This year is the beginning. Last year, there were a couple hard decisions for the captains as far as who to take and who to leave, but it could be argued were they not playing favorites to an extent they would’ve had a few more roster spots to fill. I’m not saying that’s bad or good, but this year pretty much every spot will have to be won. Obviously you have your returning talents, but there are far more people on the bubble than spots on the A-team, and after that even you have people who think they’re on the bubble (and likely would’ve been in previous years) but aren’t even that close. We’re going to have a very competitive team, in many senses of the word.

Things are only going to improve, too; I forsee a continuing trend towards awesome freshmen and hard-working freshmen who make themselves threats in a year+ contributing to a program rivaling the likes of Brown, where they have a B-team capable of beating all but the best college teams in the region.

In any case, it’ll be interesting to see what calls the captains make. I don’t envy their position, but that it’ll be so hard to make final calls on who makes the team is a sign of great things to come.

Just gotta keep working towards that final goal. Nationals…

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