Coach Speak: Women's Soccer Coach Dave Reyelts

Record Breaking Weekend

This was a record breaking weekend for St. Scholastica. In football, we had a whole bunch of "first-evers" including a record attendance for a CSS event at 3500 fans in the Homecoming game against Crown College. On to soccer, where the records were falling faster than the snow on Halloween '91! First was the career record for game- winning goals, Robin Johnson (Sr- Duluth Marshall) whose 14 game winning goals overtook Keely Raab (CSS '06, Duluth East) for the career lead. Then Robin scored 3 goals on the weekend to move within one goal of the school record for goals in a career with 57. Robin also overtook Jen Seip (CSS '05, Duluth Central) for shots in a career with 312 shots (and she is 7 shy of the record for shots on goal with 161). Johnson is also now alone in 2nd place at 147 points in a career. She is 7 shy of Jen Seip's record of 154. On Sunday, the Saints attempted 63 shots on goal, which is a new record for shots attempted in a game. The 34 shots on goal were the 2nd most all-time (the record is 38) in CSS history. On Saturday, the Saints had the 2nd most corner kicks taken in a game at 15.


The Road Ahead

We now begin our second time through the conference teams. We host Bethany Lutheran and then Martin Luther College next Friday and Saturday. Then two weeks on the road, followed by a Halloween contest with Northland College (who fittingly has orange as its dominate color). It is important that e stay hungry, have good practices, and we do not lose sight of the prize at the end of the tunnel. Along the way, we have to keep our head down and keep plugging away... a loss or tie, could be very damaging to our chance at making the NCAA tournament.

Days Off, Re-energize, Re-focus, Re-v It Up

We are off the next two days. I decided to give our ladies the day off tomorrow, and then Tuesday is their scheduled day off. We have been going non- stop since mid August with little time off. I just had the feel that we could benefit from 2 days rest... we will see how effective it is at 6am on Wednesday, when the lights at PSS turn on for our Wednesday practice... cold rain, and before sunrise will pose some challenges for us... excited to see how we respond. This team has been surprising me all season, so lets see what Wednesday brings!