AASCA TEAM

elg1221 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:55 +0000

Our team consists of 16 players. Our captain for 2 years has been Alex Mekler. She has been playing soccer since little and her first AASCA was in 7 grade, now she is a senior. She plays a libero and thanks to her the players from the other teams dont score. Our sub-captain is Lara Carlow. She plays in front of Alex. She started playing with the team last year and has improved really good! Our right defense is Maude Pires. Her first AASCA was in 9 grade. Our left defense is Jana Atkinson and her first AASCA was in 8 grade. She was going to play as our goalie but couldnt because of her knee problems. Our center mid-fielder is Jessica Nunez and Nicole Lamas. This year was Jessicas first year in the team and Nicole’s was last year. Our left mid-fielder is Camille Garnier and she started to play with the team last year. I am the right mid-fielder and I started to play with the team last year. Our two forwards are Marian Fishman and Daniela Mekler. This year Marian scored 9 goals in the tournament and even won a trofee. Daniela played as goalie this year because our goalie, Melissa Rodriguez, broke her leg three days before the tournament. The subs are Ryan, Nadine Cordero and Ruve Pires. Our coach, JOse Manuel Artavia played for 15 years with the team Cartagines and has been the coach for the varsity team for many years. These team is the one who got in 3 place last year and this year in 2 place!!

AASCA TOURNAMENT

elg1221 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:15:51 +0000

On March 4, I went with my school’s varsity team to a soccer tournament in El Salvador. We arrived at 3:00 p.m. and then we went to the Hilton Princess Hotel. After they gave us our room key, Camille Marian and I went to unpack our bags. We were all really tired so we just when to the sauna and jacuzzi. At night we went to eat at subway. On wednesday we had training from 11:30 to 2:00 p.m. After we arrived to the hotel and went to the mall for 2 hours. When we got back, we all went to this salon to do an activity called “Ice break” were we get to meet the other teams. On thursday we had to wake up at 5:20 a.m so we could go have breakfast and then at 7:00 our bus left, Our first game was at 11:30 against Mazapan from Honduras and we beat them 3-0. Our second game was at 3:00 and against Balboa from Panama (the winners from last year) and we beat them 1-0. On friday our first game was at 9:00 against the host team, Panamericana, and we beat them 1-0. The second game was at 1:30 and it was against CAS from Guatemala and we beat them 6-1. On saturday the semi-final was at 8:00 against ISP from Panama and we beat them in penalties. The final was at 4:00 against AIS from Costa Rica and they beat us 1-0. We got on 2 place, but I was satisfied with the result and i think that also my team was happy.

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