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As high school girls soccer state tournament begins, Southwest Christian focuses on the approach, not the end result

By Cassidy Hettesheimer, The Minnesota Star Tribune, 10/22/24, 7:15PM CDT

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The undefeated Stars won a tight section final to book its second consecutive trip to the Class 1A state tournament.

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Last year, the Southwest Christian girls soccer team got its first-ever taste of competing in a state tournament, but fell short in the semifinals. Instead of entering this fall with that loss pinned on a vision board as motivation, head coach Mark Anderson said they largely tried to ignore it.

“We don’t talk a lot about winning,” Anderson said. “We talk about playing a certain way and approaching the game a certain way.”

The chance of booking back-to-back trips was impossible to ignore as the No. 1-seeded Stars finished regulation and overtime tied 0-0 against No. 3-seed Watertown-Mayer in the Class 1A, Section 6 final last Tuesday.

“I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t thinking about state at that point,” Anderson said.

For more on the Stars and their return to the Class 1A state tournament, click here to read this story on startribune.com

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