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.
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