Jeff's Journal: An Honor to Play with This Year's Seniors and Thanks to All for Your Support
A Diary by Jeff Kunze, Toros Soccer Player
November 25, 2002

A day of upsets is what it was. The top ranked teams losing all across the country in the first round of the NCAA playoffs. Our defeat came against Sonoma State. We had beaten them earlier in the year 2-0 and we thought we could look past them and think about the final four. However, we were in for a huge surprise.

Sonoma showed up to play and they definitely outplayed us. We still managed to go up 2-0 in the opening of the second half. However, they scored two goals to match ours and sent the game into overtime.

The soccer Gods were definitely with Sonoma in overtime because in the first overtime, one of their forwards cracked a shot that was heading wide of the goal. Yet, the ball found a way to deflect off one of our players and slowly roll over the goal line. It was a horrible feeling to be so close and let our season slip away from us.

So now we head into off-season. We have four months to work on speed, quickness, agility, and strength.

I know the whole team is trying to look past our devastating defeat and into the future where we have all except four returners. We will be losing some great talent, but we have a lot of young talented players who we are expecting to do great things.

This is my farewell letter, so there will not be any more entries for a while. I want to thank everyone for the support you have given to the soccer program and we hope it continues next year when we are back in full effect.

Till Next Time,
Jeff

PS- I want to throw a shot out to all the seniors who are ending their college soccer careers. It has been an honor to play with all of you and I wish nothing but the best for you.