 You know the goal that we have every year is to to win the conference to get to the NCAA tournament you know our goal you know is to win a national championship with our women's soccer program here at Stevenson so you know we go into every season hoping to you know hoping to win uh hoping to win the conference and get that AQ bit if not then we want an at-large bit by winning the other conference games. We need to start off better you know the last two years or September is nothing good and that can lower the confidence in some players when you're losing games so the key for us is really to get off to a good start and we're going to take it one game at a time we've got to stay grounded last year we were the defending champions and I think that got to our heads a little bit and we thought we're going to breeze through the season again and and be right there with Messiah and it didn't work out that way so this year is to take it one game at a time and get some results in September and if we can do that then we'll be ready for our conference matches in October and that should set us up for the playoffs we do have experience in the midfield with Jordan Pareto coming back she's now a graduate student so she's able to come back for our fifth year and we also have Alexis Seijak her other captain who's going to be one of our forwards we returned Kellan Whitman our top goal scorer over the last two years we returned our starting goalkeeper Tiffany McKee so those are the key players right down the middle of the field that will help us as well as other players that have started a lot Sam Hooker from last year who was a freshman that played almost every game Brittany Solano on the outside Morgan Kerry Shannon Ogrisco so we actually return a good amount of starting players and then we'll be looking to fill the gaps left by Ali and Emily with some of the new players or returning players yeah the freshman have really stood out over these first few days as well as the transfers because they came in they're coming into a team that has good unity and a positive team culture and you know it's been great to see our returning players really kind of mentor the younger players you know they've been having lunch together dinner together they've been supporting each other especially since pre-season is always tough with two practices a day so they've really helped helped the confidence I think of the younger players feel you know part of the team right away and so you know we're excited for the freshman to you know to really step up as well as the transfers and I think with the experience we have and the positive team culture we can really you know have a solid team this year