 so far so good we needed to not snow anymore but the girls are looking fit they're looking strong we really have brought a whole new energy to this year's this year's season I think with a lot of the injuries that we had last year one of the things we learned was that everybody was going to play a significant role once the season got going we had to be ready to step in to someone else's maybe starting shoes at the drop of a hat so what that did for us the second half of the season last year is that really made us have a whole different practice ethic from top to bottom no one could go anything less than a hundred percent or as hard as they could or as aggressive as they could because they could be starting the next day they could be a part of of you know winning or losing in the following day so as we're very excited to have all those injured players back our role players have really taken a huge increase in in the quality of their play and their IQ and I think we're gonna be a team that really can play in every single game every player well when you have a player like Kerry Russo you know there's there's just she's going to be the focus of every team that we play you know she does it all she's she's an extraordinary defender she's wonderful on the draw she plays 60 minutes of every game never wants to come out sometimes we want to just give her a rest and she'll just turn around and give a look that means nope I'm not right now I'll take my rest on the field a little bit and then just being the primary goal scorer so you know adding to that you know Kelly and Kosha is you're gonna continue to do a good job Isabel Van Emberg is gonna continue to do a great job we have put on both of them that we would like to see another 15 goals from that you know 15 more goals than they had a year ago our issue last year we got our defense to be where we wanted it to be we were just sitting around kind of waiting for Kara to do her thing on offense I think definitely this season that's not at all our look it's it's one person scoring and then another person scoring and adding Aaron Steinberg she's scoring and Sophia Murray she's scoring and you know we're so excited to Bailey Crawlback and I don't want to miss out on on anybody's name but it's it's it's it all attackers contribution now in practice and in our first scrimmage so far so we're really excited to to start the season and see if we can be really difficult to mark up because we have so many threats on the offensive end you know it's always the hope to go out there and play great lacrosse and and my scheduling philosophy has always been we will play the best opening with Salisbury and Gettysburg for the last you know more than a decade has really shown us who we are and what we need to work on really early in the season we you know hope to get some upsets in these in these first couple games and and kind of show the country that we're a whole different look than we were a year ago and a whole different level of athleticism a whole different level of speed and aggressiveness you know some of the tests will be you know we have a new goalie so and honestly we don't know who that's going to be we have four exceptional young goalies who fight day-to-day to see who's going to be the starter and that might change as the season as the season progresses or in particular in the beginning as we see who really is settling into that starting role pressure was we have a super young defense so what can they do against against the Salisbury's and the Gettysburg's of of the country we don't we don't know so far so good in practice they're really down the fork but you know it's gonna it's gonna really depend on how they progress and learn as we go through we're really excited