On soccer vacation and not getting much sleep

An eventful week here for your Foresters.

Sunday afternoon was our end of the season awards banquet and we learned that we are a pretty smart group. We had 15 upperclassmen eligible to receive an award for Academic All-Conference, 10 of them had won the honor with a GPA of 3.2 or above. Becky Esrock received the award for the Forester with the highest overall GPA last year. And outgoing captain Christine Sorensen, looking stressed out over having to finish 3 papers before Monday, is no doubt going to do incredibly well on each of them.

A quick but hearty congratulations to our MVP Emily Weber, our MIP Molly Shaw, and our newly christened captains Mira Trebilcock and Isabel Brown. I think we have already mentioned our first and second team all-conference athletes, but just in case: Emily Weber, BZ Greene, Becky Esrock and Lisa Sorensen were all selected by opposing coaches for that honor. Well done ladies.


The pile before we started selecting

Yesterday afternoon we had our annual team White Elephant gift exchange/team meeting. We held a gift exchange and most people seemed like they were satisfied. Suzi Milic came away with a new mug and some hot chocolate (with marshmallows!), Wisconsin-native Anya Moran escaped with her green and yellow Packer scarf*, Kate Fridholm secured a children's toy that is sure to give her hours of enjoyment, and Isabel Brown was spotted munching on the Nerds candy that came as part of her gift.

*Anya's family had 48 lbs of Turkey and 10 pies at their Thanksgiving celebration. I suspect if I were a member of the Moran family I would weigh 600lbs.

Of course, there is more to life to soccer, the soccer team, and soccer team meetings as Mira Trebilcock proved when she went dressed as Mario to a hockey team event. She's like Landon Donovan, we're okay with loaning her out once our season is over, just as long as she remembers who butters her bread.

Further evidence of smart kids: these outfits took only 15 minutes to assemble.


Last day of classes today for these kids. They are going to need all those smarts in their finals that begin on Friday. Fingers crossed they all keep doing incredibly well in their studies!