Santa Clara Women's Soccer 2012

Umm...


Where is Kealia Ohai from?

 

I don't think LBSU has a very good chance to win Saturday - unless maybe your girls are looking down the road as much as you all.

 

Yeah she's from Utah, but I don't think she is LDS. Could be wrong tho.
So per twitter, if BYU makes the final game, they move it to Saturday. So the Semi's would be Fri and then the Final would be Saturday.

 

Actually, I was referencing her being from altitude. I believe Alta is even higher than Provo. She will have little trouble there. But whether she is LDS or not, she grew up in the culture, and her coaches were LDS. Come to think of it, isn't Anson?

 

Yeah he is rumored to be. Who really knows tho. And the altitude won't help her one bit unless she's been training at altitude for over 2 weeks. (Some estimates are even 3-4 weeks) I doubt UNC will let her fly home to do that, so she is stuck sucking wind like the rest of us.

 

you are talking whole different altitude timing.
here is what FIFA decided for the issue.

8,200 feet is almost twice the altitude of Prov0 (4550 ft.), and players in the past reported no issues with just a couple days extra to acclimate

When UP went to Boulder last time (5,400 ft), Dani Foxhoven, Kendra Chandhoke, Keelin Winters, Elli Reed, and several other players who grew up there showed no signs of being gassed.

 

Makes it ridiculous for Stanford, also. Besides a #11 RPI (probably) in round 2, they should not have to face the #2 RPI before reaching the College Cup.

Which is my biggest issue, the #2 RPI not being a #1 seed. My apologies to The Committee for their two top teams being in the same state. If Duke and North Carolina were RPIs 1 and 2, would they be in the same region? Doubt it, they aren't now. If The Committee felt that San Diego State didn't deserve their RPI, then why not just skip the RPI and use the coaches' poll? That might not work either, last one I saw had SDSU #6 but three teams ahead of them proceeded to lose. Or fix the RPI system if it is so defective.

Prodigious excrement from the male cow.

 

Having been a college athlete who grew up in Denver and played elsewhere for college I can tell you that it very much has an effect. There is no way I could've walked back into altitude having not trained there for weeks and been fine. It's not like if you are from there you automatically adjust. That's absurd.

 

Well, like i said, being in shape helps. Being in really good shape, which most college players aren't, helps a lot. Players who coast in their training will pay the price.

Im old, but I was a rock climber and spent years above 5K feet and am still in fair shape aerobically. I went to Argentina last Spring and trekked at 14,200 ft on the altiplano with little effect after just a couple of days at about 4500 ft. Other folks were puking. I live now at 165 feet. part of the issue is mental.

If you think you are at disadvantage, you are.

 

From way back in high school biology, I remember something about the altitude acclimation process being a matter of the blood cells changing their shape so they can absorb more oxygen, and that the process takes about two weeks. It really doesn't have anything to do with lungs, although I've misleadingly referred to "mountain goat lungs". So if the Colorado-raised Portland players did well at 5,400 feet, that proves that they were in excellent shape at/near sea level.

Speaking of goats, the one mounting the cathedral in my icon/avatar/whatever the little picture is called is just a normal farm goat, not a mountain goat, Cologne's elevation is only 120 feet.

 

I figured it was a Sundgau, known in this country as an Alpine Goat. They are pretty good milkers and I've seen 'em in 14,000 ft. passes in the Alps.



They can climb stuff you probably can't

 

Roadkill can climb stuff I can't.

If it's an Alpine goat, that would explain being able to climb over a cathedral.

 

Thank you. That helps (your entire post, not just that sentence). Simple minds prefer simple systems. There's a lot to the sport and RPIs and the selection process that doesn't jump up and explain itself, and I really appreciate that you and others take the time to do that for the rest of us. ESPECIALLY you. I can explain the off-sides rule in soccer and ice hockey and I've recently grasped the Electoral College, but if anybody asks me about the selection process, I will punt the question to you.

 

Or up the side of a dam...



But the real champs are the Olympic Mountain guys. I'm pretty sure I can't do what this guy is doing for a drink of water.

 

As a full time soccer mom, mini-van taxi service, and all those other mom jobs, I hit the slippery slope of out-of-shapeness after a lifetime of fitness. Out of shape, recovering from a back problem, and 40 pounds overweight, with asthma, I still travel occasionally to a location in the mountains above 4500 feet where we hike or walk extensively. Above 7 or 8 thousand feet definitely causes me some discomfort, but 4500 is barely on my radar, even in the shape I'm in now.

But I was really waiting to see who would mention the BYU/Sunday dilemma. Would they really reschedule the final if BYU makes it? There are no Sunday games on their schedule.

An LDS friend told me that there would have to be a pretty serious service component for it to even be a possibility.

 

I should like to point out, that despite pictures posted otherwise on this thread, that the mascot of the Santa Clara Women's Soccer team is the bronco, picture attached.



Oops, sorry, wrong bronco. See attached.

 

7 Santa Clara players were honored with all-league designations by the WCC. http://www.santaclarabroncos.com/sports/w-soccer/2012-13/releases/20121106vc99i3
http://www.wccsports.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/110612aac.html

There was one additional player that I felt worthy of mention. Central defender Allie Vernon got 2nd team honors, but her running mate, Ellie Rice, was not mentioned. It is impossible for me to think of Santa Clara's back line without thinking of Allie and Ellie in almost the same thought. Both are fast on their feet, slender in build and play terrific soccer, and both were worthy of league honors, IMHO.

 

The first Team is impressive, but my money is on the second team beating them. At least they have a keeper.

 

I second the Ellie Rice shout out enthusiastically...a terrific decision maker and fearless...both Vernon and Rice are playing out of position and sacrificing the joys of playing their preferred midfield due to Jerry's apparent unwillingness to recruit defenders.
LBSU played us off the field 2 years ago in NCAAs so this match won't be easy.

 

How funny. You are right, the 1st team all-league lacks a GK.

 

The selections also lack an offensive player of the year.

 

But where else can I read about and discuss my alma mater's soccer team and learn something about goats in the process? And that's a nice looking Bronco. Both of them.

 

from The Santa Clara:
http://www.thesantaclara.com/sports/women-s-soccer-back-in-tourney-1.2948078

 

Is this normal? Looking at it, how can you have a defender as player of the year, but not the defender of the year? That makes no sense.

And I have to agree. No offensive player of the year? Who was the European coach that said the hardest thing to do in soccer by far, was to score goals.