Fifth Week of Second Semester
Matt Wilder, lacrosse student-athlete here again. I would have to say this has been my best week. Knowing what you know about my first four weeks, that might not be saying much, but things are moving in the right direction. The weekend following my last blog was our last full game scrimmage as a team. Going into it I was very nervous, because this was the last time the coaches would be evaluating us. I got in my head a bit so started off making mistakes in warm-ups. Thankfully this time when I got my opportunity to go in, I didn't waste it again. When I go in, my role is usually to clear the ball from our end to the other side, allowing our offense a possession and hopefully score. I went all out and ran hard on the first clear and we were successful in getting a transition goal. The only problem with doing that is the risk of getting tired too quickly. For some reason that day, I got unusually tired. Sadly, after that first score our offense wasn't really moving the ball well ...