Scoring Some Fun
by KayLee Bellamy ’11 - 28 Nov 2007

Climbing out of our warm sweatpants, our small soccer team huddles together, trying to forget that Simon’s Rock has a much bigger and stronger team than ours. Our brave coach, Michael Graeff, leans into our tight circle and gives us some last pointers. Cate Crowley, the assistant coach, runs up to us and reminds us to stay together, and tells us to win this game.

Conor, Darius, Anna, Sarita, KayLee, Michael, and five Hawthorne Valley students, Derek, Paul, Jordan, Lucas and Ben, troop onto the field. Each of us is trying to keep warm, bouncing on our toes, ready to play.

Winning games is not the sole expectation in sports. Of course you long to win, but in the end it all comes down to working as a team. Michael Graeff, Darius’s and Michael’s father, and Cate Crowley, a former student from the lower school, have been fabulous coaches in this regard.

Our first game was against Harstbrook. We did a good job in the first half, which ended tied 2 to 2, but Hartsbrook scored again in the second half, making the final score 3 to 2.

For our next game we drove all the way up to New Hampshire to play the High Mowing School. During the game it was pouring rain, so by the end we were shivering and soaked.

Our last game of the season was against Simon’s Rock, which we lost 4 to 0.

Although we didn’t win a game we had fun, and got to meet different people in the process.

People say playing sports is not about winning. Rather, that’s what those who lose say. But for our team, who fought against all odds and still lost, playing soccer this season really was all about working together as a team, and being out on the soccer field with our friends, doing our best.

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