Stacie Twehues

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September 22, 2003

Ohio Wesleyan University's Women's Soccer Team: Two-Time Defending National Champions with a 51-game Winning Streak.

We were faced with the opportunity of a lifetime last weekend, a chance to play this team. Practices were intense all week and we were focused at practice, learning their style of play so that we would be ready when we faced them on Saturday.

The "revelation" was one less intense moment where Sabo explained to us a fantastic way to score when an offensive corner kick is cleared out by the defense. We were skeptical, but kept it in the back of our minds, in case the opportunity to execute it came about.

We flew into the Columbus airport, had a light practice, and went to dinner at the Brown Jug, a local restaurant in Delaware, Ohio. We decided that everything was good there with some ketchup or barbecue sauce.

While none of believed Sabo when he said he ran into a musical artist at the pool, he proved us wrong when he handed out Jason Levasseur's CD to us at our team meeting. Jason was staying at our hotel because he was playing at Ohio Wesleyan on Friday night, and when he talked to Sabo, wished us luck, told us to beat OWU, and proceeded to get CDs for each of us. It was a nice surprise.

On Saturday morning, we arrived to the field focused and ready to break OWU's winning streak. Throughout our warm-up we were defending well, but also scoring goals, all the while getting pumped up by the other team's warm-up CD.

While we did not come out victorious, losing 2-0, we held our heads high, knowing that we had given it our all. The game was even, and we definitely had our chances to score. Shots wide or hitting the crossbar, a header over the goal, our opportunities were there. We could have easily scored four or five goals, but we didn't.

We now want to face them in the national championship, but instead defeat the two-time defending national champion.

Stacie Twehues is a senior from Ft. Thomas, Ky. She would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.