Diary

Katie
Bergfeld

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February 7, 2005

We arrived in Rochester on Thursday afternoon right in the middle of a "heat wave". Yup, we got to leave our 60-degree weather to bask in the beautiful 33-degree weather that the city of Rochester was currently enjoying.

After unpacking and settling in for a little bit, we then headed out to Olive Garden, where Mackenzie's uncle joined us for some delicious Italian food. We made sure to keep Katie A. away from the breadsticks this year, because we found out from last year that eating almost a dozen breadsticks the night before a game tends to make one sick. That night, we all slept in anticipation for our second matchup in one week against the University of Rochester.

Friday, we stayed pretty low key, as we had to save up all our energy for the game. Once 6 p.m. came, we were all very excited to get out there and start playing the team that had just beat us on our home court.

The game started off great, we came out pretty pumped up. We went into the locker room only down by a couple points at halftime. But, sadly, things just didn't go our way the second half, and Rochester ended up pulling away by enough, so that we could not catch up.

We were really heartbroken after the loss. I mean, it's hard to get beat by a team once, but two times in six days??? Instead of upsetting ourselves even more, though, we spent some quality time in the locker room after the game, deciding what we need to do to improve and getting ready for our next game in Pittsburgh.

We got up bright and early Saturday morning to make the four-hour bus trek from Rochester to Pittsburgh. Soon, after arriving, we finally got to our rooms (after the 25-minute elevator ride!!), unloaded our stuff, and then headed back out for lunch and practice.

Practice was a huge success, as everyone put forth 100 percent effort in getting ready for the Carnegie game. Then, after some interesting conversations at dinner and in a hallway of the hotel, we all went to bed, ready for our next win.

We entered the gym on Sunday, watched the end of the men's game, and then started getting ready for our own. The game started off well. After two quick three-pointers from Carnegie's offense, we battled back to go on a 27-2 run. The rest of the first half was ours, dominated by our amazing effort on defense.

The second half was still ours on defense, and even though our offense slipped a little, we ended up coming out with a win! This game, the posts really made an effort on the boards, each of us trying to win the contest created by Coach Ciccone. He made a deal with us that whomever got the most rebounds/minute would get an ice cream dessert after the game. Steph ended up winning, but we all put up a good fight, and none of the rest of us were upset, as we had just pulled out a win....together.

Katie Bergfeld is a junior from High Ridge, Mo. She would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.