Soccer Wrap Up and Look to a New Season

By OHS Torch Reporter, Triston Ballinger

    Olympia’s boys soccer team’s IHSA season has come to an end, but for many of them the training continues well into the winter with hopes to have an even better season this upcoming year.

    The soccer team ended up finishing this year's season a little worse than anticipated, with a record of 6-8. Senior Tristan Davis said, “We had our ups and downs and I know we could have done better, but I had a fun senior experience.”

    The boys had high expectations coming into this years' season and started off strong, but toward the end of the season they lost a couple of close ones and going into regionals they lost to a tough team. Senior captain Blake Dehn said,” This year was a big step up for us every year we have been improving.”

    Losing 6 seniors that were all starters it will be tough for next year's team, but there is talent in the younger classes. There are a lot of incoming freshmen that will help.

    Junior captain Andres Alberts is a young returning leader that will be trying to take his team further than ever. Andres shows great leadership and skill he has the work ethic to take the team to the next level.

    The boys are going to be working hard this offseason; almost every returning player is participating in an indoor league in Morton. In the off season, they usually play around 15 extra games.

    Olympia’s Soccer team is a little smaller then other area teams but they match up well for there size. Junior Andres Alberts said “ Most of the teams we beat are bigger than us so I think compared to size we are pretty good.”

    We will all have to see if the trend continues to grow and the upcoming soccer teams continue to get better. Andres said, “ I think if we put in the work this offseason the sky's the limit for next season.”