Feature 3: The Final Battle

As the weather is getting colder and fall break is around the corner, fall sports are beginning to prepare for the postseason. Players are beginning to think about that final game, that final match and how to cross the finish line in first. The season, with the training and hard work from every individual on the team, leads up to this moment. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the postseason.

Seabury has been destroying the competition in fall sports this year. Maybe you realized just how good our teams have been doing when you started to feel bad for the other team after hearing the soccer scores. Maybe you realized just how fast junior Henry Nelson runs when Mrs. McCaffrey showed everyone what a twenty second lead feels like. Maybe, just maybe, you went to a volleyball game and watched senior Lindsey Hornberger make the other teams cry after getting spiked for the third or fourth time in a row. If you have not, your last chance is coming up to see our amazing teams in action.

Every year cross-country aims to compete at the state meet. Faculty member Kara Schrader, the high school cross country coach, says that this year's cross country team is very talented and her goal this year is to get as many runners to state as possible. She believes that in the upcoming weeks before state it is important that “we maintain a careful balance, between running a lot of miles and intervals and make sure most importantly that we avoid injuries,” says Schrader. Overall, with proper practice of tapering and injury prevention, the cross country team is on course to have one of the best postseasons the school has ever seen.

Cross country is not the only team having an amazing season; the high school soccer team has dominated this year. Not only are they 9-2, but they have been winning by as many as nine goals per game. Part of the reason for this, explains high school soccer coach Ivo Ivanov, is that “in past years we have been one-dimensional, relying on only one or two players, but this year we have had eight different people score for us.” Ivanov explained that having this many players with the ability to score allows for the team to be more unpredictable and is part of the reason why they have been so successful this soccer season. But, as always, there is room for improvement and varsity team captain, senior Tommy Warden, says that they can and will work on “playing more as a team, passing well and keeping their good chemistry.”

With both soccer and cross country looking to win the postseason, varsity volleyball coach Brian Rios has confidence that the high school volleyball team will not only win the sub state tournament but do well at the state tournament. Part of the reason Rios feels this way, he says, is that “our team from the beginning of the season decided that they were going to play competitively and through their competitiveness they have become one of the most successful volleyball teams here at Seabury in years.”

As freshman Anna Johnson puts it, “Together we are a really good team, and when we talk and get the ball up in the air, there is no argument whatsoever about us making it to state.”

If you have not already, one of the best things you could do for yourself would be to go out and actually see our teams play. This year, Seabury's teams are some of the best ever and if that is not reason enough to go out and see them crush other teams, then I do not know what is.

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