It's our first year coming back. I knew they had talent, but I'm pleasantly surprised. They have a really good shot at making the tournament. We're a small school that's back on the board.

We have a really good seventh-grade class. Even though they're small, their soccer skills are so developed that there isn't that safety issue as much as there was before.

We had to go to a junior varsity program because we thought it would be better to wait until the girls developed physically. Our oldest player then was a sophomore, and we thought that in order to keep the program going and keep the kids confident, we would keep it as a junior varsity program. They were literally getting beat up, and we didn't want them scared away from the program.

She's just a total raw talent,

That was definitely a bummer. At least we worked hard. We knew we didn't have as much talent as years before, but we still had a lot of close games.

They take Australian talent overseas, develop it and try to get a major label to pick them up. So we were really lucky to sign with them. They sent us over the top.