Following the end of the spring workouts in women’s soccer, the team takes a break. Coaches meet with their players and give them things to work on over the summer. Some athletes might hang up the boots and relax for a few months. Others might work on their own, stay in shape and work with individual coaches.
Junior Halle Stelbasky and senior Maria Collica did neither of these things.
“A lot of times, girls fall off during the summer and lose focus,” Collica said.
Instead, they went home. Some may call it the “mistake by the lake.