TOP: Entrance row, from left: Coach Mickey McDonough, Ilana Moeller, Charli Clow, Mariel Parish, Francesca Martin, Avery Kurt, Haper Artz, Kennedy Murphy, Maya Earhart, Corinn Wells, Brittany Lopau, Kate Hagen, Alexis Sundeen. Again row, from left: Coach Aaron Haycraft, Alvin Clow, Aspen Wickert, Abigail Sundeen, Kynlee Beemer, Lauren Bettin, Addison Folkerts, Maia Goerndt, Joslyn Meyer, Alexis Haycraft, Halyn Haycraft, Carly Gustafson, Talyor Truesdell, Giulia Severa, Kylie Flanagan, Madison Sokoloski, Coach Josh Meyer. Not Pictured: Paige Hartwig, Hayden Olson, Nani Rosario, Coach Ryan Parish, Adylen Laven (Supervisor), Piper Crookston (Supervisor), Evie Folkerts (Supervisor) and Lily Truesdell (Supervisor).
FAIRMONT – The Fairmont Cardinals ladies hockey workforce is again in motion, presently 1-1 and coming off a 7-18 report final season. The primary focus of the teaching employees is on participant improvement and ensuring everybody they’ll attain falls in love with the game of hockey.
Fielding a squad of 30 ladies, there’s a new workforce really feel with 11 of the 30 being returning gamers. Of the 11 gamers, 4 at the moment are seniors in Abigail Sundeen, IIana Moeller, Brittany Lopau and Charli Clow.
“These ladies are going to go on the market and have as a lot enjoyable as they’ll.” Fairmont head coach Aaron Haycraft stated. “We're going to work as laborious as we are able to and be the perfect teammates we might be.”
The Cardinals have versatility at every place, permitting them to offer completely different seems in several conditions. The workforce makes each effort to assist participant improvement and total efficiency.
“I need everybody to enhance day by day” Haycraft stated. “Day-after-day is an opportunity to enhance and we put in plenty of effort, plenty of laborious work in each observe in order that we are able to obtain that aim.”
The workforce received off to begin after shutting out New Prague Three-Zero and put up a tricky struggle towards Mankato West the place they fell 5-Three. This Cardinal workforce doesn't surrender, however retains combating till the buzzer sounds within the remaining interval.
By encouraging the love of the sport, this system continues to develop, and that has develop into a mantra for Haycraft.
“My expectations for this yr is that every of those gamers and households can have a constructive hockey expertise this yr.” Haycraft stated.
With that want to have enjoyable and construct this system comes plenty of laborious work that the workforce is greater than prepared for.
“I work actually, actually laborious,” Haycraft stated. “We’re very impressed with the tempo of coaching, the depth of coaching, already forming a workforce, being good teammates. I'm so pleased with them.”
Whereas the coaches aren't targeted on the win-loss column, the Cardinals are poised to have a strong yr with the expertise and progress of their 11 returning gamers. The Cardinals look to the 19 new gamers becoming a member of the highschool program together with the laborious work they put in day by day to indicate outcomes on and off the ice.
Heading into their third sport of the season, the Cardinals tackle Waseca of their residence opener on Tuesday at 7 p.m.