Alumni from the classes of 2024 all the way back to 2014 came out to play against the current girls soccer team.
LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Lima Senior soccer players of today and yesterday met up on Saturday for a friendly match. Alumni from the classes of 2024 all the way back to 2014 came out to play against the current girls soccer team.
The game also helps set the current team up for success this year in a more relaxed way than the typical pre-season scrimmage.
This is the second time the game has been organized in several years. It was brought back after popular demand from former players who wanted a chance to play their sport again and to spend quality time with some of their former teammates. The alumni team says the atmosphere is a lot like a reunion.
"It's nice to get them together and have fun, enjoy the sport that we all love, reconnecting with friends that you've spent all those years together with. I haven't talked to some of these girls; some of them I have, but not all of them, so it's nice to catch up and see how their lives are going," said Jenna Miles of the Lima Senior Class of 2015, who helped organize the match.
The game also helps set the current team up for success this year in a more relaxed way than the typical pre-season scrimmage.
The game also helps set the current team up for success this year in a more relaxed way than the typical pre-season scrimmage.
"It gives me an opportunity to see them in action for the first time against someone other than their own teammates. And so, I can kind of see what's going to happen when someone that they're not as familiar with applies pressure, or is in goal, or whatever. I get to see the different situations. And then it's a friendly scrimmage, so I will be trying girls out in different positions all over the field," explained Paul Fronzaglia, the head coach of the Lima Senior girls varsity soccer team.
The money paid by alumni to play in the match was also donated to the team to help cover costs like uniforms.
