by Kerry Abello | Nov 5, 2021 |
If anyone has been following along (which I don’t know why you would be), you know that this soccer season has posed some real challenges for our team. You would also know that this season hasn’t looked exactly the way I had envisioned it (far from it, actually)....
by Kerry Abello | Oct 10, 2021 |
As usual, I’m going to use this blog to discuss my latest problems/decisions/experiences in respect to being captain of the soccer team. I’m not sure if any of you are keeping up with women’s soccer lately, but we’re having a very rough start to the Big Ten season –...
by Kerry Abello | Sep 11, 2021 |
So, I had some other ideas brewing for this blog post, but after the experience I had Thursday night with my team, I knew I had to share it! This past Thursday we played Virginia, who was ranked #3 at the time and who had just beaten Santa Clara, the defending...
by Kerry Abello | Apr 25, 2021 |
Tomorrow, we (the soccer team) leave for North Carolina for the NCAA tournament. Unlike any other year, this year’s tournament will be entirely held throughout the state of North Carolina, in a type of “bubble” (except not really). The idea is to minimize travel; so,...
by Kerry Abello | Apr 11, 2021 |
I’ve been doing more reflection than usual recently, and I found myself going through some old ENGL 137 blogs from freshman year (yes, I realize I found myself in a pretty long winding spiral here). I came across a blog I wrote in 2018 about the National Women’s...
by Kerry Abello | Apr 4, 2021
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about how I think we (we, as in the Penn State Women’s Soccer Team) can do more in regard to facilitating and encouraging education and conversations within the team on social justice issues, particularly racism. We had some...
by Kerry Abello | Mar 28, 2021 |
Well, we did it again. For my fourth consecutive year, we have claimed a Big Ten title, either the conference or the tournament. After we beat Nebraska today, we learned the Rutgers had lost to Wisconsin, meaning we had clinched the Big Ten conference title. Winning...
by Kerry Abello | Mar 7, 2021
This blog is sort of a follow-up to my last blog, “Leading from a New Position”, in which I basically rant about the challenges of navigating leadership on my team now that I’ve been moved to center back (a position I have never played before). In addition to the...
by Kerry Abello | Feb 28, 2021
This Spring soccer season, although having just begun, has already brought a plethora of challenges. The difficulties with COVID go without saying; but in addition to navigating playing soccer in a pandemic, our team has already suffered a number of significant...
by Kerry Abello | Feb 21, 2021
This season looks a little different than past seasons, but not just because of everything covid-related. But rather, I’m talking about the new emphasis we have on social justice issues, specifically Black Lives Matter. Most leaders on my team, including me, have been...
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