Spring sports extra: Q&A with Monticello girls’ soccer coach David McDaniel | Sports

The staff is 6-3-3 through its first 12 matches, only three wins away from accomplishing a solitary-year superior in your 5-12 months tenure. How have you felt about the group’s development?

“It’s been very good. It is been fairly competitive. Naturally been a minor bit of a bizarre spring with the weather, but we’ve seriously been progressing well. Girls have been accomplishing far better. Had a good tie versus St. Thomas Far more. Beating Centennial, beating Taylorville (was very good), so we’re just continuing to learn. We’re acquiring healthier and experienced a several injuries early on. I’m looking ahead to having to the midseason right here. … However a good deal of tough game titles to go, but we have been progressing and we’re pretty satisfied with the place we’re at right now.”

Two-thirds of your group is created up of new gamers — both freshmen or older athletes who joined this time. How did you established anticipations for this team with that information?

“This 12 months was the most important alter. The seniors very last calendar year, I achieved as freshmen. … Our varsity roster appeared pretty, very various, but it just actually arrived in the offseason, making some associations. We weren’t rather guaranteed early on the place we’d be at, but it goes back to the girls’ want and our work as coaches, Mentor (Ben) Bodznick and me, to make positive our teaching classes are aggressive and coming to a position the place we can discover. We have been in the gym. We have been on the turf discipline. We’ve been outside the house in the chilly, so it’s been looking at all unique things. I guess the expectation was continue on to press and figure out in which we’d be at. … We have experienced eight goal scorers, and five of them weren’t on the workforce past year. So it goes again to observing new folks stepping up and then continuing to thrust them. I’m very pleased of the girls for how tricky they’re doing the job suitable now.”

Who are some of the newcomers who have impressed you most so far?

“Twelve of the 30 ladies are freshmen. But they are a near-knit group. We’ve had situations in which 5 to 6 of the women starting off had been freshmen. … The big a single, Megan Allen, she has 14 plans and 6 helps. And then Elle Bodznick has 12 objectives and 13 assists. So (Bodznick has) already broken the college report as a freshman for helps in a year, and we’re midway via the season.”

And who are some of the more mature players who are standing out thus far?

“Emmie (German at goalkeeper), getting a senior, is a tough employee. We have bought a freshman goalkeeper (Alison Nebelsick) who she actually performs well with. (German) has been harm a very little bit early on in the 12 months but is setting up to get nutritious. But you can expect good video games every single time she’s in the net. Certainly like the comments she’s providing Ali. … Hannah Swanson, she’s been performing properly once again. Actually working really hard. A wonderful leader. Renni Fultz, coming in as a first-calendar year player, she just enjoys the recreation. Definitely just a excellent chief and a terrific individual. Cora Sowinski is our other senior. She has not performed also much, but the four of them with each other are rather superior leaders.”

What do you really feel this workforce is capable of in the IHSA Course 1A postseason?

“I like the wide range we have on our timetable this calendar year. Searching to the postseason, I sense like we’re a crew that is heading to continue on to find out. Our depth is obtaining greater. So I think we should really absolutely make some sounds in the postseason, in some way.”

Colin Likas is the preps coordinator at The News-Gazette. He can be reached at [email protected], or on Twitter at @clikasNG.