My department is notorious for a lack of participation in extracurricular activities. Our graduate students are always too busy to show up for beer nights, steak nights, social events, or recreational sports teams. We finally had to create a trifecta with the veterinary med and biology students to get enough people to even make events worthwhile.
Surprisingly, we were able to put together a women's soccer team for the fall season. Our first game was tonight. We're called the Toxicology Thundercats. We had enough people show up that we even had a sub. Huzzah!
Even though it's been 10+ years since I played soccer (and I wasn't very good at it then!), I volunteered to play midfield. I run half marathons, so a 50 minute game shouldn't be too bad, right? Wrong! I forgot how much sprinting sucks. The worst part is that I didn't even end up running the whole game since I volunteered to take a turn in goal the second half. Playing in goal was great since I never even touched the ball, though.
The Thundercats dominated possession for most of the game, had a bunch of shots on goal, and finally scored late in the game to win 1-0!
This soccer deal was something I did as part of my 'putting myself out there' plan. I have to admit that I had a lot of fun, and I'm really glad I did it. Blogging has already had a positive influence on me ;)
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