Is there any added pressure going into the season with such high expectations?
Every year we go into the season with short-term and long-term goals. We want to achieve our short-term goals first and if we do that our long-term goals are going to happen. Our goals are to have a successful regular season, put ourselves in position for a good seed in the Conference Championship tournament and to win the Conference Championship. After that, we will then start to really think about the next step. The next step of putting us in the Championship game, with the level of competitiveness that this NCAA season is going to have, is probably premature to talk about since we haven’t played with our full group yet. I feel the pressures are the same each season. The team needs to make improvements each and every day and work hard enough to put ourselves in position to compete for and win an NCAA Championship. In my humble opinion, Andy Stevens was the best goalie at the NCAA Tournament as well as being one of the best three players there. How much confidence does your team deriv
