Soccer Season 2011!!

What’s up guys...

 

 I’m here today because I want to tell y’all about the last women’s soccer season. Women’s soccer at Northwood is pretty big and the team is extremely good. We were Red River Conference Champions in 2010 and after a lot of obstacles, we ended the season in second in 2011!! If everything works out the way we plan, next season we will go to National Competition again. 

 Well like I said, last season we had a lot of obstacles.. We had a new coach and a completely new team. It took us awhile to start playing like a TEAM. We also had many injuries and sometimes we saw ourselves playing with exactly 11 players or even 9, when the number of players should be 11 v 11 every game. But trust me, this is a bad situation when you are practicing during the summer at 1 pm!! When the season started, we still had some people out because of injuries but after some ups and downs we finally made it to the finals.

                                                                                                             

In the first final we played against LSU in Shreveport and we killed them, the game ended 3x0. After that, we saw ourselves in the semi-finals and we played against Our Lady of the Lake University from San Antonio. The Semi-finals and final this year were in Wesleyan (our big rival) and they weren’t in the finals so just this fact made us happy already. The game ended 0x0, we went to overtime and in the second half of the overtime we scored after a foul to our favor from far away and that made it 1x0, Northwood winning. When the ref pointed to the middle (to signal the goal) of the field and ended the game, all of the Northwood fans that were there watching us play, invaded the field and in a big circle athletes, coaches and fans were praying and I swear that was the best game in the season that was craaaaaaazy!!! We were finally in the big final of the Red River Conference against the best team in the Tournament, University of Texas in Brownsville. We actually lost that game, but we knew that just to get there after everything we've been through together as a TEAM, we were already Champions. I’m really proud to be part of this team and to know that next season we are going to be the Champions, go to Nationals and kick butt in California!! :) Woooh!! \o/ \o/

See y'all later..

|_'KeLLy.17'_|

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships!!"

Did you know...

Texas is one great state and here are just a few reason why it is so amazing.

Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States. Ever heard of Six Flags, the amusement park? (That's where it gets its' name.)

The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

More wool comes from the state of Texas than any other state in the United States.

 

Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation.

 

Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.

Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. The Dublin Dr Pepper, 85 miles west of Waco, still uses pure imperial cane sugar in its product. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper.

Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies.

The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was Houston.

El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.

The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built entirely over the water. 

And my personal favorite:

The state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845.

You truly can learn something new everyday. I found all of these quite interesting. They were just a few of all the ones that I found. You can find even more online at http://www.50states.com/facts/texas.htm.

♥,

Tiffany

I can DO THIS!...and so can you

                                     Well, maybe I can't do THAT!☝

OK I just want to say that I've always been sort of a math moron and for the past 2 months I was kind of struggling in my math class, but i didn't think I was doing THAT bad. so I'm checking out my grades online one day because I'm a nerd and I do that and I like to stay on top of things (like an academic boss:p) and I come to find out that I have a 61 in my math class. "WELL THIS IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE!"

so thankfully there are so many online resources like virtual tutors and stuff that are available to me here through this program that my class uses. So I'm like "Oh that's what that 'help me' button is for!" and I started using those and now my grade is a 70. It's still not where I would like it to be and still a little unacceptable for my preference, but it is picking up slowly, but surely and I am very excited for that.

Also, they have these awesome little videos where this guy will work a problem out for you and it's step by step and I can pause or rewind if I miss a part. Or they have this hotline number you can call and you give the person on the other end your problem and they will explain to you every detail of these confusing formulas. There's also some great tutors on campus at the Learning Resource Center (LRC) but I decided to opt for the online help because then I can get help on my own time or when I have time i should say; it was just much easier for me than to go schedule an appointment with the people at the LRC and go through all of that.

OK so here's the point: coming to Northwood I was worried about the help that would be available to me in my math classes or any other classes that I might need help with (for me though, it's just always been math). I had heard all throughout high school that students and professors in college aren't as willing to help as everyone in high school is. Well, I just completely debunked that myth because it is soooooo NOT TRUE! at least not here at Northwood:D
-Daryl V.