just another manic monday..

Today was crazy. And I feel a bit like venting.

Mainly about soccer because it's nothing like it used to be. I have played soccer since fifth grade. I remember when my dad asked my sister and I if we wanted to play. She couldn't wait and I was scared out of my mind- I was shy back then, can you believe it?
Anyways, I started playing with the purple team, then the purple/pink, green, orange, and then finally high school. My freshman year, I had an absolute blast and then was pulled up to Varsity for a few games and then at the end of the season. I was ecstatic to play sophomore year and be the only other sophomore to play on Varsity besides Stephanie.
But then I got sick with mono.
And we all know how that went.
So I came back junior year to play for Potter. I made Varsity and worked really hard ... only to sit the bench half of the season. It wasn't until Audrey Pastula went to Potter and told him she didn't understand why she wasn't playing. I wanted to quit. Finally, he started playing me. I ended up doing pretty well.
This year, I ran cross country to try something new and fell in love. I didn't run in the winter because of injury and then my first day back to run, I rolled my ankle ... bad. So I took more time off and just recently returned to running. I missed conditioning for soccer because I was on vacation.
Today was the first day of try outs. Mr. Wolodkin is helping out which is good because he actually knows what he's talking about. We had to go to Potter's classroom to fill out some forms and there was one where it asked what position we wished to play and had the most experience in. Naturally, I put down right forward. I've played it all of high school. Wolodkin preceeded to stand over me and say, "Woodbury, put midfield down." I just looked at him. Why would I play midfield? I mean I played last year but that was only as a sub. I'm pretty sure I didn't score three 1 vs 1 goals on Columbia Central at Districts as a midfielder. This is my senior year and they want to switch everything around. Potter wants to have 20 girls on Varsity; that's almost two teams and that leaves JV with 11 girls which is exactly one team ... no subs. Stupid. He also wants to not do a diamond defense which is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I'm just so frusterated. Our soccer program got screwed over the day Mark left and we hired Potter. He doesn't even know what a direct kick is.

Whatever. I'm talking to them about it tomorrow. It's bogus.