The loss of seven senior starting players won't hinder the Ball State University soccer team in its upcoming 2009 season.
With fresh faces coming into the spring and 2009 fall season, the women all have equal chances at becoming the player to watch. But seniors Megan Ridley and Patti Hoeg are the players to be on the lookout for to have a breakout season, coach Michael Lovett said.
Ridley was apart of the 2008 Academic All-Mid-American Conference team and a First Team All-MAC selection.
The main goal of this season is giving the players who were injured during the fall season playing time and a confidence boost, Lovett said.
"Be a cohesive team, create an identity, have positive results against competition and make extreme progress for the 2009 fall season," Lovett said of his key goals for the spring.
The seven new members of the soccer team are transfer students and players from the women's club soccer team.
"There has been nothing but positive responses from the new players," Lovett said. "Our family type of attitude has been adopted by the team."
Finishing seventh in the 2008 MAC standings, the Ball State soccer team is looking to climb the charts this year.
Western Michigan, the first team on Ball State's spring schedule, defeated Ball State 1-0 in the 2008 fall season. "We want to give Western Michigan a run for their money," Lovett said. "Ball State was the better team in the fall, and we should go prove it now that we're still the best team."
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