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Show PG Kickers Set to Boot in Another Girls' Soccer Season by Dean Von Memmott In the late afternoon sun on Aug. 5, the Pleasant Grove Viking girls' soccer team members spent their last ses sion of two-a-day practicing on Viking Stadium's Astroturf field. Mentoring them was Head Coach Caitlyn Young, back for 1 her second season. Having played for the Mountain View Bruins several years ago, she had accumulated accumu-lated much coaching experience experi-ence through skippering club teams. , During a brief break at the practice, she talked a little bit about this year's squad. She said, "Seventy girls came out for tryouts. We kept 40 of them. Many of them are experienced juniors. ju-niors. Though we have not elected any team captains yet, we do have two experienced experi-enced seniors: Brittani Johnson John-son and Lydia Anderson. "What I was pleased about the girls that we kept was their individual skills. Passing is their strongest skill." Young has two assistants this year: Danni Ward and Mark Stansfield. Stansfield works with the team's goalies. Ward helps Young with the varsity and jayvees. When Young took over the program last year, she posted a 2-2 preseason record and guided the girls through a really re-ally rough Region 4. Because it had really strong teams like the Brighton Bengals, Alta Hawks, and Lone Peak Knights, the Vikings didn't make the state playoffs. The new region Pleasant Grove is in promises to be really re-ally tough. It has powerhouses like the Riverton, Bingham, Lehi, Lone Peak, and American Ameri-can Fork. Young said, "We expect to have a really tough game against Lone Peak later this month." |
