If Arizona soccer players are bitter about their old coaching staff leaving them for Florida, it doesn’t show.
Senior defender Sabrina Enciso said it brought their tight-knit team even closer. Junior goalkeeper Hope Hisey used it as motivation, tweeting a day after the news broke that “all we got is us!”
That doesn’t mean it’s been easy. As other teams released their 2021 schedules early this summer, the Wildcats didn’t even have a head coach. It was confusing and, at times, unnerving.
As the school searched for a replacement, Hisey led players-only Zoom meetings so the team had a place to comfort each other.