At the end, it wasn’t good, not for the men’s or women’s soccer teams at UH Hilo in 2015.
In the 14-school Pacific West Conference, each Vulcans’ squad ended up 11th, for vastly different reasons, but none of the explanations are enough to generate a smile on the face of Lance Thompson, the school’s director of soccer, and a guy who doesn’t have a lot of experience with losing seasons in his background.
For both teams, for the breadth of NCAA soccer on the Big Island, transformation is in progress, at Thompson’s direction, in dissimilar ways with each gender, but there is no question that change is afoot.