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Soccer shifts focus to future after troubled past

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They wake up before the sun rises, get their equipment and make their way to the Carl Lewis Complex for the first day of fall workouts. In the scorching Houston climate that provides enough humidity to suffocate, the girls of the UH soccer team are beginning to prepare for a season in which they have much to prove.

It hasn’t been easy for the upperclassmen of the soccer team, though.

The team has been bad for three consecutive seasons. Not just miss-the-postseason-bad, but historically bad. In these last three seasons combined, the team has managed just a 6-36-8 overall record and is still searching for their first American Athletic Conference victory at 0-25-1.