The junior high-aged girls soccer team started slow against the stiff competition in Eugene’s Valley League. The team included three sixth-graders, six seventh-graders and six eighth-graders, two of whom had never played soccer before.
“We were a very young and very inexperienced team,” Coach Lela Danforth said.
But, she said, about halfway through the season “something clicked” and the girls bought into Danforth’s urging to “believe in yourself, communicate, be aggressive on the ball, trust…