Fortuna High’s Girls Soccer Program Takes on the New Season

Fortuna, California

Tia Graham

The Fortuna’s girls soccer program is just about to kick off their season. Last year, they lost a substantial amount of seniors and have gained many new players this year. Their coach Kathleen Lynch and former and present player KC Cortes has agreed to answer a few questions about the team.

KC  Cortes says that she’s most excited about getting to know the new players and adapting to their style of play. Every year players graduate and some years they lose players more than other years and this year that was the case. KC thinks losing players will affect the team but she has high hopes and says that it’s just creating new opportunities for former and new players. As she remembers how intimidated she was and how she was grateful for the opportunities she was given.  KC says that “my freshman year I was intimidated. I want to help new players improve just like the older ones did for me.”

Some of the best qualities of the team are their relationships with each other and also working together and supporting each other,  Coach Lynch says. Lynch explains that 8 out of 20 players graduated last year and there was a lot of new faces coming out for tryouts. “ The first year players coming in has a lot of potential which we are excited about,”  says Coach Lynch. The team is very good at adapting to new changes as this year she made the decision of running multiple formations instead of one. At the end of the day a coach  has to be focused on one main idea and that is leadership. As they’ve lost the majority of the leaders last year, they have to rebuild. She wants to create hard working atmosphere and fast pace style of play with the help of the leaders she hopes to accomplish this.