UTC Mocs logoThe University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s soccer team kicks off the season with a lot of inexperience but more players than the group that went winless in the Southern Conference and 5-14 overall in 2013.
UTC coach J.D. Kyzer is entering his 15th year with the Mocs, and he has brought in eight freshmen. The team will have 14 first- or second-year players and only two seniors when it opens play tonight at 6 at UNC Asheville.
“We have a lot of new people,” Kyzer said early this week. “Having new people you have growing pains, but they’re good pains because once you get everyone on board things get going good.
“We have to take it little by little. We’ve got so many new people, so we’ve got to win the game against Asheville — that’s our goal right now. Obviously, our ultimate goal is to win in conference and win as many as we can. I think we’re on the way to do that, and we have a lot of good people who can play the game.”
Captains Crystal Mackezyk and Clare Latham take on the challenge of leading a team loaded with newcomers seeking early playing time in NCAA Division I soccer.