Big South Tournament
Well the boys are off to Coastal Carolina for the second successive week. They leave tomorrow afternoon at one o’clock, leaving the other red shirts and I behind. Sure it’s upsetting that I don’t get to join the team at the most important event of the year, but I’m using it as a motivational tool— It makes that desire and passion for soccer come out of me, and remind me that I still have four more years to prove myself on the college soccer stage. The good thing is that the team should be gone until Sunday night, giving that we make it to the championship match, meaning that I am free to do whatever I choose over this little “break.”
I’ve decided that on Friday after I finish my classes around noon, I’m gonna give Rock Hill a quick good bye and head south, towards Athens! I can’t wait. It will be a very enjoyable and relaxing weekend, one away from the business of being a student athlete. I get to see my girl friend and wonderful best friends. I’ll get to spend two nights in Athens, before coming back sometime Sunday morning. If Winthrop has a fan-bus, as they did last week when we played at Coastal, I’m definitely catching a ride on it Sunday.
Things are setting up very nicely as I head into the later weeks of my first semester. I’m back on the pitch, training with the team. I get to have a pre-Thanksgiving break in Athens, and most importantly, my grades are looking pretty good. However, these could always use some improvement.
BUT here’s the bad news lately — You didn’t think that everything was perfect over here did you? — I found out that I have a hernia. Thus meaning I have to get my second surgery in three months. Definitely not a great thing. My coach is pressing my athletic trainer and orthopedic surgeon to get the surgery scheduled as soon as possible, getting my recovery started before Christmas break. This is understandable as he has said that he wants me to be one-hundred percent when January rolls around along with our Spring training and season. Luckily, a hernia surgery is usually a pretty standard procedure, my athletic trainer is thinking that it’s more than likely going to be done laparoscopically, yielding a very short recovery time.
Pushing the fact of surgery aside, I only see this as a minor set back. It’s all just a test. “Can he handle a fractured foot the first week he’s here?”.. “How about a hernia right when he gets released to play?” The answer is yes, and yes! I’ll get through it, it could definitely be worse. This just gives me some more time to get pumped for the Spring season!!
No worries, no worries.
