BEL AIR, Md. — For the primary time in class historical past, Harford Community College’s males’s and ladies’s soccer teams and volleyball group are all coming off a season the place they swept their respective area championships.
The males’s soccer group captured their first-ever Region 20 Division One championship final season, ending with a 13-5-3 document.
“To me, you do not actually know the extent of success of the group till perhaps 10, 15, 20 years down the highway in case you nonetheless acquired some guys from these teams which are attending these vital events in one another’s lives and you already know you had an actual profitable 12 months,” Bill Wardele, Harford Community College males’s soccer coach mentioned.
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Sam Dragunas, a sophomore on the soccer group expressed the emotional influence of their championship run.
“You get on the market, you get to the tip of the season. You acquired you profitable video games. It feels so good. It’s prefer it’s actual. It brings us collectively a lot on the ladies’s aspect,” he mentioned.
The ladies’s soccer group enters this season as three-time Region 20 Division One champions, led by fifth-year head coach Rebecca Volk.
“I do know what it is wish to play right here and I do know what it is wish to beat a few of our rivals, so I perceive that the that means and worth, you already know, in these moments can convey as a result of it sort of ties you to the longer term,” Volk mentioned.
Sophomore Kaylee Nordstrom mirrored on what final season’s championship meant to her.
“I acquired my second household. I discovered like my sisters and all the pieces like that, and it was so cool to create a brand new bond with all these ladies and what we had been in a position to accomplish with such a younger group,” Nordstrom mentioned.
The volleyball group received the Region 20 Division 2 and East District Championship for the second straight 12 months however may have new management this season with Marissa Kozlowski in her first 12 months teaching the Fighting Owls.
“These ladies have been very good, calm, relaxed and into it, and once more I am unable to, I am unable to be extra grateful for simply how straightforward everybody has made it on me,” Kozlowski mentioned.
Men’s soccer begins August 28. Women’s soccer kicks off August 23, and volleyball’s first recreation is August 25.
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