The sophomore with the University of Florida Gators, based out of Gainesville, Fla., scored in a 2-1 loss to Texas A&M on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Fletchers Lake product said it is a moment she will not soon forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt felt awesome to score my first collegiate goal,\u201d said Kennedy in an interview with The Laker News over Twitter. \u201cI can\u2019t even begin to describe the excitement that took over as I watched the ball hit the back of the net. It really is an indescribable feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne thing that made it even more special was having an amazing team and coaching staff to celebrate with. They seemed just as excited as I was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said returning to the locker room after the game and seeing all the \u201ccongratulations\u201d messages and other messages filled with love from friends and family back home meant the world to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt felt like a long-time coming,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kennedy said she would easily have traded the goal for a win for her team, which sits at 1-2-1 (won-loss-tie).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOf course, I wish we could\u2019ve come out of the game on top,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said the Gators coaching staff really stress the importance of playing a simple game no matter the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPlaying one-touch and two-touch soccer is what we do best,\u201d she said. \u201cDuring the Texas A&M game we started a little slow and lost our style of play a little bit, but the lead up to the goal was exactly how we like to play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kennedy described the goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt started near our own goal after the ball popped off our crossbar, we progressed up the field playing one and two-touch soccer, simple passes,\u201d she said. \u201cMy teammate Madi Alexander got a toe on the ball outside the 18-yard box to set me up for the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the goal she ran and leapt into the arms of her teammates on the Gators sidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With COVID19 restrictions in place, even getting to play is a miracle as many games across the U.S. have been cancelled or postponed as the outbreak spreads with no sign of being under control anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis season has definitely been strange,\u201d said Kennedy. \u201cWith all of the unknowns it\u2019s awfully hard to look too far ahead. Obviously, collegiate soccer games all over the nation have been cancelled, postponed, etc. due to Covid impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are trying our best as a team to take everything one day at a time and be grateful for every chance that we get to touch the ball whether it\u2019s during practice or a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is just another instance where adversity has brought our team even tighter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”92″] [adrotate banner=”93″] GAINESVILLE, FLA.: Even a few days after scoring her first-ever NCAA Division 1 women\u2019s soccer goal, Sydney Kennedy was still having trouble describing it. The sophomore with the University of Florida Gators, based out of Gainesville, Fla., scored in a 2-1 loss to Texas A&M on Oct. 11. The Fletchers Lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957,21],"tags":[65,334,1517,1518],"class_list":["post-17278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-sports","tag-fletchers-lake","tag-soccer","tag-syd-kennedy","tag-univeristy-of-florida-gators-sooceer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed3-1024x682.jpg\")
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