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ATHENS, Ohio— The Ohio soccer staff held its first of 15 spring practices at present (March 19) inside Walter Fieldhouse.
Spring camp will conclude on Saturday, April 20 with the staff’s annual spring scrimmage. The scrimmage is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., climate pending. Extra details about the spring scrimmage and spring sale might be launched at a later date.
Acquainted faces on offense embody quarterbacks Parker Navarro (Tempe, Ariz.) and CJ Harris (West Bloomfield, Mich.), operating backs Rickey Hunt Jr. (Oklahoma Metropolis, Okla.) and Nolan McCormick (Mason, Ohio) and offensive linemen Shedrick Rhodes Jr. (McDonough, Ga.), Parker Titsworth (Wexford, Pa.) and Jacob Dennison (Mansfield, Ohio). Defensive returners embody defensive finish Bradley Weaver (Hilliard, Ohio), defensive deal with Rayyan Buell (Hornell, N.Y.), linebacker Shay Taylor (Mount Perry, Ohio), cornerback Torrie Cox Jr. (Miami Gardens, Fla.) and security Adonis Williams Jr. (South Euclid, Ohio).
The 2023 squad completed the common season with a 9-3 report, marking the primary time Ohio soccer completed consecutive common seasons with 9 wins. Notably, Ohio defeated Iowa State 10-7 at residence (Sept. 16) to mark its first Energy 5 win since 2017 throughout a five-game profitable streak.
After the Bobcats’ 41-21 victory over Georgia Southern within the 2023 Myrtle Seashore Bowl, Ohio recorded their second consecutive 10-win season, which is a program first. This bowl win additionally marked the Bobcats’ fifth bowl win in a row, tying the convention report for consecutive bowl wins.
Fourth-year head coach Tim Albin met with media at present to debate the upcoming weeks, returning athletes and what he loves about spring camp. The entire press convention is embedded under.
Feedback from fourth-year head coach Tim Albin:
On beginning spring camp
“If you’re constructing a staff this time of 12 months, it is a new journey. Our eight-week conditioning program to get up to now has been excellent. I believe you are going to see a variety of new faces, significantly on offense, which can be keen for his or her probability to exit and shine. So at present was day one. We’re not a completed product but, however I might definitely preferred the power and keenness the children are displaying.”
On the challenges that go along with having new faces on offense
“Final 12 months’s problem was the depth, particularly from a particular groups standpoint with the switch portal. We had guys that did not wish to play behind the present starters, and we took a success with our depth. This 12 months is type of the other on offense, which suggests now we have seven new spots on offense; there’s going to be nice competitors for this spring. So, once more, the final two seasons have been totally different— and that is what we’re within the strategy of coping with proper now— and the children are excited and keen.”
On new faces this spring
“I am going to begin with protection. We’re not going to have the ability to substitute Bryce and Keye. I do know that is what we will try to do, and our athletes are going to work their tails off to try this. I like what I see. Shay [Taylor] performed nice within the bowl sport. He is accomplished an awesome job along with his management within the offseason. We will miss Justin Birchette as a senior nook[back], however I am enthusiastic about Kendall Bannister, Mekah Ryder and Tank Pearson. I believe there’s goingto be some alternatives there and a few nice competitors at nook. You are going to miss Vonnie [Watkins], however Bradley Weaver, Rayyan Buell, Kaden Smith… they’re the gius which can be going to be busting their tails to fill these roles.”
“Offensively, at quarterback: CJ Harris and Parker Navarro. They work extraordinarily arduous. They’re winners—they’ve gained bowl video games, scored touchdowns in these bowl video games. They’re excited. Rickey Hunt Jr. and Nolan McCormick are excited [after the bowl game]. I am excited for these guys. I advised the staff earlier than we began after stretch this morning that, ‘Hey, I am excited to look at these guys get on the market and apply the eight weeks of labor they’ve accomplished up up to now, and it is a good first day.'”
On the necessary of spring observe
“Primary factor: you possibly can discuss x’s and o’s, the offense and the employees are finding out totally different concepts and asking, ‘what can we do higher? What can we like, add, subtract.’ However on the finish of the day, it is concerning the neighborhood and the journey that we’re occurring and constructing togetherness. Soccer is the primary staff sport on the planet. You’ve got obtained so many transfer half—22 folks on the sphere for a similar time within the spring. The ‘mortar’ piece of this for us is the tradition outdoors of right here. They are saying tradition, but it surely’s mortar inside these partitions, and I believe that is a very powerful factor.”
On Rickey Hunt Jr.
“I believe he is aware of he can do it. He had a reserve function all 12 months, and he was given the chance and look what he did. And I wish to say, there have been a number of performances identical to that. He could not have gotten that accomplished with out the offensive line. There’s a variety of team-oriented and selfless roles in that sport to get that accomplished. I wish to finish it with a very powerful factor for spring: for us to get that accomplished is about what we’re doing proper now. We’re constructing and now we have a ‘next-man up’ mentality and a championship mindset. I believe that is actually a really highly effective factor for our employees and our program.”
On quarterbacks CJ Harris and Parker Navarro
“Proper now we’re spitting it [first team reps] evenly. I have never watched the movie but, however that is what it appears to be like like on the script from at present’s observe. We predict it will likely be even and it is going to be an awesome competitors.”
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