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What is our projected starting lineup? 

I see Evans and Montoya starting. Who else should join them?

I'll venture some uninformed thoughts, since no one actually knowledgeable has chimed in yet! The unknown is the incoming freshman class, I hope a few of them will be of future star quality and play right away. We lost three very important players from last year: a major star in Doms, our excellent GK Ryan Campbell, and Kennedy Wesley on defense. We have two returning star players (Aikey and Evans) and a host of experienced, good but not yet great players. GK is our most important unknown this year; backup Craig got little time last year and it showed with some shaky moments. We have to hope she will rise to the level of play we need, or one of the younger GKs will. 

After Aikey (a midfielder/forward combo), we have two excellent forwards in Montoya and Kitahata, but also good forwards in Grillione and Williams, and two back-to-the-goal type forwards in Wolf and Kostmayer. Defense is led by Evans, and Harvey did a good job at holding mid last year. After them we have a lot of good, experienced but not necessarily standout defenders. Bhuta will continue to start in midfield and I thought Jung was good job in midfield last year, but there will be opportunities for the new freshman to break into the lineup in the midfield and in defense (and even forward if they're good enough). It should be a very strong team overall, assuming we get good GK play. The returning players really know how to play in our system, and the best new players will have a high learning curve in the pre-season and get more time as the season goes on. Last year we played a lot of younger players, and the improvement in our play from the first couple games to the end was the best I can remember, just stellar. (compliments to the coaches!).

[oldalum]

What is our projected starting lineup? 

I see Evans and Montoya starting. Who else should join them?

I'll venture some uninformed thoughts, since no one actually knowledgeable has chimed in yet! The unknown is the incoming freshman class, I hope a few of them will be of future star quality and play right away. We lost three very important players from last year: a major star in Doms, our excellent GK Ryan Campbell, and Kennedy Wesley on defense. We have two returning star players (Aikey and Evans) and a host of experienced, good but not yet great players. GK is our most important unknown this year; backup Craig got little time last year and it showed with some shaky moments. We have to hope she will rise to the level of play we need, or one of the younger GKs will. 

After Aikey (a midfielder/forward combo), we have two excellent forwards in Montoya and Kitahata, but also good forwards in Grillione and Williams, and two back-to-the-goal type forwards in Wolf and Kostmayer. Defense is led by Evans, and Harvey did a good job at holding mid last year. After them we have a lot of good, experienced but not necessarily standout defenders. Bhuta will continue to start in midfield and I thought Jung was good job in midfield last year, but there will be opportunities for the new freshman to break into the lineup in the midfield and in defense (and even forward if they're good enough). It should be a very strong team overall, assuming we get good GK play. The returning players really know how to play in our system, and the best new players will have a high learning curve in the pre-season and get more time as the season goes on. Last year we played a lot of younger players, and the improvement in our play from the first couple games to the end was the best I can remember, just stellar. (compliments to the coaches!).