Going to have some fun and shine some more light on our Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ team at the same time this morning 🌄.
What the pictures above show are the rosters from the two Soccer ⚽️ teams scheduled to meet on the pitch at 5: 30 pm.
If Mother Nature allows the match to be played, announcing this game will become the single largest challenge in my 40+ years of PA work.
What in the World 🌎 makes this one so different ? Could it really be harder than calling an Appalachian State University Field Hockey 🏑?
The App State games are full of European names that sometimes have five or six syllables in them, both teams are that way for those games.
But in those games we only announce the starters from both teams and the Coaches, roughly 25 in all. I’m not European but I am of perfectionist decent. I truly feel its just as important to be spot on with the visitors names as our own.
Announcing for Coach Tickle the other night put the total number of Carroll County High School teams at 11. Always happy to help out our programs when I am in town but this one is going to be different because of two things..
First, the shear volume of names that will be read out loud in the opening ceremony. The number, once you include coaches will land right at 50. Even if you are familiar with all fifty names, its a challenge to add energy to that many names in a row.
Second, I count 13 names that could be pronounced one way or another. That’s 25% of the group. So even if you ask all 13 exactly how to say their name before the match, which I will do, you then have to store all of those answers to your brain 🧠.
So why would one agree to attempt something that requires so much Brain 🧠 space and has such a wide margin for errors ?
Because that’s how much I believe in the efforts of Ben Tickle and Shana Parnell. Their efforts for our 21 Student Athletes is appreciated 🙏 by us out here in the Village.
Now we just need it to be warm enough to play !
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