The vigorous speed and agility and sacrifice of parties and time with friends for practice would be put to the test for the Midewest Regional Tournament in Sioux Falls South Dakota. Our convidence was as high as ever after we were crowned champions of the State Cup and were appointed a new title, the best u13 girls soccer team in michigan, and this was quite the title to hold.



The Regional tournament is held every year in during summer for both boys and girls, ages u13 to u18 All the regions in the country hold this tournament. The State Cup champion of each state in the midwest region attends this tournament, so it contains some very difficult competition. If you win regionals all the ages above u13 conyinue onto the National Tournament.



We began our season very poorly and were known to many teams as the underdog. We would never be thought as state cup finalists or much less even make it make it to regionals. But when we played in the quarter,semis and finals our performance surprised all spectators and shocked everyone when they heard the news of our victories.



Two weeks beforebregionals we worked as hard as ever to get to our highest fitness and skill so we would be ready to face our competition.



It was two days before regionals and we began the long dreadful trip to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. we drove hours and hours with a view of nothing but farms. Finally we entered a small town outside of Sioux Falls where our motel was. We enterd the motel parking lot seeing a semi truck in almost every parking space. Our room was nice for a motel but not even close to our usual standard. The little island that laid in the middle of the parking lot was where we would play games, eat and have meetings.



The next day we began our games. Our first two oponents were Kentucky and Nebraska, we resulted in victory for each of these games. We had only one more game in the preliminary round against South Dakota, if we were victorious of this game we would continue on to the semis. The last seconds of the game passed by and the whistle blew as we screamed in excitement, "semis here we come".



Game day was here and we were warmed up and focused on a win. The team we faced were the Chicago Eclipse, a very good aggressive team. We all worked hard the whole game , it was close but losing was not an option for us.



We now had made it to the finals, all of us sore and tired, but ready. We faced Carmel from Indiana, who in my opinion was the best team I have ever played. I could feel the extra practices and difficult sprints working to our advantage and all the hard practice sessions would deffinatly be worth it in the end. It was 2-1 when the whistle blew and I experienced the greates feeling possible.



That day our team, the Michigan Hawks, were crowned the best in the midwest.