For Barone, no place like home
We discussed how much the Shenendehowa girls soccer team misses 5-year player Ashleigh Barone in Karly’s comeback, a blog written by Shen striker Karly DeSimone. Times Union writer Mark Singelais wrote...
View ArticleA goal reached
This is an ongoing blog written by Karly DeSimone, star striker for the Shenendehowa High School girls soccer team and formerly the Clifton Park Premier girls travel team. She worked hard off season in...
View ArticleWarrior girls: featuring Leah Rubino
The Niskayuna High School girls soccer team is known as the Silver Warriors. The girls in this soccer photo are warriors for a different reason. They are like the many girls featured in Michael...
View ArticleWarrior girls: featuring Meghan Mosch
In “Paying for Playing,” reporter Tom Keyser wrote this comment from Dr. Eric Aronowitz, the Capital Region’s surgeon of soccer players: “Have you ever seen them play? They’re rough. They’re very...
View ArticleWarrior girls: featuring Stephanie Maslyn and Elizabeth Capogna
Parents are reacting to this series. In comments under Leah Rubino’s post, a reader wrote about coaches being responsible for conducting proper warmups for athletes to help avoid these injuries. Keep...
View ArticleWarrior girls: Amanda Callanan
Amanda Callanan of Ballston Spa High School is our final athlete in this series. After tearing her ACL during a soccer game, she stayed off the playing fields for eight months. Even though it seemed...
View ArticleSalute to Ravena
If you’ve been following the series on ACL injuries, you might remember in my first blog I mentioned a couple of girls who just recently tore their ACLs. One of them was Ashley TenEyck. Shown in the...
View ArticleGet well, stay well
I have two “Get Well” cards to get in the mail. I’m not good at cards: the process of writing it out, sealing it, addressing it, putting a stamp on and depositing it in a mailbox. What I’m pretty good...
View ArticleSoccer injuries hit close to home
My daughter is a senior this year and we are at the peak of knowing “who’s who” on the soccer fields after five years of playing premier level soccer and five years at the high school level. This year,...
View ArticleKarly’s comeback now complete
This is the time of year I spend pouring over the NCAA brackets to see what teams and local players make the tournament in women’s soccer. Karly DeSimone, who played for Shenendehowa High School and...
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