Our first win...

2 days ago we got our first win of the Olympics against New Zealand. We scored 40 seconds into the game with a nice backhand shot from Keli Smith. The final score of the game ended up being 4-1 with us finally getting 3 points on the board. This helps our chances in getting into the medal rounds, but a lot of things have to happen within the pool for us to get in. Right now we just need to concentrate on our game tonight against Great Britain and we NEED to win in order to have a shot at getting into the medal rounds. Right now its hard not to look back and be frustrated with our previous ties against argentina and japan, especially when you know you have missed chances, but I guess that doesn't really help us right now. 

After our game against New Zealand on the 16th, we had the afternoon to spend with our families. I took a Taxi with some of my other teammates over to the Bank of America house again to hang out and eat lunch there. It was a pretty low key afternoon just lounging on the couch and watching some other olympic events on the TV. Other than that the day was pretty uneventful. Yesterday, though we had an exciting practice. Our captain, Kate Barber, has the nickname of tiki, and that drew some attention from the NFL star Tiki Barber. He has been doing some announcing for NBC and he came to our practice yesterday to observe and do some interviews with Kate. We gave him a stick to hit around with.. not too bad for never doing it before! After practice we then threw the football around with him. I tried to persuade my team to do the E-A-G-L-E-S chant, but I couldn't get them to do it... would have been funny though! 

So that was pretty much all the excitement from my last blog. Now we just have to wait the day out until we play tonight. If anyone feels up to it, our game will be on live at 6am on USA!! So here we go, last game of pool play in a must win situation...