Soccer team faces roadblocks

Nick Ducote

Loyola’s newly developed soccer club is currently looking for new team members, and more specifically, a new goalkeeper.

The club, which was established in the 2014 fall semester, has been unofficially practicing at The Fly for the past couple of months.

Students like Hikaru Yokoyama, an exchange junior from Japan, and teammates Katie Brousse and Merritt Baria, psychology freshmen, are players who are determined to get the club on track and recruit a goalkeeper position.

“Its hard to get going when we only have four or five people showing up to practice, but it’s definitely something that looks like it will develop more over time,” Baria said.

Although the team has had only eight to 10 people showing up for practices, Jeanette Zavala, the club’s captain and biology junior, said that they are still passionate about what they’re trying to set up at Loyola.

“The defense is there, the skill is there, but we need a keeper badly,” Zavala said.

The team is still young and building relationships, but they need more players and an official place to practice. They have slowly grown each semester by getting the word out.

“We will be tabling and putting together pick-up games in the residential quad in the future, but we need people to help us. We want to have fun and make this happen,” Brousse said.