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With six straight losses, Northwestern Women’s Soccer looks to be a different team than they were when they started the season. Anya Weerapana reflects in her second-to-last column. insidenu.com/northwestern-wo…
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That's all from Ciaravino and West. It was a short presser for the two of them, who were both visibly dejected by the 'Cats' 35-point loss.
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West on the exhibition loss: "We're still zero and zero." "At the end of the day, we got to just go back into practice and get ready for the next game."
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West said that he didn't think "anything necessarily" changed in-between the halves in his mindset and accredited his scoring in the second half to the confidence ehe got from "seeing a couple go down."
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Ciaravino on the returning players' leadership role: "Definitely a lot of responsibility... [we're] just trying our best to take guys along and take that leadership role and kind of lead by example out there."
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Jake West and Angelo Ciaravino to the podium.
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That's all from Coach Collins.
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Collins on what the coaching staff's approach will look like over the next week: "We've got to regain these guys' confidence." "I think a couple guys' confidence is taking right now and it's on me, with my staff, to build them back up."
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Collins emphasized that the 'Cats' regular season opener on Monday will be a "fresh start" for his players and said he was "confident" that his guys would bounce back from their exhibition losses.
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Collins on Ciaravino and West's role with this team: "I think their leadership is huge."
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Collins was complimentary of how West settled into the game in the second half and "did a good job" getting by guys and scoring.
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Collins: "I think we'll get back to the practice floor on Tuesday and we'll put a week together and hopefully you'll see a much different basketball."
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Collins: "Your habits are tested under pressure against people who are trying to take you out of what you do." Collins said he thought the team struggled in the first half but found some offensive momentum in the second period.
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