brings Greek life to Rudd Field
Jennifer McGorty — they’re doing stuff
for team chemistry that we didn’t direct
them to do. They’re taking it upon
themselves.”
Though not a captain, senior forward
Catherine Brinkman will also play a key
role in not only helping acclimate the
freshmen, but by playing a big part on the
field.
As a sophomore in 2011, Brinkman
led the Phoenix in goals with five on the
season. Throughout her junior season
in 2012, she tallied just twice in 10
games while battling multiple injuries
throughout the year. Not to mention, she
started the first two games of the season
in goal, as both keepers were injured at
the start of the year.
While Neal has high hopes for the
forward in her final year with the Phoenix,
Brinkman is eager to regain the form she
had in 2011 and expand on it.
“I was here a lot of the summer working
with a lot of my teammates, especially a
lot of the injured girls,” Brinkman said.
“Pm really excited to get this started and
hopefully be injury-free and get back at
what I love doing.”
With all of the issues the Phoenix
was forced to overcome last season, Neal
believes the adversity and hardships Elon
worked through will only help the team
this year — especially the upperclassmen
who now know how to fight through
constant bad breaks.
“The interesting thing about last year
is if you look at the schedule from start to
finish and looking at the first half of that
schedule and the last half of that schedule,
it’s like two different teams played
the schedule,” Neal said. “That was an
interesting dynamic last year to see how
the team overcame diversity, got better
and grew and found ways to win late in
the year and put ourselves in a position
to win a championship and we were really
close. That will go miles for our team this
season. Miles.”
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