Women’s soccer starts practice for upcoming season

The Virginia Tech women’s soccer team began practicing onFriday for the start of the 2008 season. The team took the field at 8:15 a.m.,for the first of two sessions in preparation for a challenging fall schedule.The Hokies will spend the upcoming weeks training, learning to play togetherand conditioning as the squad looks to qualify for the NCAA Tournament for thesecond time in the last five years and to improve on last season’s 8-7-3overall record.

Inaddition to a Maroon and White intra-squad scrimmage on Monday Aug. 11, Techwill also scrimmage the Brams United U-18 Canadian Youth Team on Friday Aug. 15and will host Ohio University on Monday Aug. 18 in an exhibition match. Eachscrimmage will give the players more experience in game-like situations andwill also provide the coaching staff with an opportunity to evaluate the team’sprogress and potential.

Followingthe Ohio exhibition match, the Hokies will have two last days of preseasonpractice before traveling to Davidson to take on the Wildcats on Saturday Aug.23 in the season opener.