Softball goals remain constant in new co-op

New team, same dream.

That’s the mindset of the new softball co-op.

After joining a new coop last year, the team had a rocky start. But going into their second season as a co-op things are going much smoother.

Out of the 23 players on the team, 16 are from SPA, six are from TCA, and one player is from Great River.

Infielder Poppy Ploen agrees that starting a new co-op delayed the teams community: “It took a second for us to warm up to each other because we’d all been playing on teams separately,” she said.

But the co-op has it’s advantages, “We are significantly stronger than we have been in some of our past years,” Ploen said.

Tamari Christopher is only in eighth grade but has been playing varsity since the beginning of middle school.

She is excited for a fresh start, “...learning new things and meeting a bunch of people,” Chr- ristopher said.

Despite the issues with late snow and wet fields, the softball team has gotten solid practice time and won their first two games Apr. 10 and 14.

Their next game is Apr. 25 at 4:30 p.m. vs. Minnehaha Academy at home.