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Dawley remembered by team

The women’s soccer team will never forget.

It has been over nine months since the team played it’s last game at Cochrane Field, just one day after its friend and teammate Leslie Dawley passed away.

Now, about to begin a new season, the Falcons will look to move forward while at the same time remembering their teammate.

Falcons’ head coach Andy Richards said it’s important for the team to honor Leslie while focusing on the new season.

“We want to respect Leslie’s memory, and remember what a great kid she was,” Richards said. “Not just a great soccer player, but a great person who always had a smile on her face.”

Richards said the team remembers Leslie as much now for what she meant to the team as a person.

“It’s a difficult one to deal with,” Richards said. “The kids talk about Leslie on many occasions, and more now then ever, in the light-hearted sense. It’s a balance.”

To honor Leslie, the team will wear a number 18 (Leslie’s number) on the left arm of both its game and practice jerseys this season.

“We’re going to have a daily reminder of her, not that we wouldn’t be thinking about her anyway,” Richards said. “It’s a very apparent thing for us.”

The team will also dedicate a memorial to Leslie in the right-hand corner of Cochrane Field Team CO-captain Carrie Richards said that the team will have Leslie in mind all season.

“We’re going to have her in mind, and she’s definitely missed,” Carrie said. “She’s still going to be thought about, especially when the MAC tournament comes by. She is in our hearts.”

This season, the team will also deal with losing Erika Flanders, it’s goalie and the Falcons unquestioned leader, who graduated and is now working as a graduate assistant with the women’s soccer team at the University of Creighton.

This season, Carrie and Kasey Freeman will each assume the role of co-captains.

Carrie said that while they won’t be able to replace Flanders, they will try to provide the leadership that the Falcons — still a young team — need.

“Erika was a great captain and a great leader on our team,” Carrie said. “I think Casey and I both have a challenge ahead of us. “Our goal is to keep the team pumped, and we’re going to do what we can.”

Richards said that the team looks for leaders to emerge before they reach their senior year.

“We have tried to identify younger kids within the program and tell them that they are going to be leaders,” Richards said. “So that some of the kids that are starting to come through…have time to adapt their own leadership style.”

The Falcons will begin this season by playing two games in Hawaii, beginning a week from Saturday against Arizona State.

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