COPLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Kami Ayoup works double obligation within the fall season. The varsity soccer goalie additionally doubles because the beginning kicker for the soccer workforce.
What You Want To Know
- Copley Excessive Faculty’s soccer workforce has a feminine kicker
- The kicker has made all however one in every of her additional factors
- She is one in every of three women on the workforce
“I needed to play soccer since I used to be youthful, however I used to be by no means in a position to get into it,” Ayoup stated. “My dad didn’t actually let me, however he would have let me if I attempted.”
She’s now a starter and has solely missed one additional level this 12 months. It solely took her a couple of day to make the transition. In a fancy sport like soccer, particular groups is the best to be taught, she stated.
“There are simply particular phrases which imply particular issues so that you simply have to recollect,” Ayoup stated.
She stated the one distinction between kicking in soccer and soccer is the form of the ball.
“With a soccer ball, for those who’re attempting to get it within the air you hit in beneath,” she stated. “Then it goes straight up. You hit it as laborious as you possibly can hit it beneath and it it goes up. However with this you possibly can’t hit it too far beneath as a result of for those who hit it too far beneath it spins and simply doesn’t go wherever.”
Head Coach Jake Parsons stated she‘s one in every of three women on the soccer workforce, although the opposite two are out with accidents. Each of the opposite women had been on the junior varsity workforce final season and noticed motion on the sector all through the season.
Parsons stated he noticed potential in his new kicker.
“We sat down we had a dialogue,” he stated. “I got here to her and knew what sort of athlete she is, what sort of individual she is. I knew she was somebody we needed to have round.”
Ayoup stated she isn’t terrified of trotting out on the sector, and no different woman ought to be both.
“I inform ‘em go for it, truthfully,” Ayoup stated.
