Lucia Kruize, a sophomore student athlete attending Morningside University says that the most notable athletic failure would be choosing to come to Morningside. Lucia is a striker on Morningside’s women’s soccer team.

When asked about an athletic failure, Lucia said “I would say coming to Morningside, I don’t know if it’s necessarily a failure, but it was definitely not what I expected.”

She said that there are about forty five girls on the team, which creates a lot of competition to secure a spot on a roster of eighteen to twenty players. Lucia wasn’t expecting to have to compete with so many other players.

“We were such a big group coming in my freshman year. There were about twenty two girls that came in, so there’s a lot of competition on the team all the time and I just didn’t know it was going to be like that.”

While she says that coming to Morningside is what came to mind when asked about an athletic failure, Lucia did say that she still likes going to school and playing at Morningside. She said, “I think the word failure is wrong to use but that is probably the biggest failure I have experienced.”