Conversation With Emma Harris
10/13/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Oct. 13, 2005
On being named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week...
"It's always exciting to be recognized. But I try not to think about soccer as an individual. It takes a team effort to score a goal and I managed to score this weekend, but only because my teammates did a great job behind me putting me in a position to get good changes.
On the team's effort vs.
"We fell behind early against
On the team refocusing offensively...
"Coach Saxton reminded us that we need to be focusing on attacking the goal as a team. We want to be the aggressor and take the play to our opponents, rather than letting them come after us. We showed that this week with our ability to answer the other team's goals"
On the team's depth at the forward position...
We're very confident regardless of who we have out there playing forward, anybody we put out there is capable of scoring big goals for us. It helps because other teams can't focus on just one player because we have so many weapons this season.
On the potential of other teams game-planning specifically for her...
I haven't really noticed that happening yet. I try not to focus on what the other teams are doing, I try to keep my mindset on what I need to do. It's possible that they might start to mark me tighter but, like I said before, we have so many good forwards that it would be a mistake on their part to pay too much attention to just one person.
On the upcoming weekend and future Big Ten opponents...
"We are really trying to stay focused and take every game one at a time. Right now all we are concerned about it going to
On her continued climb up the Spartan record books...
"I just try to look at it as doing my job as best I can. As a forward my job is to score goals and from here on out I am just going to try to score as many as I can. I wont be counting them, that's not a concern of mine and neither are the records. I just want to do whatever I can to help out my team and finish this season successfully as a team."
On her career winding down...
"It's hard, because you start to think about it being over. You start to realize that these are your last few games, your last few road trips with your teammates and your friends. It's important to make every moment count because there are only so many left.
