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PHOTOGRAPHY I ISABELLE LUMB I I I I 1
& BRITTANY SHORE I I I I
STORY I SEAN DICAROLIS | | | L m
Through Thick and Thin, The sTuck together
Tor an unTorgeTTable season.

oming into this season, this year’s football final, the football players were ready to make
C team had expectations set sky-high. With good on their promise to reach the championship.
the mantra of “Unfinished Business”, they set
However, that night, which will likely go down in
out with one goal in mind: championship.
were stopped short of their goal when a twist of
Accomplishing this challenge got off to a slow history as one of the worst in each player’s life, they
start; after losing the first fate robbed them of the
three games, the team was “WITH THE MANTRA OF title. While the players

at last place in the division. reflected afterward,
As a team, the players had "UNFINISHED BUSINESS," trying to cope with not
to make the decision of accomplishing their goal,
whether to throw in the THEY SET OUT WITH ONE they looked back on the
towel and accept another season with thoughts of
mediocre season, or rally GOAL IN MIND: the sport, teammates,
and get back on track. and coaches that made
Over the next few weeks, CHAMPIONSHIP” their days so great.
the team worked itself from From broken podiums
aggravation to pride and confidence and began to to broken elevators, each player shared countless
turn the season around. After all, with the great memories with this football family, and the funny
core of guys on this year’s team, it was only a and enjoyable ones will always outweigh the somber
matter of time until they really got things rolling. ones. While it may not have ended the way that they
The team won five out of the next six games, and wanted it to, the good times could not be tarnished.
soon found itself poised to make a run deep into
the play-offs. The night of the conference semi­

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