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Men's Soccer Program Philosophy
The UC Santa Cruz Men's Soccer Program is driven
by two goals. The first is to win a National Championship! Since the year
2000, UC Santa Cruz Men's Soccer has built one of the most well respected
and competitive programs in the country, and we enter every season with
the goal of brining the National Championship home to UC Santa Cruz. We
enter everyday of training and every game with that goal in mind, but
as always we view our results as an extension, not the definition of our
character. We accept that we cannot control the outcome of a season, but
we affirm that we can control our approach. We choose to approach each
season as champions do, with intense desire, a great love for each other,
and the game.
The second and more important goal is to seek our
full potential on the soccer field and in all areas of our lives. We affirm
that we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but
a habit. The Slug Soccer program cultivates and builds the habit of performing
our very best every single day, in everything we do. We challenge each
other physically, mentally and spiritually to improve and find new levels
of greatness within.
As Slugs we believe that the things that it takes
to be successful on the soccer field are some of the very same things
that it takes to be successful in life, and the true measure of the Slugs
Soccer program will never be at the end of a season, but tens of years
down the line as the people that this program produces touch the lives
of those around them.
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