Goals to Achieve and Goals to Keep

Wesley Sotomayor and Bhoomi Rana | October 30, 2025

Girls’ Soccer Team: The team poses for a group picture. October 2025. Photo courtesy: Stephen Bell.

The Girls’ Varsity Soccer team has many goals for the 2025 season, both on and off the field. The team’s main goal was to improve its record and make it to states. With their state game tomorrow, the team looks to extend its record to 12-5.

New head coach Stephen Bell states, “It’s a good group…I’m pretty fortunate with four very good captains, seniors, that lead the group really well…”

Being the new head coach this year, Coach Bell has many tasks to follow up on. He expresses how he feels about this new position: “The environment’s been great…the level of soccer players has been fantastic.”

With practice most days and games together, the players have grown to become good friends, showing that the soccer team not only focuses on the sport, but the relationships you can make as well.

Many of the players have personal goals that they work together to achieve, and some have already been accomplished.

Senior Soccer Captain, Allison Ryan says, “One of my goals was becoming a captain, and I’m glad that I am because now I’m able to provide a legacy for the people after me.”

Many team members have their own thoughts and opinions on what they put into the team as well. This could influence their actions and decisions on and off the field.

Team on the Field: The team wrapping up the game, October 9, 2025. Photo courtesy: Wesley Sotomayor.

Jillian Romeo, a sophomore, has been playing on the team as a forward and left wing for two years now. She expresses how she feels about the sport: “It allows me to disengage from everything going on in my life…90 minutes of just soccer.”

Many players feel the same way Romeo does, showing that soccer is more than just a sport to players.

Romeo adds that when she plays easier teams, she seems to brush it off and not worry about it much, but for the difficult teams, she has the mindset, “I need to be better, I need to improve. It’s a good learning opportunity for me.”

This truly shows how players may feel on the team without expressing it out loud.

As the season comes to an end, the girls’ varsity soccer team finishes strong as they go to compete at states. Girls’ soccer plays on Friday, October 31, at home for the first round of states. They are ready to take on Ansonia and aim to win the game for Foran.

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About the Contributors

Wesley Sotomayor, Staff Writer

Hi, my name is Wesley Sotomayor, and I’m a sophomore at Foran High School. This is my first year taking journalism, and I am a staff writer. I picked journalism because I was told I would enjoy it, and I like learning about the people and places around me. At Foran, I am involved in volleyball, indoor and outdoor track, and choir. In my free time, I enjoy hanging out with friends, being with family, and playing/doing sports. Some other things about myself are that I have three cats, I love fall, and I like working out.

Bhoomi Rana, Staff Writer

Hi, my name is Bhoomi Rana, and I’m a freshman at Foran High School. This is my first year taking journalism, and I am a staff writer. I picked journalism because I love writing and learning about the people and places around me. At Foran, I am planning on joining clubs like Key Club. In my free time, I enjoy playing volleyball and playing the piano.