{"id":2412,"date":"2016-02-03T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2016-02-03T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T21:54:53","slug":"emily-macdonald-signs-with-assumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2016\/02\/03\/emily-macdonald-signs-with-assumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily MacDonald Signs With Assumption"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From her sweeper position in the soccer backfield, Emily MacDonald always had a panoramic view of her Williston teammates as they battled their opponents downfield. That perspective may have been a key to her remarkable success. \u201cSomething that has always inspired me and keeps me going no matter what the situation might be,\u201d says the senior honor student and team captain from Ludlow, \u201cis seeing other people want something just as bad as you do, or seeing someone working their butt off, which kind of lights the fire\u00a0for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, however, in the Dodge Room of the Reed Campus Center, all eyes were on Ms. MacDonald, as she signed a national letter of intent to continue her soccer career at Division 2 Assumption College in Worcester.<\/p>\n

Among those present was her coach, Jen Fulcher, who did her own share of admiring when Ms. MacDonald was on the field. \u201cEmily is just a beautiful soccer player to watch,\u201d she says. \u201cMuch of what she does is so difficult, and she makes it look so easy. We gave up fewer goals this season than we have ever given up. We broke the school record. That is clearly a team effort, but Emily was central to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The previous Williston record was set in 1997, when the Wildcats allowed 12 goals.\u00a0This year the team gave up a miserly 8 goals over the course of 15 games, and also recorded a record 10 shutouts.<\/p>\n

Ms. Macdonald will be joining an Assumption team led by head coach Kevin Meek that finished 10-8-1 last year. Ms. Fulcher says Assumption may move MacDonald to a forward position, which is where she plays for her Elite Clubs National League team, FC FSA. \u201cI really believe she could play anywhere on the field,\u201d Ms. Fulcher says. \u201cShe\u2019s one of the most talented kids we\u2019ve ever had when it comes to controlling the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily\u2019s parents, Melissa Kudla and Kurt MacDonald, are looking forward to their daughter\u2019s college career. \u201cWe cannot wait to see her play at Assumption,\u201d says her mother.\u00a0\u201cIt will be a very exciting and memorable moment for her when she steps on the field in Worcester for the first time. It hasn\u2019t always been easy\u2014long car rides, a lot of travel, missing events at school\u2014but she has really persevered and remained constant in her goal to play in college.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>And when she does take the field, she\u2019ll be bringing the memories of her Williston success with her. \u201cPlaying soccer at Williston for four years has given me so much more than I ever could have imagined,\u201d she says. \u201cI will always appreciate the support\u00a0that the girls soccer team\u00a0was given by the school and I will never forget the amazing memories that the team has given me to remember for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

View photos from the signing ceremony on Williston’s Flickr site.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From her sweeper position in the soccer backfield, Emily MacDonald always had a panoramic view of her Williston teammates as they battled their opponents downfield. That perspective may have been a key to her remarkable success. \u201cSomething that has always inspired me and keeps me going no matter what the situation might be,\u201d says the … Continue reading Emily MacDonald Signs With Assumption<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news","category-ncaa-commitments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}