Head soccer coach G Guerrieri shares his thoughts on the return of student-athletes to campus on Monday:
"Obviously this has been a difficult semester, if you go all the way back to the last time we saw our players on the 6th of March when they took off to go on Spring Break and Spring Break hasn't really finished in a lot of ways. So now that we're able to test our players, now that we already have a third of the team back on campus, it's getting more towards normal.
"It's great to see them. We've been able to meet through Zoom meetings and other interactions that were not real face-to-face meetings, but now that we're able to get ourselves more into where the players are back in training, the players are back in our facilities over at the Player Development Center, all of those things start to point towards normalcy and towards getting ourselves back to where we need to be.
"We're the first team out. We have our first game on August 7 when Stephen F. Austin comes to town for a preseason exhibition. That'll be the first athletic event for Texas A&M this academic year. In one way, I want that day to be here tomorrow, and in another way we have some catching up to do. I'm just pleased that we finally have our players starting to come back so we can get ourselves into game shape as soon as possible."
"Obviously this has been a difficult semester, if you go all the way back to the last time we saw our players on the 6th of March when they took off to go on Spring Break and Spring Break hasn't really finished in a lot of ways. So now that we're able to test our players, now that we already have a third of the team back on campus, it's getting more towards normal.
"It's great to see them. We've been able to meet through Zoom meetings and other interactions that were not real face-to-face meetings, but now that we're able to get ourselves more into where the players are back in training, the players are back in our facilities over at the Player Development Center, all of those things start to point towards normalcy and towards getting ourselves back to where we need to be.
"We're the first team out. We have our first game on August 7 when Stephen F. Austin comes to town for a preseason exhibition. That'll be the first athletic event for Texas A&M this academic year. In one way, I want that day to be here tomorrow, and in another way we have some catching up to do. I'm just pleased that we finally have our players starting to come back so we can get ourselves into game shape as soon as possible."