Houston Academy coach Tom Renshaw and Dothan High player Lauren Yu have been involved with soccer for as long as they can recall.
“I grew up in Washington state, so I started playing in a culturally-diverse area, where there were a lot of Greeks and kids from around the world in my neighborhood and we played soccer in the streets,” Renshaw remembers. “We’d play all night.”“I’ve been playing for like my whole life pretty much … since I was in kindergarten, five years old,” Yu said.
“She scored goals in games we dominated on the scoreboard and she scored goals in games that were back-and-forth battles against some of the best competition in the state. She is an intense competitor both in games and in practice, and the effort she brings every single day to get just a little better than the day before is one of the reasons why she was so successful this season.
“This year we really bonded as a team,” Yu said. “We had more chemistry and we had set days we would have team bondings and I think that really helped our team chemistry, because at the beginning we didn’t really know each other.”“Last year I made it and didn’t get player of the year,” Yu said. “I was OK with it, but I was like, ‘I’m going to get it this year.’ Now I’ve just got to move on from this.”“She’s amazing,” Yu said of her coach.
After marrying and moving to Dothan, Renshaw got involved with coaching when his son, Lucius, became involved with the sport. “It’s been great,” Renshaw said of coaching on the varsity level. “I feel like the cuffs are off. Our biggest goal this year was to really re-brand and rebuild our culture … a very positive environment, very team-oriented and family-type environment like a soccer team should be.
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