7 Quotes by Shek Borkowski

Because we accomplished so much the last couple of seasons, we no longer have to explain who we are to everyone. However, I do know that if we have a bad season or two, all the good stuff we have started here will become more difficult to keep going.

His wife works at Goshen College. Here is a guy who has trained national track athletes in Bulgaria and he kind of fell right into our lap.

The payoff is to make the national team. The pay is very good there, as well as in the reserve pool. So the reason these players come here is so they can train under high quality coaches and hopefully get a shot with their national teams.

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Of course, we can't pay the college players. And there isn't any money to pay the others. So one of our sponsors is Ramada Inn, and they have given us five rooms so that takes care of 10 women. The others live with families during the season. Some of them who are able to work here get jobs, but we practice twice a day and because of how spread out the league is, there is a lot of travel as well.

It's a great league for college players, or maybe someone in their early 20s, who wants to play at the higher levels. But there is no money in it for anyone. Everyone does it because they love the game.

I had to say 'no' to a couple of players. Last year they were saying 'no' to me.