placed it with soccer. "I was very excited to be able to play soccer at the college level,'' Lunda said. "But I also had this kind of lump in my heart for my teammates in field hockey … for them … their dreams were kind of dashed.'' Lunda still has some vivid memories from soccer's
transi-
tion from a club sport. "We just wanted to play,'' she said. "We borrowed men's uniforms and sold chocolate bars to make mon- ey.''
There was also the time the
team was scheduled to play at a tournament in Indianapolis. Ex- cept nobody knew how they were going to get there. Loren Seagrave, a former UW women's assistant track coach, was a family friend, so Lunda asked him if they could borrow his van for the trip. "He said, 'Sure, but there's just
one problem — it doesn't start,''' Lunda recalled. "My dad got his mechanic to put a new battery in the van but there was another problem: no front passenger seat. So we duct-taped a lawn chair to the front and we all packed in.'' Lunda embodied the slogan
While she was honing her skills in one sport, she
was helping organize another on the Madison cam- pus. "We started a club soccer team my freshman year,'' she said, "and by my sophomore year we had enough (players) for two club teams.'' In retrospect, it was a good thing that she had a fallback. "Field hockey was struggling to field a team be- cause we really didn't have a feeder program; it wasn't played in high schools in the Midwest,'' she said. "My senior year was very bittersweet.'' That's because UW dropped field hockey and re-
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"Just Do it'' well before it was cre- ated in 1988. "We just did what it took because we wanted to play,''
she said, "and everybody was out there because of that.''
Maximizing her playing opportunity, Lunda led
the UW team in goals (22), assists (18) and points (62) in her only season of competition (1981). Those records still stand. Despite earning All-American recognition, her
soccer career had pretty much run its course. "Peo- ple have said, 'It's too bad you were ahead of your time,''' she said. One of those people was Craig Webb, the former
