State of the Program: Men’s Soccer
PATIENCE IN THE PROCESS
Entering his second year at UW, John Trask's goal is less about fielding a team and more about building a program
By Mike Lucas
UWBadgers.com
It’s about the rhythm and the pieces, John Trask was saying about the finished product. Trust him, too. Trask, the UW men’s soccer coach, knows what a successful team should look like.
“It’s always a jigsaw puzzle for me,” Trask said. “It’s personalities that make a good soccer team and how you blend those personalities.
“I don’t think you need 11 super athletes. But you can’t get away with having 11 great soccer minds and no athleticism to go with it, either.”
While the Badgers may be getting closer to that balance, he knows that they’re not there yet. The turning points haven’t caught up with the turnover; 24 to 25 players in 13 months, Trask noted.
“It’s a process for the lack of a better word; I don’t know a better word to use, I wish I did,” Trask said. “But in all good programs, it’s a process to get to where you want to be.”
