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“After the match, I hugged each girl and told them you’ve got to be proud of the season we had,” first-year NIC coach Brittany Tilleman said. “We played with so much trust and energy when we’re on. Our practices help us compete for moments like this. It’s always been us against us. To do it against a team like that, we just weren’t prepared for that. Our season was a complete team effort and everyone involved. I’m sad to see the sophomores go, but I’m proud of them.”

“The reason I went after a lot of international kids was because, at the time, a lot of the local kids weren’t into NIC because of all the stuff we had going on,” Covill said. “They really weren’t into NIC because of the accreditation situation, so our roster wasn’t very big going into July. When we went from the NWAC to the NJCAA, I knew I had the ability to give full-ride scholarships, so I started to call some connections and they were emailing players.”