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Meghan Miller is the goalie for the Kansas soccer team. Miller said, "Goalie is probably the most insane position ever. I just have a calling to be insane."
GOALIE:Dress and attitude make players unique
the team and Superior, Wis., junior, feels most like an outsider. He's not included in the celebration.
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In high school his teammates would skate past him and tap his pads with their sticks, but not in college.
Not only do goalies face the pressure of giving their team a chance to win every game, they do it alone.
Because of the nature of their position, they are the outsiders on the team. One glance at the field or ice, and it's the goalies who stick out.
"You're so excited for your team," he said. "But no one can really tell."
In soccer and lacrosse they wear different colored jerseys than the rest of their teammates. In lacrosse they also wear a face mask and have a stick with a bigger net. In hockey the goalies wear unique padding. They have a stick with a wider blade, different skates that allow them to move from side to side in their crease and a face mask.
Goalies also train differently from the rest of the team.
This can be somewhat lonely.
"I don't have anything else to do," she said. "I might as well talk to myself."
For Miller, this is especially true during practice. Often when her team is practicing downfield, she'll look off into the distance and talk to herself.
But during a game she has mental clues to keep her focused when the action is at the other end of the field. When a player passes midfield, that's when she knows she has to be focused.
"It's impossible to focus for 90 minutes," she said. "Everybody has mental lapses in the game, but you have to learn how to snap out of those and come right back in the game."
Because maintaining focus is imperative for goalies, fans often heckle them to break their concentration.
The goalie is standing still, so fans know she can hear them, Miller said. But she isn't bothered by the heckling. She thinks it's hilarious and finds herself joining in when she's a fan.
Hey goalie, goalie
Every time Miller punts the ball at games at the University of Texas, she is greeted with chants of "you suck" from the fans.
"I heckle with the best of them," she said. "If they have any good lines, I try to steal them."
Even teammates tend to give goalies the hardest time.
McGarry gets called "sieve" as a nickname by some of his teammates. The term suggests his blocking is as effective as a sieve, which is a kitchen utensil used for
He hates the word.
"I just laugh it off," he said.
"But it bugs me a little bit."
Miller said taking crap from teammates was the hardest part of being a goalie.
"Goalies stick out," she said. "So if you mess up, of course you're going to hear about it. We get the brunt of criticisms."
Smith, who Miller said never let her live down a mistake, knows that goalies are usually mentally strong.
Despite two concussions, all the bruises and shots to the head, he wouldn't switch positions.
"We can give them a hard time," Smith said, "and they can handle it."
McGarry said he'd always found it so much more exciting to stop someone from scoring than to score himself.
Bring it on
"I love the pressure," he said
He likes the solitude of the position. He likes being the one the game comes down to.
Even after his one big glove save in the pick-up game, McGarry's teammate Schultz isn't about to trade places with him. But he does have a better appreciation for goalies.
"They are the most important players," he said.
Edited by Nikki Nugent
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