Athletes work hard to get ready for their season in the offseason. Some are working in the halls of Southwest and some are going out to workout places and indoor sports areas. They are running the halls, lifting weights and practicing to achieve their full potential for the start of the season.

    Senior Kelsey Hailey is a varsity soccer player who just recently signed to play next year in college for Milwaukee School of Engineering, or MSOE, is looking forward to a great last high school season this spring.

    “I will continue to train four days a week at SoccerFIT and run on the weekends,” Kelsey Hailey said. “ I’ve been training twice a week at soccer fit, twice a week for Legends, four days a week for Southwest conditioning, and whatever games I have on the weekends, so I am very busy.”

    Almost three fourths of the Southwest spring sports do conditioning in the winter in order to get ready for their spring seasons.

    “I don’t really have an offseason because I’m continuously playing soccer,” Hailey said. “Between club, high school, and 5 v 5 there is no offseason.”

    Every Southwest coach that has freely spoken about training in the offseason has said that it is key.

“I agree that athletes should at least be working out in the workout room at southwes,” sophmore Madeline Hoyt said.  “They need to know that an offseason isn’t a time to slack off.”

    Juniors Andrea Vietti and Kobi Miller, think that there are two types of athletes: the lazy ones and the committed ones. They believe that only the committed ones are going to be ready to shine when season comes around.

    “I know that we have the commited athletes,” Vietti said. “I see the determination in our athletes eyes and know that they aren’t lazy.”

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