The Corinth High School 2021-22 girls’ soccer team won two state playoff games and made it to the North Half championship.
Corinth girls soccer program has a landmark season Lady Warriors kick their way to north half
By TANNER MARLAR
For Crossroads Magazine
At the start of the 2021-2022 season, Corinth High School girls’ soccer head coach Cameron Glenn had no idea what to expect. West Lauderdale, who typically runs the state championship on the girl’s side of 4A, was lacking their usual crop of talent. Corinth, however, had one of its most cohesive groups the program had ever seen. The opportunity was there to make a deep state playoff run, but according to Glenn, that wasn’t the focus. “I think even a couple of girls PAGE 16
on the team said that if you would have told them that they’d be playing for the north half title, they would have kind of just laughed in your face,” said Glenn. “It hadn’t really been a reality for us for a while, just because West Lauderdale is so dominant in girls’ soccer.” With West Lauderdale out of the picture for at least this season, the door was open to any and all challengers. Coach Glenn and his band of Lady Warriors knew this, but it didn’t hit them until later on in their season. It was in a game against Caledonia, in which the Lady Warriors lost 2-1 via a last-minute goal from the Caledonia strikers.
In the words of coach Glenn, “it was a kind of a heartbreaker.” However, Corinth soccer fans couldn’t have told it by the attitude of the players. Each one of them held their heads high after that game, knowing full-well that they had just taken an incredibly competitive team that is used to making deep playoff runs down to the wire. “No one at the end of that game was like ‘wow, that’s the most heartbreaking situation ever,’” said Glenn. “I think everyone was just like ‘alright, well, we expected to come down here and get routed 7-0’, and it could have easily been that way, but we went down there with a tactical game
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plan and really frustrated them … the huddle after that game, every single one of those girls that were on that field was like ‘I feel good about this. I feel good about what we just did.’” Once the girls realized they could hang with and play with anybody, the season began taking on a magical form, particularly at the hands of team leaders Belle Mitchell and Emma Hall. Mitchell, a senior defender, was a vocal on-field leader and team captain. She was part of the glue that held the squad together, according to Glenn, making sure that everything and everyone was in the right place at the right time. 2021-22 Sports Rewind Edition
