What does it feel like to almost achieve a goal? To be so close to that elusive achievement, but narrowly fall short?

Bridget Boeger, in her district cross country final, finished in sixteenth place.

The top fifteen runners went to state.

However, to be a truly elite competitor, one must strive to learn from even the most painful of losses.

Boeger not only learned from this moment but cherishes it as one of her greatest moments, “That was really frustrating, but it was also my best moment because it was my best time and I knew I did the best I could.”

Boeger kept this chip on her shoulder going into the soccer season where she proved to be an extremely capable senior leader on the young and steadily improving team. Boeger sets her team up for success and believes they have set solid goals for this year. “I think our goals are to go over 500 and to start winning some of the harder games,” Boeger said, “Teams that we’ve been pretty close to in the past couple years.”

This goal seemed to begin to take shape a few weeks ago when the team shone in its victory over Parkway Central, which Boeger described as her best moment in a greyhound uniform, “We lost to them last year, we lost to them before and we’d been having a bad couple of games so it was really nice to win that game.

Although Boeger’s leadership is evident, she has high praise for another leader, her coach. “I really think [Coach Redmond] pushes people to do the best they can and he’s not one of those coaches that’s going to yell at you if you do something wrong,” Boeger said, “He’s going to be one of those coaches that you will want to make proud of you.”

Boeger has goals for her final season as a greyhound, but she also feels as though the team will keep improving after she leaves. “We only have a couple of seniors this year so our team is pretty young so I think everyone will be able to start stepping up when we leave next year,” Boeger stated.

With her final game in a greyhound uniform rapidly approaching, Boeger looked back on her notable CHS athletic career in a very positive light, “I love being a part of the teams and when you are in season with your team you have a lot more fun when everyone is going through the same thing at the same time. If you have a hard game you just all have to work together and I like that.”