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A season of firsts.
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First @unitedgridleague season as a coach
First season for the @nywolveshq 
First rookie expansion team to make it to playoffs
First team to have a player ejected from the Grid 🤣
First match to have both teams not finish the Sprint Relay 😅
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Some firsts are better than others. And I could also go off to list the individual firsts of each and every athlete on this team. (Like HELLO - so many people stepped up and learned new skills they didn’t think possible!)
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Did we want to take it all? Absolutely. Who doesn’t?
But what was more important to me was the learning we all did along the way.
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I was elected Coach of the Year - but I feel like my growth has only just begun. I’m learning and growing with every chance I get and every chance this team will give me.
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I’ll admit, I started with false confidence, putting on a brash air that I knew it all and could handle it myself. But in reality, I was insecure. I was trying to “prove myself” when I really didn’t have to. There’s a difference between demanding and commanding a team. I learned that quickly after our first match and continued to keep myself in check with the help of my captains, @mrosa516 and @karaceleste. To say I couldn’t have done it without them is an understatement.
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And holy hell, thank you to @jennpowers_wolf for supporting me and the team. She may be behind the scenes most of the time, but she has supported everyone in ways that we’ll never fully understand. She made sure our heads were in the game and we could focus on what truly mattered - the pack and the match at hand.
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So I’m proud of what we accomplished, but I know that there is so much more to be done. I’m going to keep growing. I know this family we’ve created will keep growing. And we look forward to taking that trophy next year 😜
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WOLVES ON THREE. 1…2…3… 🐺

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I wasn’t ready for it to end I knew eventually there would be a last warm-up. A last huddle. A last race. A last time I’d look around and see all of yall standing beside me wearin the same jersey. I just didn’t realize how hard that moment would be when it finally came. We didn’t finish this story holding a championship trophy and for a while I know that shits gonna hurt.

But someday when the disappointment fades I hope we understand what we actually did. Some of us started as strangers. A brand new team. A rookie team. A group of people trying to figure out how to compete together trust each other, sacrifice for each other and become something bigger than ourselves nd somehow along the way we became a team. Not just in name. But For real for real. 

We fought through losses. We celebrated wins. We traveled together. We trained together. We picked each other up. We frustrated each other. We laughed until our stomachs hurt. We stood shoulder to shoulder under pressure and kept showing up for one another and when everyone looked at us as the new team .. we made the playoffs. In our first year. That will always belong to us. Years from now, nobody in this picture is going to remember every score or every race but I think we’ll remember the feeling. 

I’ll remember that. I’ll remember all of you. Being your Captain was one of the greatest honors of my life. Not because I got to wear a title. Because you trusted me enough to let me lead you. And I hope, in some small way, I gave this team as much as this team gave me.

You gave me memories I’ll carry forever. You reminded me why I love competing. You gave me another family. And you gave me a season that I wish, somehow, I could rewind and experience one more time.
One more practice.
One more flight.
One more locker room.
One more huddle.
One more time hearing us called the New York Wolves. We wanted a championship. We didn’t get it. But I will never look at this season as a failure. Because trophies eventually collect dust. What we built together doesn’t.

To every athlete, coach, staff member and person who believed in us:
Thank you
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A good friend of mine asked me the “secret to the Wolves’ rookie-year success”…

We've likened our success this season, perhaps ad nauseam, to our recently anointed hometown heroes, the New York Knicks: tenacity in the face of adversity, intensity in spite of reserved dispositions, appreciation for similarities, respect for differences, and a willingness to distill all of that into the focus required to execute in a sport where you barely have time to count your own reps. But the grid has heard all that before, so what is the true "secret" to our success? Sacrifice. It's what no one has seen but everyone has felt. In a league that is still developing its financial incentives and player accolades (both of which are improving!), our team has committed to showing up and being something more than a collection of leaders in our respective spaces. We've put aside our egos and surrendered our weekends, all for the person next to us. Everyone has their own reasons for competing, but it's the sacrifices we share that make us a team.

Personally, I don't think i've ever felt this disappointed in a loss, but I know it just means that I was a part of something special. Holding on to this feeling so that I never have to go through it again. 

Congratulations to @fortlauderdalelions on the well-deserved playoff win and the @swflsharks for taking the whole thing. A big thank you to @unitedgridleague leadership for giving us the opportunity to further the league by showcasing our athleticism and to the volunteers for the endless hours of work. Last but not least, thank you to our support squad - your sacrifices were inarguably the greatest.

The rookie season is over, but the @nywolveshq will be back.

bonus pic of demon mode
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Pack on the move 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

A PROUD MOMMA WOLF 🦋🐺

From the floor at @americandream to the road to Lakeland. This pack is locked in. Thank you, American Dream, our title sponsor, for believing in us. 

This pack is hungry.  We hunting. 

Playoffs bound. Let’s unleash. 

Tickets in bio. Dm for discount

RPFUNDING CENTER
701 W. Lime Street
Lakeland FL 33815

#meethepackthatchangedeverything #nywolves WolvesRise #EmpireBuiltNeverBroken #roadtolakeland
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It’s muthafuggin’ championship week baby! 🐺 
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I have a lot of thoughts, feelings, and emotions surrounding this season and this team. But I’ll save the sentimental stuff for after the matches.
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All I can say is I could not have done this with any other team. This is what a pack, a family, looks like.
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I can’t wait to watch these athletes truly put their name in the @unitedgridleague history books.
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Scroll to the last pic for a little laugh.
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