After a successful fall season, the teamwent in to the Winter I (Nov/Dec) and Winter II (Jan/Feb) training programs with the thought of putting in the work needed to reach our main team goal for the 2004/2005 soccer year - acheive U14 Premier status for the 2006/2007 season.  Premier status is awarded to the four league winners of each district (North, South, East, and West) To reach this goal we would need to either 1) win the U13 Classic 1 East District outright, or 2) finish second in the East District and progress further in the summer State Tournament than the other three district (North, South, and West) second place teams. 

I didn't really have high hopes that we could win the East District as I knew that to do so we would have to get by a big, strong White Bear Lake team and a talented Renegades group.  My hope was that we could compete enough to vie for second place and then go into the State Tournament where anything could happen.  This is what happened when I coached the Inferno girls.  As a U12 team, we played up to U13 C1 age group the summer of 2003.  We finished second in the East District behind a very athletic Cottage Grove team.  So, we had to battle through the District Tournament to get to the State Tournament, and ended up winning the District Championship game in a shootout to emmerge as one of the last two second seeded teams to earn one of the two remaining U13 Premier spots.  Premier started at the U13 age group back then when now Premier begins at the U14 age group.  I remember that shootout victory well.  We were down 0-1 with less than 5 minutes to go.  Cait sent a huge cross in to our opponent's penalty box from our left flank and the ball deflected off one of the