The women's soccer club officially kicks off its season Feb. 25 at the FSU Tournament in Tallahasse, Fla.
Tryouts for the spring team are Feb. 10 from 8 to 9:30 p.m. at the Auburn Soccer Complex on Wire Road.
Tryouts will also be held next Tuesday and Thursday at the same time and location.
Tryouts take place every semester, and the number of members selected is primarily based on the amount of players the team lost from the previous season, said Katherine Fingerman, club president and senior in mechanical engineering.
Head coach Cihan Uzunpinar, graduate student in polymer engineering, said half of the team usually consists of new freshman.
Previous team members don't get a pass and must also try out.
"Just because someone played before does not mean they will play again," Uzunpinar said.
Practice is held weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at the Wire Road soccer complex.
Uzunpinar said finding team members during spring semester can be more difficult because people get more involved with academics.
However, Uzunpinar is optimistic about the team's potential this season.
"Every semester we have a really good team because most of the girls were playing in high school, and they are coming here, and they really want to play," Uzunpinar said.
The length of the team's season is primarily based on what games they can get scheduled, but this semester there are four weekends of games during a seven-week period.
The team's most anticipated game is in the Clemson tournament April 1-3, Fingerman said.
"We usually do really well in the tournament," Fingerman said. "So we usually walk away disappointed if we don't win it since we've come so close the past four or five semesters."
Uzunpinar said the Clemson tournament hosts several quality teams from Florida, the Carolinas and Virginia.
The club has both a fall and spring season, and the team competes within a national association of club teams and mainly competes against teams from across the Southeast.
Typically the number of team members ranges from 16 to 24, with some years having more than 24 members, according to Lawrence Molt, faculty adviser for the team.
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