SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2013
THE DALLAS POST
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SELENSKI
Continued from Page 1
“My goal at the Olympics
came at a pretty rough time for
our whole team,” she said. “It
was our last game and, obvious-
ly, the outcome was not what
we wanted at all.
“A lot of it was that we were
®- in the beginning. It was
good for me to end the Olym-
pics on a good note.”
The way the Olympics as a
whole turned out is fresh in the
minds of Selenski and the rest of
Team USA.
“That drives us every day,
every practice,” Selenski said,
“especially for those of us who
competed at the Olympics and
the outcome was not anywhere
near what we wanted it to be.
“That fuels our fire. We know
we're better than what we did at
the Olympics.”
That disappointment, com-
bined with a new head coach,
could have added uncertainty to
those trying to maintain spots
on the national team.
The latest roster was selected,
as it is each season, following
the Women’s National Champi-
onships.
A dozen players with Olym-
pic experience are part of the
O-player roster.
“Especially with a new coach,
you don’t know what he wants;
you don’t know what he’s look-
ing for,” Selenski said. “There’s
a bunch of us who have the title
of Olympian, but you still have
to show what you're capable of
and how skillful you are on the
field.
“There are people always
fighting to take your spot. You
really have to be on top of your
game at all times.”
The national tournament is
the yearly highlight of a process
in which Selenski and others
now on the Women’s National
Squad alternately compete
against and then alongside each
other.
Not long after being named to
the team, they were back to that
battle again.
During training, they were
Last summer ended with Selenski
scoring a goal in the Olympics. She had
the only score for the United States in a
2-1 loss to Belgium in the final game, which igh School Player of the Year.
determined 11th and 12th place in the
12-team field.
trying to convince Craig Parn-
ham that they were worthy of
being among the 18 players se-
lected to compete at the World
League Semifinal.
Selenski again made the cut.
She was with the team that was
scheduled to leave for London
yesterday to get ready for Satur-
day’s opener against Argentina,
the silver medalist at the Lon-
don Olympics.
For Selenski to have a chance
to be on a US. roster in the
World Cup, she will first have to
assist the team in the process of
qualifying.
The World League Semifinal
is the first step in qualifying
for the World Cup. The United
States finished sixth in the 2006
World Cup, but missed qualify-
ing in 2010 when it fell a game
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short. China and Italy are also
in Pool A with the United States
and Argentina.
The quarterfinals in the eight-
team event begin June 27 with
the top four teams advancing to
the World League Final.
“We will aim to finish as high
as possible, with the immediate
challenge of qualifying for the
World Cup,” Parnham said in a
press release. “ ... The crucial
game will be the quarterfinal
which will determine whether a
team progresses through to the
top four places.”
When the World Cup Semi-
final is over, Selenski will be
back to National Squad train-
ing where she will be joined by
Wyoming Seminary graduates
Kelsey Kolojejchick and Kat
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“It’s good to have players who
are familiar to me also playing
on the national level,” said Sel-
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