Success Continues For Dalton High Soccer Team
Dalton, GA-(WDEF-TV) It seems like the Dalton high school soccer team is always playing for a state title under head coach Matt Cheaves, and this year appears to be no different. Brian Armstrong delves into the Catamounts secret for success.
Said head coach Matt Cheaves: “Stay positive and try to follow our plan.:
Matt Cheese has been Dalton High School soccer head coach for nearly 30 years, and it seems he always has a title contender. Dalton High School has six state titles, five in the last decade, and has been named the number one team in the nation twice. Which coach handles those expectations by playing it just one game at a time,
Said Cheaves: We hold ourselves to a high standard, and then we just go game by game to high standard.
Said leading goal scorer Ezekiel Ortiz: So, you know, we gotta, you know, give everything we got, play with our heart, play with, youknow, this was it’s our whole life. All we do is play soccer .So, you know, just playing our best and, youknow, you know, if it happens, it happens.
Cheaves adds the team still needs to work on things, despite winning its last playoff game for Nil.I think it gave us something to work on.
Said
Cheaves: We did create a lot of good chances to score,so I felt good that we got four goals.I thought we should have had more. But still, we come away from this with a win and a good bit of stuff to work on for the next game.
One thing the team doesn’t need to work on is team chemistry.That’s something that is already in full swing.
Said Cheaves: Just the nicest bunch of guys I’ve ever coached,so they’re really fun to work with every day. When you work with teenage guys,that’s not always the case.But this group of guys, they’re really a pleasure to coach.
Said Ortiz: We all want the same thing, and that’s just to win.And so just playing together and just playing for each other, just everything.
And when you think of Dalton high school soccer, you can’t forget about the fans.
Said Cheaves: We call them the Harmon Field Hooligans.The fans here, there’s nowhere like it, and a lot of people try to replicate it, but it’s not quite the same.
