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Ms. Heather Fuller
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Home Phone: -- Former Soccer: Fuller Playing Professional Soccer Courtesy: RaginCajuns.com June 29, 2011 Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns soccer program is currently being represented in the professional ranks of women’s soccer. Heather Fuller, who suited up for the Ragin’ Cajuns in 2007 and 2008, is a member of the Boston Aztecs Breakers Reserves of the Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL), a national amateur league at the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.. The squad serves as a reserve team for the Women’s Professional Soccer League’s (WPS) Boston Breakers. Boston Aztec players also train with the Boston Breakers staff. The Boston Aztec roster is composed entirely of post-college players, like Fuller. The Aztecs players have the opportunity to advance to the Breakers squad In fact, two players were signed to the Breakers roster in 2009. RaginCajuns.com recently conducted an interview with Fuller and asked her to reflect on her collegiate experience and current profressional experience. The entire Q&A session is listed below. Q: Describe the experience of playing at the professional level? HF: “Playing at the professional level is an awesome experience. It’s a much quicker pace and everyone is just as good as or better than you. It’s a little intimidating coming in for the first time, but I am always up for a good challenge.” Q: How did college prepare you for what you’re doing now? HF: “My college years were the stepping stones for where I am today. Starting off at a junior college, every year my competition got harder and harder…from my two years at JUCO, two years at a UL and then the level I am at now. I like to say I eased my way into it! But I could have never made it with out college ball and I’m very happy that I finished all four years of college before taking it to the next level. I have great college soccer memories and I’m very lucky for that.” Q: What advice would you give to former teammates of yours still playing in college? HF: “ENJOY EVERY MINUTE! Just being a college athlete in general is the greatest experience in the world… playing soccer, the memories, and the friends you make along the way is one of the best feelings in the world. Take it all in and enjoy while you can because it comes and goes faster than you think. Playing college soccer is an accomplishment that only you can claim and no one can take that away from you. If you have aspirations of going to the next level, follow your dreams and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I am very lucky to be where I am and have told myself all along I was going to do this and look at me now…who would of thought? Stay true to yourself and always follow your heart. Anyone can do it and always believe you can!” Q: What is the thing you like most about living and playing in Boston? HF: “Things I like most about living in Boston is definitely playing soccer, of course. Other than that I am a southern girl inside and out! It was freezing cold all the way up until June! I don’t like cold weather and it rains about every other day. But the food is great! The lobster and clam chowder is everything they said it would be… THE BOMB! And it was pretty cool because I got to experience the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup. That was a lot of fun since we don’t experience a whole lot of hockey back in Texas. Overall this has been an amazing experience!” Q: How has your game changed since college? HF: “I always knew that playing professional soccer was my dream and I would do it if it fell in my lap, but I never had that ‘I’m going after it’ mentality. Now that I am at the level, I have that mentality. Everything I do now I take very seriously and push myself to be better everyday. I worked hard in college, but now I see not hard enough. If I had the work rate then, I could have had a more successful college career. If I could change anything it would be that, but things do happen for a reason. I’m here now, and learning and fixing former mistakes.” Q: What is your favorite memory from your playing days at UL? HF: “I don’t really have favorite memories as a player, but memories of some of the funny moments with the team off the field. I do remember that Coach Scot (Wieland) made us practice one day to Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ song on REPEAT the whole practice. I will never listen to that song again! I could speak for days about moments with UL soccer. It was the greatest two years of my life and made some life long best friends along the way. I wouldn’t trade one minute of it!” Q: What is your favorite moment so far playing for the Aztecs? HF: “My favorite moment so far playing with the Aztecs was our first practice with the Breakers. I felt like a little kid in a candy store. We got to wear their practice uniforms, go in their locker room, and I got to meet Christine Lilly. OMG she was at the practice!!! I was star struck, but I think I played it off pretty well. So I think I was okay. I couldn’t believe it was real life…MY REAL LIFE!” Q: What is it like playing with pros and who has been the toughest player that you have played or trained against? HF: “Playing with the pros is very intimidating but I try to go in everyday with an open mind, that I’m here for a reason, and that I can play with these girls! Leslie Osborne is probably one of the nicest girls and biggest girly girls you’ll ever meet that plays soccer, but don’t let it fool you. That woman is a BEAST on the playing field. Alex Scott, Kelly Smith…all the girls are great and definite work horses. It is definitely amazing to say I am a part of all this.” Q: What do you do when you’re not playing or training? HF: “We train twice a day. We go two times a week in the mornings to this place called Catz for weight training and speed and agility type things. Then we go to Harvard stadium twice a week as well in the mornings to train with the Breakers’ coaches (sometimes with the team) and then every night we have training with the Aztecs. We stay pretty busy. On our down time we go to the beach or the lake. The beach is only 30 minutes away so it’s very nice. I train some of the little girls on the younger teams within our club, so I spend some of my time with them as well. The girls and I hang out and just find new things around town to go explore. It’s a great city!” — Ragin’ Cajuns — Updated July 15, 2011
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