{"id":1314125,"date":"2019-08-29T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/cardinals-soccer-cautiously-optimistic-about-2019-season\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T04:28:00","slug":"cardinals-soccer-cautiously-optimistic-about-2019-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/cardinals-soccer-cautiously-optimistic-about-2019-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals soccer \u2018cautiously optimistic\u2019 about 2019 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-infobox alignleft p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"module module-promo card shadow-sm\" readability=\"11.5\">\n<div class=\"card-body\" readability=\"18\">\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox BoldIntro\">Head Coach: Rick Van Fleet, fourth year<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox BoldIntro\">Last Year: 4-12 overall, 1-7 3A Western Slope League<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox BoldIntro\">Key Returners: Tyler Boger, Jr.; Isaac Tigert, Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Factbox BoldIntro\">Athletes to Watch: Nikolai Stammer, Jr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Coach Rick Van Fleet is cautiously optimistic about his team as the 2019 soccer season opener nears at Grand Valley High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With several new faces out this year and a very young team, the Cardinals could find themselves in a rebuilding mode more often than not against the tough competition that presents itself each week in the 3A Western Slope League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is a very young team, but I\u2019m always optimistic and hoping for the best,\u201d Van Fleet said. \u201cWe may face an upward battle at times, especially with how tough this league is each year. These guys could surprise some people, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Van Fleet figures that Roaring Fork, Coal Ridge, and Delta should be the front runners in this year\u2019s chase for the WSL Crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis year is almost like trying to build a new program, as young as we are,\u201d Van Fleet said. \u201cBut the kids are excited, working hard, and the future is bright for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Cardinals should be competitive in a tough 3A Western Slope League. The Cardinals won just one game in league play last year, but the experience is there this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:sports@postindependent.com\">sports@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/sports\/cardinals-soccer-cautiously-optimistic-about-2019-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Coach: Rick Van Fleet, fourth year Last Year: 4-12 overall, 1-7 3A Western Slope League Key Returners: Tyler Boger, Jr.; Isaac Tigert, Jr. Athletes to Watch: Nikolai Stammer, Jr. Coach Rick Van Fleet is cautiously optimistic about his team as the 2019 soccer season opener nears at Grand Valley High School. With several new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1314125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 18:14:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}