Yale Center for Physical Education, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

"Girls, girls! Everyone, don't worry, please remember that this is a secret ballot, all your tables on the sports field this afternoon, including the previous two rounds of testing, including the assembly of the whole team and the team confrontation just now, whether as a competitor or as a temporary teammate, your respective table xiàn, the players around you have the most right to speak, so, girls, please line up, get a sticky note, write the numbers and names of the 4 players you think are the best in your team, and then, call Mia and Audrey! Although I have dictatorial powers, there is no black-box operation in this afternoon's selection, and when the secret ballot is over, we will announce the results of the selection! ”

Jiang Yelin's words finally made the girls of the reserve team settle down, and soon signed the paper and distributed it, and the team doctor Hakson, who was responsible for distributing the training allowance on the sidelines, did not know when, he had already commanded the two substitutes to bring a tactical whiteboard and put it on the edge of the table with a bracket, the 45-year-old senior lecturer of the law school was obviously happy to show one or two in such a joyful selection, after all, after Jiang Yelin became the head of the Yale women's football team, not only the allowances of the players increased significantly, Hackson Sherman's income, as a team doctor, is also rising, and it's normal to be refreshed, isn't it?

The 22 regular members of the Yale women's team plus 66 reserve members who passed the 1200-meter run and 30-meter sprint selection, after 4 group battles, used their own votes to decide who should be selected for the team, on the one hand, this requires athletic talent and football ability as the basis for the evaluation, on the other hand, team spirit and popularity are also quite crucial, and at the same time, every member of the team who participates in the selection needs to have self-knowledge, even if the United States is a self-respecting society, But when you are not as good as others, you have to choose yourself and knock down the team members who are stronger than you, which is very difficult, if not impossible, for this group of alumni who were just strangers before this afternoon.

Of course, Jiang Yelin found that in a highly competitive institution like Yale University, girls may lack athletic talent, but people with stupid brains are rare, in fact, 88 secret ballots, only less than 50 are full of four numbers and names, and there are as many as 33 votes with only one name, which often means that many girls in the reserve team only chose themselves, which is also the best way to stand out, otherwise you fill in four numbers and names, even if one of them chooses yourself, But it also added one vote to the other three, while the others were clearly their own direct competitors!

As the player numbers on the tactical whiteboard were written up, and the horizontal bars under the numbers were added, the results of this secret ballot were clear at a glance, and it was surprising that the numbers 1-22 belonged to the official members of the original Yale women's football team, but obviously, not all former official players took the lead in this secret ballot, and each ballot could write 4 names, Jiang Yelin's original intention was that each team selected the 4 people with the best reputation and skills to be selected for the next round of training camp.

Since each of the 8 teams has 3 official members of the Yale women's football team, if you start from the football skills and athletic ability, the 3 official members who originally belonged to the women's football team should have the opportunity to be promoted, and most of the new reserve players can only fight for the only remaining place, if each of the 8 teams is promoted to 4 people, the number of women's football players who will enter the next round of training will reach 32, which is a moderate number for further selection, however, Obviously, the Yale girls who came by secret ballot and for the high training allowance lacked the initiative and sacrifice to praise others, and in the secret ballot of the 11 members of the first team, Captain No. 10 Mia was the only one who received 11 votes!

The second place is the midfielder No. 18 Lilith Wood, who got 8 votes, the 22-year-old former substitute midfielder Lilith Wood is 168 cm tall, solid and fierce in tackling, and his running ability is quite good, but his physical fitness is slightly lacking, so in the two years that Ronnie van der Ha coached, Lilith Wood was usually replaced when he got off work, and this time in the first team, Mia Suter, the leader of the 3 veteran squadrons, was the main force, Lilith Wood and No. 18 Diana Chapud, the number 18, were both substitutes in midfield.

The voting results of the first team were obviously beyond everyone's expectations, and Jiang Yelin did not expect that although the captain Mia Suter received 11 votes with her unparalleled fame and ball skills, including the vote she voted for herself, but Lilith Wood, who was also a veteran player in second place, only got 8 votes, in other words, if there was no shortage of votes for the 3 veteran players, only five of the remaining 8 reserve players voted for Lilith, which is not counting, the third-ranked veteran Diana only got 4 votes, in the same case, If the three votes of the veteran players are confirmed, only one of the remaining eight new players will vote for Diana.

The next results are obviously varied, among the 8 new reserve team members of the first team, the 23rd Christie Sharpman, who has the highest number of votes, only has 4 votes, and the other 7 team members each got one vote, everyone understands that most of that vote is the vote that the new team members themselves voted for, the first team is over, the girls in front of the tactical whiteboard are talking, the 8 new members of the first team have different faces, obviously, the only one among the 8 people who can be promoted is only No. 23 Xin Yuner Christie, Christie, who is 169 tall, jumped up ecstatically on the spot, and the girls around her didn't even come forward to congratulate, in fact, Christie was originally a member of the Yale tennis team, and her body is good and running, but she is a layman who plays football, and the reason why she shows her in the first team is probably related to her height of 169 and her slender and strong body. "Well, the results of the first team are out, don't be discouraged, on the afternoon of the fourth Wednesday of every month, the Yale women's football team will open a rookie selection, as long as you are willing to work hard, as long as you have enough places to impress me, you have a chance, the first team is promoted to No. 10, No. 18, No. 19 and No. 23, special congratulations to the No. 23 newcomers, please say your name out loud! Let's applaud and cheer them on, okay?! “

Jiang Yelin clapped his hands to boost morale, the girls of the other teams applauded warmly, only the first team that had already produced the results applauded little, and the captain Mia, who was in charge of the vote in front of the tactical board, did not applaud at all, in fact, Christie can stand out only because of her height and physical fitness, and there is not much difference in terms of ball skills compared to the other tall and short 7 losers, however, the height of 169 is considered tall among female football players, if it can be cultivated, it is not impossible to be a substitute defender. "Don't be frustrated with the unsuccessful reserve players of the first team, every month the team will give newcomers a chance to participate in the selection, of course, it will not be as hard and complicated as this afternoon, maybe the next time you come to apply for the football team, the assessment items are more than skipping rope or tug-of-war? The girls cheered up, and went to the team doctor Huxon to receive a training allowance of $150 each, and you can have a meal and drink with your classmates and friends tonight, by the way, everyone should be at least 21 years old, right, if you are not old enough, let alone Coach Django instigated you to drink! “

Jiang Yelin's words finally took effect, and the seven Yale girls who were unsuccessful in the first detachment were summoned by the training allowance of $150, and they packed up their depressed mood, and went to the table of the team doctor Hackson in turn to receive the green dollar bills, Jiang Yelin prepared for this afternoon's selection meeting all the brand-new dollar bills withdrawn from the bank, one 100 plus two $20 bills, and one $10! Many girls jumped up happily when they received the training allowance, waving the banknotes in their hands and throwing kisses at Jiang Yelin!

Next is the second team's vote, among the 3 veteran players, one person was actually defeated, but a substitute defender, No. 9 striker Shanon Box and No. 7 midfielder Lauren Helledy both had 8 votes, but the substitute guard No. 15 only got 2 votes, obviously even if it was a teammate of No. 15, as No. 9 and No. 7, these two girls either looked at No. 15 badly, or were a little discriminatory, No. 15 is a shriveled and thin colored girl, maybe freezing three feet is not a day's cold, I don't know how Ronnie van der Hay picked this product in the first place.

In the second team, because there was a No. 15 veteran team member who was defeated, the twin sisters No. 32 and No. 34 got the opportunity to advance with a margin of 3 votes, in fact, because it was a pair of sisters, each voted for their sisters that was 2 votes, which means that the other girls in the team voted for the two of them, looking at the posture of No. 8 Shanon reaching out to congratulate the sisters, maybe it was Shanon Box's new little sister for himself!

The second group of twin sisters can stand out and get Shannon's recognition, because the height of the two has reached an astonishing 175 cm among female athletes, and it is not an exaggeration to describe this pair of alternates for the Yale volleyball team as standing out from the crowd, the height of sister Carrie Memphis and sister Carlis Memphis can only be regarded as short in the volleyball team, but when it comes to the football team, if the physical fitness can keep up with the growth and strength, Maybe one left and one right can give full play to their strengths, and it is not known.

In addition to the 15th, the original veteran players of the Yale women's football team also lost the 13th, 19th and 21st four players, so that the fresh blood of the supplement reached 14, the 14 Yale girls who were selected were happy and cheered, but the loss of the unsuccessful girls was not as strict as imagined, after all, the four players did belong to the backward or bottom players in the team, or the love for football was not enough, Either there is a real lack of talent, in fact, as long as the veteran players can recognize each other, there will always be 3 votes anyway, but most of these unsuccessful veteran players only get two votes, which means that the door of Yale women's football will be closed to them in the short term!

The long and arduous initial selection finally came to an end in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the number of Yale women's football players expanded to 32, and if the team doctor Huxon was to be the goalkeeper temporarily, it would be three 11-man teams!