This past Saturday, as one of our spring competition days, we were fortunate enough to travel to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.  When we got there our team split into small groups and all paired up with players from the Navy team, who showed us around the yard.  We had gorgeous weather, and loved seeing the river come up to the edge of campus.  It was really neat to get a behind-the-scenes tour of a campus so different from ours.  I don't think many of us would last with some of the things they have to do (freshmen aren't even allowed to listen to music!).  We got to eat lunch in the mess hall, where on weekdays all the midshipmen (a little over 4000 total) eat every meal together.  Again, it was really cool to get to experience something so different from what we're used to.  After lunch we hit the gym for a couple hours, intermixing with the Navy team to play some competitive drills.  It was a little distracting having an entire wall of the field house be windows, with boats docked in the river twenty yards away!  All in all it was an awesome day, meeting and playing with new people, and getting to see a very impressive academy!


Maggie Harding