Playing for ‘Moe,’ Rams aim for playoff spot

By DAN PALM

For the MV Independent

The Ringgold girls soccer team missed making the playoffs last season by one game. Things didn’t get better in the offseason as the head coach resigned and tragedy hit. 

First-year head coach Matt Wagner resigned after a 5-10-1, 5-6-1 season. Then in June, Kaitlyn “Moe” Rosensteel was killed with another teen by a lightning strike at Mammoth Park in Westmoreland County.

Rosensteel was a 2018 Rams’ captain and was set to continue her academic and athletic career at West Virginia Wesleyan College on a soccer scholarship.

Rams alumnus Olivia Wilkerson was hired as head coach in February to steady the ship and get the team back to the playoffs while overcoming some early adversity.

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