Her teammates and coaches all say Lindsay Bartlett is a leader who motivates her teammates to be better all-around people.According to head soccer coach Cindy Piper, Bartlett, a senior goalkeeper, is a leader all her teammates look up to.
“Overall, she’s just a great team leader; she’s someone the kids look up to all the time,” Piper said. “She’s always in a good mood, always trying to push people past their limits.”
By playing the position of goalie, Bartlett thinks there are many positives because her team is always behind her supporting her.
“There are only positives to being a soccer player-no negatives,” Bartlett said.
Senior defender Lynn Simmons sees her teammate as a hard-working individual who plays through pain.
“She’s played through all kinds of injuries,” Simmons said. “You can’t even tell that she’s injured half the time.”
Piper said that Bartlett is a valuable part of her team who will be key in critical situations.
“She’s going to be someone we’re going to have to rely on game after game,” Piper said. “There’s no secret she’s going to have to make that
game-winning save here and there.”
Bartlett has made many saves in her collegiate career. During her freshman year, she played in eight of the 14 total games, giving up 43 goals but also saving 110.
During her sophomore year she played in all 17 games and recorded 95 saves.
Again, she played in all 20 games as a junior logging 1827 minutes in goal with 124 saves.
“She has gotten better every year,” Simmons, who is entering her third year playing soccer with Bartlett, said.
Former head coach Jim Zakel recruited Bartlett out of West Vancouver Secondary in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bartlett said, “Soccer
has always been a passion of mine since I’ve been a little kid.”
Despite the long distance from Louisiana to Canada, the senior biology major actually considers Thibodaux her home.
“I love it down here,” Bartlett said. “Everyone is so friendly and so nice. I call here home, which makes my parents mad.”
Although she is very superstitious, Bartlett’s pre-game ritual is very simple: eating a banana before each game.
When she is not playing soccer, Bartlett helps out in the math department as a student worker.
Bartlett’s teammates say she is always willing to help them out in any way.
“She’s always positive and always happy, and she helps all the other freshmen and me, encouraging them,” Jessica Schwartz, a freshman midfielder, said. “She helps them (the freshmen) off the field if they have problems with anything.”
After finishing up her career as a member of the Lady Colonels soccer team, Bartlett hopes to return to Canada where she will go to medical school in Alberta, Canada. Eventually she hopes to open her own practice.
