“When your season ends like it does last year against Auburn and it’s over, there’s such a bitter taste in your mouth, you’re stuck with that. You’re stuck with that all year,” Bramble said. “You can play the spring games and you can win spring games and that still doesn’t make that feeling go away. You can win an exhibition game against Mississippi State last weekend, and while that feels good, it doesn’t count. This weekend signifies that this is a chance to play for ?real again.”
Kicking off the fall season, Alabama will host Kennesaw State and Memphis this weekend.
“Coming off a win last Friday, I think that it’s really encouraging, and I think that this weekend we’re all really excited to finally get started,” senior midfielder Theresa Diederich said. “We’ve been working really hard, and we’re just ready to see what we can do.”