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The success of our team is driven by healthy competition among teammates. We compete with each other in practice, pushing each other to be the best in our sport. This creates a supportive environment where we all work hard and cheer each other on. Additionally, great leadership and support from those who have achieved success in the past have helped us come close to a national championship. Despite falling short, the experience has been motivating, and we are ready to face the challenge of defending our position as a top team.

Kelly Gorbatenko | Wisconsin Ice Hockey

So if you really want it , you have to match your actions with that passion . Yeah , I think something that my teams and I do to get the results and the success our team has is we compete with each other . Yes , we're teammates , but in practice , we're battling like we're playing against each other because you practice how you play and everybody wants to be the best in their sport .

Kelly Gorbatenko | Wisconsin Ice Hockey

Yeah , I think something that my teams and I do to get the results and the success our team has is we compete with each other . Yes , we're teammates , but in practice , we're battling like we're playing against each other because you practice how you play and everybody wants to be the best in their sport . So when we're competing , we all , it's a mutual um mutual game .

Kelly Gorbatenko | Wisconsin Ice Hockey

Everybody's rooting a mod . So we all just want the best for each other and we're willing to push each other in that way so that we have the best team success possible after my first season of Karl Chak had some time to reflect and , and then some things that I wish I knew back then was that nothing is going to be handed to you ? Uh , you have to surround yourself with people that are better than you senior year .

Kelly Gorbatenko | Wisconsin Ice Hockey

So it was definitely a challenge . And then playing in the playoffs this year , we had great leadership , uh , people that knew what we needed to do to win and they really helped lead us in the right direction and unfortunately fell one goal short of a national championship . But we have that all have that experience that we can pass on to the next group .

Kelly Gorbatenko | Wisconsin Ice Hockey

Uh , you have to surround yourself with people that are better than you senior year . You know , I was at the top of my team and I didn't really have many people pushing me . So I didn't think I had as much growth as I possibly could have , but I had the most growth and I got it so much better when I was around people that were better than I was .