Spokane Zephyr have chance at redemption in regular season finale on Saturday
May 15—Second-year midfielder Emma Jaskaniec knows what's at stake when the Spokane Zephyr host Brooklyn FC in their regular -season finale at ONE Spokane Stadium Saturday at 1 p. m. Jaskaniec was on the 2024-25 Spokane squad, which fell just one point shy of making the playoffs after they finished the USL Super League's inaugural season tied with Fort Lauderdale in points.
With one win, two losses and three draws against them, Spokane lost the head-to-head tiebreaker for the last postseason bid. This weekend the Zephyr find themselves in a similar position with a chance at redemption. Jaskaniec credits the team's success this year to the way head coach Nicole Lukic has them "bought in.
" Despite taking the reins eight games into the season, after Spokane (9-9-9, 36 points) had gone 2-2-4, Jaskaniec said Lukic has given her team "so much confidence. " Part of that, Jaskaniec said, is because she values them as people and "not just who we are as players. " "Knowing that your coach has your back no matter what, just makes you want to go out there and do everything you can to get three points," she said.
Since Lukic's arrival, the fifth-place Zephyr have gone 7-7-5. "Coming in ... having to pick off where they left off, not knowing any of the girls — these aren't the girls that you recruited — is a really hard job.
And I think she's just taken that in stride," Jaskaniec said. "The more time we've spent with her, the more wins we've gotten, and the more everybody's buying in. We're growing because she's ...
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