LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Senior Nights in high school sports are special.\u00a0The Land O\u2019 Lakes boys soccer team honored 16 of them earlier this month at\u00a0John Benedetto Stadium, nicknamed\u00a0\u201cThe Swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Eamon Carman is a star forward\/midfielder for the Land O’Lakes High School boys soccer team
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Eamon leads the team and is ranked in the top 10 statewide in goals scored
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The Gators honored 16 seniors during their Senior Night game earlier this month
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Shortly into the game, Eamon scored, giving him a memory he will never forget on his special night<\/p>\n
With some eyes far from dry,\u00a0forward\/midfielder\u00a0Eamon Carman was adamant that there would be no tears from him out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s emotional, I mean I\u2019m excited about it, last home game, I\u2019m excited to just play. I\u2019m ready to play and hopefully score goals and have some fun,\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n
But once he lined up with his family on the track, the tough skin on the\u00a0Gators\u00a0star softened a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I feel a little emotional, but I\u2019m still excited to play the game,\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n
His mom, Anne Gallacher, was honest when asked if she would tear up.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh yeah, I will,\u201d Gallacher said.<\/p>\n
This moment means a lot to him because of how much\u00a0the\u00a0game of soccer\u00a0means to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started when I was 7 years old. It was the first\u00a0sports\u00a0I played when my cousin played it and got me into\u00a0it, and I just wanted to play it and loved it\u00a0ever since,\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n
The Land O\u2019 Lakes boys soccer team loves him as well, leading the team in goals scored\u00a0with 26 entering that game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to score, I want to win\u00a0games, so I come out strong and put everything I have into the game and try to put the ball in the back of the net,\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know how kids are just born with a skill? He was born to put the ball in the back of the net. He just has a nose for the goal, his touch, his speed, his awareness and how he sees the game,\u201d Land O\u2019 Lakes boys soccer head coach Billy Jeremias said.<\/p>\n
The Fighting Gators\u00a0lost a heartbreaker in the district finals last year, which put a chip on their shoulders.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that loss it just hurt, so I was out training every day going to the fields over the summer just like wanting to improve myself and score goals,\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s\u00a0done plenty of that this season, ranking top 10 in the state of Florida and third in Class 6A with 27 goals at the point of this story being published.\u00a0Carman said he was happy to be up there on that list, but it\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0good enough for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah\u00a0sometimes I look at that but then\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0like \u2018I want No.\u00a01,\u00a0I want to be the best player in the state best player in the nation\u2019 so I want to get more goals,\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n
So\u00a0what did\u00a0he\u00a0do\u00a020 minutes\u00a0into the game? He did what he\u00a0does\u00a0best, scoring a goal to lead his team to a 4-0 win.<\/p>\n
Hard to dream of a better senior night, playing the game that he loves.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0play anything else, this is the sport that I\u00a0love\u00a0and\u00a0I\u2019ll\u00a0play it until I\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0anymore,\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n
He will keep on playing into the playoffs as the Fighting Gators look to capture a state title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Senior Nights in high school sports are special.\u00a0The Land O\u2019 Lakes boys soccer team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[175358,1014,175359,49,48,117179,4309,175360,44,128452,561,82,865,13272,1016],"class_list":["post-417560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-app-high-school-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-florida-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-michael-epps","tag-news","tag-pasco-county","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}