Sometimes your fate is out of your control.
Wetumpka’s girls soccer team learned that the hard way last season after it lost the area title to rival Stanhope Elmore on a coin flip. This year, the goal is to ensure the team is nowhere near that situation ever again, and the Indians believe they have the personnel to do that.
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