ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. − Flagler College women’s soccer coach Teddy Meyer believes he has the team chemistry. Now all he needs is repetition on the playing field.

“We've got a good base. It's just a matter of the players getting used to one another,” Meyer said.

Meyer is entering his fifth season with Flagler and after posting a 6-11-1 record a year ago, he's hoping to rebound in the team's first season in the Peach Belt Conference.

Even if conference officials don't think much of his team.

Recently, the Peach Belt Conference released its preseason coaches' poll predicting an eighth-place finish for the Saints.

“We've been picked eighth cause they don't know us. Part of it is a lack of respect from our record last year,” Meyer said.

“We're going to do well,” Meyer said. “The Peach Belt is going to see that Flagler's going to be a program in the future that's going to be in the top-three and battling for regionals every single year.”

Junior midfielder Hannah Harvell (Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Academic Magnet HS) has liked her team's effort so far this year.

“Preseason for the team has been harder. It's good though,” Harvell said.

The practice and competitiveness with one another is helping the team in Harvell's eyes.

“We've pushed a lot harder in two-a-days; getting up earlier and staying out later. I think it's going to be a great season,” Harvell said.

Senior forward Tiffany Urquhart (Ormond Beach, Fla. / Seabreeze HS), who led the Saints with seven goals last year, is looking forward to the competition within the Peach Belt.

“We play a lot of teams; Armstrong Atlantic, Rollins, Embry-Riddle. We just go into every game and put everything on the line,” Urquhart said.

Urquhart, along with coach Meyer, is really excited about the new freshman on Flagler's team.

“We have a good incoming freshman class. We just got to work together,” Urquhart said.

The addition of 11 new freshman, a youth movement one might say, was to bring in quality players and people.

“We made a lot of decisions up top and brought in better players. We got rid of some players that weren't really helping us in terms of team chemistry issues,” Meyer said.

The seniors on Flagler's roster have gone through a lot. The transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II has Meyer hoping he sends his senior class out with a bang.

“We have very good seniors that are itching for the postseason. They haven't had the opportunity because of the transition from NAIA to DII,” Meyer said.

Meyer's main goal: “To send them out with a conference championship.”