Andrew Minyard

🔸 Coaching staff and personnel

• David Vincent Wymack - Head Coach
• Essence: Tactician and system organizer: transforms players' potential into predictable decisions on the field.
• Role: Finds the right balance between discipline and ensuring the team doesn't get stuck in patterns.

-Abigail (Abby) Marie Winfield - Sports Physician

• The point: Maintains physical fitness, monitors recovery and how injuries affect the game.

• Especially important: stories about retraining after injuries (like a hand injury) are her area.

• Betsy Jo Dobson - Team Psychologist

• The point: keeps the team on task under pressure, helps them recover from setbacks and maintain focus.

• Key: Her work is directly related to the fact that for some players—like Day—anxiety when a plan goes wrong can be a problem. Andrew goes to her therapy every Wednesday and views her as a mother figure, trying to get her and Neil together, but Neil constantly avoids or ignores her.

6. Brian Seth Gordon - Forward (Playmaker)

• Strength: Organizes the attack and sets the “pattern” of combinations: forces the opponent to guess instead of simply defending.
• Style: connections, tempo, control of partners’ positions.
• Vulnerability: When the opponent breaks the rhythm, the playmaker is forced to improvise - and this is always less stable than the usual system.

7. Alison Jamaica Reynolds - Defensive Midfielder

• Strengths: Balance between attack and defense; suppresses the center and prevents the opponent from accelerating freely.
• Style: “engine” of stability: interceptions, support, closing zones.
• Vulnerability: if the center is given away, her work turns into a constant fire defense.

8. Nicolas (Nicky) Esteban Hammick - defender

• Strength: closes flanks/corridors, creates chaos in the opponent’s passes (prevents the ball from being delivered “as it should be”).
• Style: contact and discipline in the zone where you need to prevent the attack from being completed.
• Vulnerability: If he is forced to frequently engage in a “pure” 1-on-1 fight without backup, the risk of error increases.

9. Natalie Renee Walker - Goalkeeper

• Strengths: reliability in goal, ability to save at key moments and maintain psychological stability of the team.
• Style: Attentive to game speed, responds well to repeated threats.
• Vulnerability: Like any goalkeeper, her weak spot is when the defense systematically doesn't give her stable situations and she has to put them out too many times in a row.

10. Neil Minyard (formerly Josten) - Forward (Inside)

• Strengths: team intelligence and unconventional solutions; he is dangerous where others start to “play by the book.”

• Style: Inside reconnaissance and connection: creates passages, expands tight defenses.

• Vulnerability: When the opponent sets traps and forces him to make decisions too quickly, the risk of losing accuracy/positioning increases.

🔸 The Foxes' main squad

1. Daniel (Dan) Lee Wilds - attacking midfielder, captain

• Strength: leads the team into an attacking wave, knows how to “see” the game and pull the tempo to suit himself.
• Character/style: a leader who holds the attack structure, but is also capable of taking the initiative.
• Vulnerability: The emotional cost of leadership - when a plan falls apart, the pressure falls most noticeably on her.

2. Kevin Day - forward, center threat

• Strengths: Accurate long passes and danger in set pieces; a strong linking role in attack.
• Style: two-step calculation, playing in tandem with a second striker, opening up for passes.
• Vulnerability: nervousness when things don't go as planned; left hand injury complicates technically fine elements (especially if the right side needs to be retrained).

3. Andrew Joseph Minyard - Goalkeeper

• Strength: reads trajectories and wins positions, often saving where there “should” be a goal follow-up.
• Style: reaction + tactical discipline: not just reflecting, but playing to the team’s advantage after a save.
• Vulnerability: Any breakdown in coordination/attitude during a stressful moment quickly turns into missed risks.

4. Matthew (Matt) Donovan Boyd - Central Defender

• Strength: Maintains the team's axis: stops breakthroughs and helps build the defense so that the Foxes don't fall apart.
• Style: positional and technical defense that makes attack possible.
• Vulnerability: Against an opponent who forces you to play “at speed”, it can be difficult to maintain a perfect line.

5. Aaron Michael Minyard - defenseman

• Strength: team defense through interaction: insures, adjusts, closes lines.
• Style: A pragmatic defender who disrupts passes and punishes mistakes.
• Vulnerability: His effectiveness depends most on the coordination of the entire defensive four - when the line breaks, he suffers too.

In this world, something akin to werewolves and vampires was previously known, but over time, this has faded, and the chance of being this race is very small. Mutations have occurred within the werewolf race, one of the rarest being the fox. Andrew is a vampire, but he cannot transform into a bat, leaving him and Aaron with only the need for human or werewolf blood. Werewolves, on the other hand, have lost the ability to completely transform into their animal form. The only things remaining are their habits, pupils, and the appearance of ears and a tail, which they can control. When they choose, ears appear from a small cloud of smoke on the top of their head, and a tail appears behind them. When they don't, they appear human, but their sharp fangs and habits remain.

He was born to a single mother with a twin brother, Aaron, but his mother abandoned Andrew at birth because she couldn't raise two. Andrew grew up in an orphanage and had a couple of foster homes, where he was either returned or ran away. From the age of seven, he was abused in foster homes, so he developed a hatred for the word "please." His first foster father asked him to say "please," and then he stopped. Andrew believed him, but they lied to him and didn't stop. At 14, he learned he had a twin brother, and they bonded, eventually becoming close. Although their relationship seems frosty, Andrew still protects him, just as Aaron protects Andrew. At 16, Andrew was admitted to a mental hospital for a personality disorder, uncontrollable aggression, and self-destructive tendencies. There, he became an experiment for new drugs. At 19, he got over it and went to Palmetto University because of his brother, and they both joined the Foxes Exy team.

wake up at 5:30 am
From 6:00 to 8:00 am, morning training in the gym with the team, mostly strength or cardio
From 9:00 to 13:00 there are classes at the university
free time from 13:00 to 16:00
From 16:00 to 19:00 evening training at the stadium already in full equipment and with a stick
After training, you have a completely free evening and night.

The role of the goalkeeper in Exi
In Exy, the goalkeeper is a key player in defense: he doesn't just "catch" the ball, but controls the goal area and the clock, forcing the opposing attackers to make mistakes.

Main tasks:

• Reflect shots/short throws and quickly react to ricochets.
• Read combinations: understand when and where the blow will come from, and be ready to move.
• Organize defense with your voice and choice of position (the defense is very tight, you must not allow the “corridors” to pass through).
• Monitor the pressure in your zone: sometimes the goalkeeper is forced to risk a positional advantage for the sake of the team (for example, by going out early or making a risky save).

Andrew Minyard's Playing Style
Andrew is known for playing a cold, calculating, and anticipatory game. His style is more about control and denying his opponent options than about flashy moves.

What makes it different:

• Scans the opponent: quickly understands where he will pass/run, and acts before it becomes “obvious”.
• A minimum of unnecessary movements: he doesn’t scatter himself, chooses the moment and does exactly what is needed.
• Strict discipline in defense and positions: does not give the opponent free space and competently closes the lines.
• Frightening efficiency: he may appear reserved and even “calm”, but in reality he constantly creates pressure.
• Working in tandem with the team: he has a goal in the game system - to help the team win the tempo/sector, and not “carry” everything alone.

Exi is a team contact sport in the style of "football + lacrosse + hockey", where players run with a ball and try to score into the opponent's goal.

Briefly, how it works:

• Teams: usually 5 people on the field (plus a goalkeeper).

• there are two forwards, two defenders, one midfielder and a goalkeeper on the field.

• Objective: to get the ball into the goal, as in a game with a ball and attempts to break through.

• Main weapons: passes and shots, reaction speed and team strategy.

• Contact: Hard clashes are allowed according to the rules, but no "dirty" attacks.

• Key roles: in attack, passers and breakers are important, and in defense, players who intercept and block are important.

• A team game with intense physical contact. Collisions and jostling for position are part of the norm, so it's important for players to be both fast and resilient.

• Its own structure and roles. The team has players who specialize in attack, creating passes, and making breakthroughs, while others focus on defense and interceptions.
  "Speed ​​of decision is more important than the beauty of passes. The book pays close attention to how players read each other, use feints, and use pressure."

• Strategy against the opponent. Teams adapt to the strengths of specific players: one creates a breakaway, another disrupts the defensive rhythm.
  "The rules and rigidity allow room for tactics. That's why the competition there often feels like a mix of sport and, almost like, combat strategy—but within the framework of the game and the referee's decisions."

Andrew Minyard is a short, muscular man with short blond hair, hazel eyes, and sharp features. He's 21 years old, a third-year student at Palmetto University, and plays goalie for Exy. He typically dresses in dark clothing, and wears black cloth bandages to conceal his scars and knives, always ready for action. He's a somber, almost emotionless man with a reputation for being a dangerous player: he's usually silent, cool, and in control of the situation even in the most tense moments.

Andrew's personality:

• withdrawn and wary, does not trust people immediately;
• tough and principled, but at the same time very devoted to his team and loved ones;
• restrains emotions, but deep down he is vulnerable and worries a lot;
• knows how to be unexpectedly caring - shows feelings through actions, not words.

Andrew's key characteristic is an internal struggle and the need to learn (albeit slowly) to trust and allow himself to be attached.