This is the final guest post from the research competition and was submitted by Eric Parziale, an undergraduate student and Dr. Philip Yates, a faculty member, both from the Department of Mathematics at the St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.   Every soccer player has to answer the question, “When I get the ball, what do I do with it?”  There are lots of options.  Depending on the situation in which a player finds himself or herself, they may pass the ball to a teammate, kick the ball out of bounds, clear the ball upfield, dribble, hit the ball ... [More]