A group of Sea Otters living together can be called a float, a raft or a family. BDE recently got to spend 9 days with the CSUMB Otters soccer team under the direction of Shane Carew. They are working together to become a highly competitive college soccer family.
The Monterey Bay Area is beautiful and CSUMB is only blocks from the beach. The Pacific Ocean is a great place for Otter soccer players to do their regen after leaving their 2 beautiful grass soccer fields (one for training and the other for matches).
Sea Otters eat 25% of their body weight every day. The CSUMB soccer Otters are a young team hungry to become better. They are a team with a hard working staff making the best of all the resources they have in their area.
Sea Otters will float in a “raft” when sleeping by holding on to each other’s paws. These soccer Otters stay together by doing what the team needs in order to become better people and a better team.
Sea Otters are one of the few animals that know how to use a tool. These soccer Otters have some young leaders that are driven to take the program to new heights.
Sea Otters have great endurance, they can dive down to 300 feet and have a lung capacity of 2.5 times greater than similar sized land mammals. The core of the CSUMB soccer Otters are pressing their fitness limits to achieve results this coming fall.
Sea Otters have the thickest fur of any animal. The soccer Otters are building toward being the toughest team in their conference.
I did not know all these facts about either type of Otter but it is pretty cool to have the school mascot swimming a mile or so away from your field. When you get a chance, go out to see the Sea Otters and the soccer Otters of CSUMB. They are both worth watching!
BDE looks forward to the next time we see the Otters of Monterey Bay!
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