Westcliff women’s soccer head coach Jack Gidney uses the metaphor of a tree when describing his team and the role his 2022 seniors played in planting that tree. It was a group that collectively introduced women’s soccer as Westcliff’s most successful program a year before Covid hit. It was a group that experienced two coaching changes in three years, and was absolutely snake-bitten a year ago, losing the entire season, in essence, to various injuries and spells of extreme bad luck. It was also the group that went to the mattresses to fight for Gidney, an assistant last year who…