Just one year after making history as only the second expansion team to ever reach the NWSL playoffs in their inaugural season, Bay FC is back in the mix during their favorite part of the year. They're on the hunt to prove their 2024 run wasn't a fluke, and now that the second half of the season is officially underway after a summer break for international tournaments, Bay FC wants a repeat playoff appearance.

Bay FC forward Penelope Hocking joined the team late last season, in time for their playoff push, and she remembers the surge the team was on a year ago. The group won three of their last five games to launch themselves into the 2024 postseason as a seventh-seed, and in the quarterfinal, pushed eventual 2024 NWSL Championship runners-up Washington Spirit into extra time, where

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