Program Notes for the Week of 11/14/2016:
2016 All-Ohio:
History was made on Sunday evening as
Olivia Siko and
Kellie Norris were both named Division I All-Ohio for this past season. This is the first time in the 24 year history of Avon Lake girls soccer that the team has had two players in the same year named All-Ohio. Additional firsts were achieved as
Olivia Siko became the first Shoregal player named First Team All-Ohio as well as she was the first Shoregal to be named All-Ohio twice – she was Second Team All-Ohio in 2015.
Kellie Norris earned a place as Second Team All-Ohio. No other team in the SWC had two players named as All-Ohio and only 4 other schools in Division I had two players named All-Ohio. Siko and Norris became the 11th and 12th players in Avon Lake girls soccer history named as All-Ohio. Just a tremendous accomplishment for these players, the coaches, and the program in general as this shows the amount of respect the girls have earned from other coaches from their play on the field.
To see all the All-Ohio selections go to:
http://www.ossca.info/
Then click on the All State Honors hypelink
2016 Postseason Awards:
We are going to start over the next several weeks listing the many awards that were earned by the girls this past season. This week we will start off with the awards for the Lorain County Soccer Coaches Association:
Lorain County MVP D1 Girls Soccer
Olivia Siko
1st Team All-Lorain County
Olivia Siko
1st Team All-Lorain County
Kellie Norris
2nd Team All-Lorain County
Kelly Spitz
2nd Team All-Lorain County:
Amber Achladis
Honorable mention:
Allie Heschel
Honorable mention:
Paige Hood
Assistant coach of the year:
Caleb Reutter
Lorain County Senior All-Star Game:
Olivia Siko
Kellie Norris
Lauren Anthony
The game is scheduled for Saturday, November 19th at 12PM at Midview High School in Grafton, Ohio.
2016 State Championships:
This past weekend the Girls State Championship soccer games were played with the following results:
Division I Walsh Jesuit 2 Springboro 0
Division II Kettering Alter 3 Chagrin Falls 0
Division III Gilmour Academy 2 Cincinnati Country Day 1 OT
The Cleveland area was represented in every championship game with two local teams taking home the trophy. This just shows at what a high level that girls soccer in Northeast Ohio is played at.
Shoregals in College:
Now that the college soccer regular season has ended, let's take a look at how some of our Shoregal alumni did with their respective college teams:
Rada Zunich is a sophomore defender with the College of Wooster - she played in 16 games and started 11 for the Scots who finished their season at 6-9-4.
Bri Carlin is a freshman midfielder with St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. She played in 15 games and started 6 and recorded 1 assist for the Bearcats who finished their season as 3-8-6.
Shorty Sez:
We continue with our collection of motivational sayings coming from the Twitter sites called Women Love Sports and Coach K which may be found at:
https://twitter.com/Women_Sports
https://twitter.com/CoachKWisdom
Once there, here are some selected examples of tweets over the past week. Hope you find something that inspires you here:
When I lost all of my excuses, I found all my results....
Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it & staying with that plan.
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
