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Lindsey to play at W. Kentucky
Perry Meridian’s Stephanie Lindsey, a member of The Indianapolis Star’s girls soccer Super Team this season, has signed to play collegiately at Western Kentucky. Lindsey played primarily in the back for this season and finished with nine...
Girls Soccer Super Team Player of the Year: Brownsburg's Nicole Duncan
Brownsburg High School soccer standout Nicole Duncan has been named the 2009 Indianapolis Star Girls Soccer Super Team Player of the Year by a vote of area coaches. The 5-6 senior forward had 25 goals and eight assists to lead the Bulldogs to a third...
Boys Soccer Super Team Player of the Year: Zionsville's Harrison Petts
Zionsville High School’s Harrison Petts is a repeat pick for The Indianapolis Star’s 2009 Boys Soccer Super Team Player of the Year in a vote of area coaches. The 5-11 senior forward had 17 goals and eight assists despite missing time...
State champion Irish garner honors
Girls soccer state champion Cathedral High School is well represented on this year’s Indianapolis Star All-City team. The Star’s boys and girls All-City and All-Marion County teams were selected based on a vote of area coaches with input...
All-East Boys Soccer Player of the Year: New Palestine's Caleb Kolby
New Palestine midfielder Caleb Kolby is the Indianapolis Star’s All-East boys soccer player of the year. Kolby scored 24 goals and added 10 assists while leading the Dragons to the North Central Semistate. Players from all Hancock County...
All-South Boys Soccer Player of the Year: Center Grove's Mike Martin
Center Grove midfielder Mike Martin is The Indianapolis Star’s All-South boys soccer player of the year. Martin led Johnson County in scoring and helped guide the Trojans to the Center Grove Regional finals, where they lost to Avon 2-1. He also...
All-East Girls Soccer Player of the Year: New Palestine's Tracie Meyer
New Palestine junior defender Tracie Meyer is The Indianapolis Star’s All-East girls soccer Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. Meyer shared the honor with former teammate Jessica Box in 2008 but has it all to herself this...
All-North Girls Soccer Player of the Year: Zionsville's Hadley Stuart
At the beginning of the year, her Zionsville High School soccer team needed her to score. So she did. Then, when a midseason injury forced her to switch roles, she did that too. So although Hadley Stuart didn’t lead the 16-3-4 Eagles in points...
All-South Girls Soccer Player of the Year: Center Grove's Sarah Patterson
Center Grove goalkeeper Sarah Patterson is The Indianapolis Star’s All-South girls soccer player of the year. Players from Johnson County schools are eligible for the honor. Patterson had 12 shutouts and led the Trojans to a state-record 13th...
All-North Boys Coach of the Year: Zionsville's Bashir Birany
Heading into 2009, there weren’t many ways the Zionsville boys soccer team could improve. The Eagles had gone 20-4-1 the year before, reached sudden-death penalty kicks in the state finals before losing to Evansville Memorial — and were...
All-West Girls Soccer Coach of the Year: Mooresville's Jason Damron
When Jason Damron took over the Mooresville girls soccer team in 2002, he just wanted to get students involved in the sport. Now, with game-tested players entering the program as freshmen, Damron has them winning — helping earn him the 2009...
All-West Boys Soccer Coach of the Year: Avon's Phil Schmidt
After leading his Orioles to a 17-2-3 record, a second straight sectional championship, the third regional title in school history and a trip to the semistate finals, Avon coach Phil Schmidt has been named 2009 All-West Boys Soccer Coach of the...
All-North Boys Soccer Player of the Year: Zionsville's Harrison Petts
This season didn’t go smoothly for Zionsville senior Harrison Petts. His numbers were down — way down from last year’s 41 goals and 26 assists — thanks in part to a midseason knee injury that knocked him out for several...
All-North Girls Soccer Coach of the Year: Zionsville's Ramon Aguillon
Ramon Aguillon knows how it goes with coaches. When they win, they get the praise. When they lose, they get the blame. This year, Zionsville’s girls soccer team won. A lot — including twice each over No. 1 Carmel and No. 3 Noblesville,...
All-West Boys Soccer Player of the Year: Avon's Kyle Sparks
During its run to the semistate finals, a number of players stood out on the Avon boys soccer team. Jeff Bryant (11 goals, four assists), Mike Grossnickle (one goal, eight assists), Ian Klotz (six goals, seven assists) and Trevor Schmidt (eight...
All-West Girls Soccer Player of the Year: Brownsburg's Nicole Duncan
As a junior, Brownsburg’s Nicole Duncan tallied 17 goals and five assists, and earned the 2008 All-West Girls Soccer Player of the Year award. For an encore, Duncan scored a school-record 25 goals, added eight assists, helped her Bulldogs to a...
Eagles make certain this one doesn't get away
They waited a year for this. A year of training and practicing and working toward another chance. A year of fighting through injuries, including a near-devastating one to their best player. A year of mostly winning, but sometimes losing. And a year...
Experience helps Irish win their 2nd state title
As sophomores, they helped Cathedral High School win its first girls soccer state championship. As juniors, they and their Fighting Irish teammates were bounced from the semistate finals — but “played well enough to get to the final...
Zionsville boys overcome injuries for a shot at redemption in soccer state finals
“We’re ready.” That’s the message coming from Zionsville High School boys soccer coach Bashir Birany heading into today’s IHSAA state finals at Kuntz Stadium. It’s hard to argue — the fourth-ranked Eagles...
Super sophomore soccer players at Cathedral are now seniors
Cathedral girls soccer team on a mission That the Cathedral High School girls soccer team earned a berth in Saturday’s state semifinals shouldn’t be a surprise. Six current players started for the 2007 state champions and the nucleus that...
Avon's accomplishments produce plenty of pride
‘Great group of seniors’ helped lead regional champs to 17-win season, No. 5 ranking When the Avon boys soccer team’s season ended, the fifth-ranked Orioles were about as close as possible to the state finals without actually...
Healthy Petts too much for Millers
Zionsville star returns from major knee injury to score twice, but Noblesville boys still a proud bunch Things couldn’t have started out any better for the Noblesville boys soccer team last Saturday morning. Facing fourth-ranked Zionsville in...
Eagles get another chance at a state title
Gathered in the locker room, still suffering from their sudden-death penalty kicks loss to Evansville Memorial in the 2008 state championship game, the Zionsville boys soccer team said to each other, “We’ve got to get them next...
Eagles have long list of successes to savor
The Zionsville girls soccer team came close — really close — to achieving its ultimate goal but fell to No. 9 Cathedral 2-0 in the championship game of last Saturday’s North Central Semistate. “Obviously we wanted to continue...
Dragons' boys, girls teams play tough against ranked foes
New Palestine boys soccer coach John Box knew it would take a superb performance for the Dragons to beat No. 5 Avon in the North Central Semistate last Saturday. They merely got a decent one and lost to the Orioles 3-0. “Avon is a very good...
Bulldogs' splendid season comes to an end
Girls soccer coach calls 18-win year one of the best in a long time They beat No. 7 Zionsville and No. 9 Cathedral, entered the postseason ranked fifth in the state, then won the school’s third straight girls soccer sectional and regional...
Early deficit dooms Guerin in soccer semistate
Eagles had opportunities to rally against Fort Wayne Snider FORT WAYNE, Ind. — When Guerin Catholic fell behind 11th-ranked Fort Wayne Snider by two goals early in Tuesday’s Snider Semistate final, the Golden Eagles were in a familiar...
Memories push Irish to finals
The juniors and seniors on the Cathedral girls soccer team remember how it felt when the Irish won the state title in 2007. They also remember how it felt when they lost to Noblesville in last year’s North Central Semistate final. With that...
Eagles get it done before penalty kicks
After losing on penalty kicks in last year’s boys soccer state championship game, Zionsville wasn’t taking any chances on a repeat occurrence. With time winding down in overtime, the Eagles’ three senior stars connected on a play...
Chatard/Roncalli double? Brebeuf handles it
The Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School volleyball team had to beat perennial powers Bishop Chatard and Roncalli on the same day to win a sectional title for the third consecutive year Saturday at Howe. But after having to overcome deficits the two...
