Missouri Class 1 Girls Soccer All-State Honors

Natalie Smid, Springfield Catholic (2011) with the clearance

The Missouri Soccer Coaches Association has released their All-State Girls squads for the 2011 Spring Season. Congratulations to local representatives who will play in the All-Star game on Thursday – Natalie Smid, Shelby Hatz, Andrea Parker, Amanda White, Carsen Baron, Rebecca Mayus, Emily Ortega. And to the underclassmen recognized this year as well – Nicole [...]

Class 1 District 12 Soccer Honors

Samantha Graham, McAuley Warriors (2011)

The Missouri Soccer Coaches Association poll of coaches has named their All-District Honors for Class 1 District 12, consisting of District Champions Springfield Catholic, District finalist McAuley Warriors and the Greenwood Blue Jays. . 1st Team . Player School Position Year School Position Year . Shelby Hatz Catholic Fightin' Irish F 2011 . Natalie Smid [...]

Missouri Class 1 Final Four – Will Catholic Repeat?

Natalie Smid, Springfield Catholic (2011) vs SoBoCo, 2011 Quarterfinals

The Class 1 Final 4 will open on Friday morning with an 11:00 am match between St Vincent and Orchard Farm. The Springfield Catholic girls will take the field to defend their State Title at 1:00 pm on Friday, opening with a semifinal against Kansas City-based Pembroke Hill. I’m picking St Vincent to advance to [...]

Drury Women’s Soccer Completes Five-Member Recruiting Class

Emily Cline, Glendale Falcons (2011)

Drury women’s soccer coach Alf Bilbao has announced the completion of a five-member recruiting class for the 2011-12 season – including three Springfield prep standouts – for the Panthers. Joining the DU program this fall are: Emily Cline – Forward from Springfield’s Glendale High School who plans to play both soccer and basketball at Drury. [...]

Missouri High School Soccer: Girls Class 1 District 11 Preview

Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic (2011)

Girls soccer has a new alignment this year. For those who missed my earlier story, MSHSAA has set up three equal classes with 16 Districts each (8 previously in Class 1 and 2). The intent is to offer Sectional and Quarterfinal games for every class. That also means there are twice as many District Champions [...]

Girls Season Begins In 4 Weeks

Natalie Smid celebrates Bekah Bade's game-winner

The final Club tournaments of the season wrapped up yesterday, with over 100 area girls from three Clubs (Springfield SC, Missouri Elite FC and Total Prodigy) competing in the Showcase of the South. Gorgeous weather and pretty good results in Little Rock for our girls, look for reports as they come in. Now they focus [...]

Missouri Class 1 Girls Soccer Southwest/Central Regional Honors

Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co Eagles (2010)

The Missouri Soccer Coaches Association has released their Class 1 Southwest/Central Regional Honors Player of the Year – Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co-Offensive Players of the Year – Shelby Hatz and Natalie Smid, Springfield Catholic Co-Defensive Players of the Year – Carsen Baron and Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic Co-Goalkeepers of the Year – Rachel Scott [...]

Maddy Esther and 10 Catholic Players Are Class 1 All-State

Springfield Catholic Girls Soccer, 2010 State Champions

The Missouri Soccer Coaches Association has release their 2010 Girls Class 1 All-State recognition. Player of the Year – Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Offensive Player of the Year – Abby Lappe, St. Vincent Co-Defensive Player of the Year – Carsen Baron and Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic Goalkeeper of the Year – Taylor Zerbe, Trinity Coach [...]

Missouri Class 1 Girls Soccer – Catholic vs Trinity In The Final

Natalie Smid and Shelby Hatz celebrate the game-winning goal

Springfield Catholic – 1 St Vincent Indians – 0 Words can’t do justice to the game played today by the Fightin’ Irish. Coach Ben Timson called upon 17 players today and each brought their A game, consistently battling for 50/50 balls and making the run to support their teammates. Led in the middle by Natalie [...]

Tuesday Soccer Report

Bekah Bade, Catholic scoring from a corner kick

Springfield Catholic – 10 Neosho Wildcats – 0 The Wildcats ran into a buzzsaw tonight at Cooper #1 as the Irish wasted no time attacking the goal, scoring 3 goals in the first 10 minutes. The scoring pace slowed but the game still finished in the 60th minute this evening as Bekah Bade slotted in [...]

Missouri High School Girls Soccer Opens At Springfield Catholic

Head Coach Ben Timson with Jessica Smits (back left)

Spring sports opened across the State on Monday and I made my inaugural trip of the season to see Springfield Catholic, last seen capturing 3rd Place in Class 1 in June 2009. While we might argue the semantics of Spring in the Ozarks right now, with temperatures dropping rapidly during practice, the quality of the [...]

2009 Missouri Class 1 High School Girls All-State Teams

Co-Player of the Year – Courtney Besand, St. Vincent Co-Player of the Year – Alicia Vonderheid, Trinity Offensive POY – Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co-Defensive POY – Justine Dover, Sacred Heart Co-Defensive POY – Emily McMeekin, Barstow Goalkeeper POY – Taylor Zerbe, Trinity Private Coach of the Year – Dustin Wengert, St. Vincent Public Coach [...]

2009 Missouri Class 1 Central And Southwest All-Region Team

Player of the Year: Tillie Bill, Southern Boone Co-Offensive POY: Shelby Hatz, Springfield Catholic Co-Offensive POY: Natalie Smid, Springfield Catholic Co-Defensive POY: Rebecca Mayus, Springfield Catholic Co-Defensive POY: Carsen Baron, Springfield Catholic Goalkeeper of the Year: Rebekah Dowd, Southern Boone COY-Private: Ben Timson, Springfield Catholic COY-Public: Chris Miller, Southern Boone Position Player Year School D [...]

2009 Central Ozarks Conference Girls Soccer All-Conference Team

All Central Ozarks Conference 1st Team Maddy Renner, Senior, Midfielder, Catholic Shelby Hatz, Sophomore, Forward, Catholic Rebecca Mayus, Sophomore, Defender, Catholic Natalie Smid, Sophomore, Midfielder, Catholic Jody McFarlen, Senior, Forward, Bolivar Sara Scott, Senior, Goalkeeper, Bolivar Jonna Welch, Sophomore, Forward, Bolivar Ashley Honeycutt, Junior, Defender, Marshfield Alex Cantrell, Sophomore, Midfielder, Marshfield Michelle Crawford, Senior, Forward, [...]

Missouri High School Girls Soccer: Class 1 District 6 Semifinal Round

#3 McAuley Warriors – 4 #2 Greenwood Blue Jays – 3 In a game that mirrors the regular season match up between these two schools, it was McAuley that storms back from a 3-1 deficit to first tie, and finally win the match this evening. A replica of Greenwood’s results at McAuley in late April. [...]