The U18 girls’ soccer team brought home the silver and the fair play award at this year’s provincials in Edson on July 11 to 13.
This marks the second silver medal in a row for the U18 girls.
Stettler won against Carstairs with a score of 3-2 and Hinton with a score of 10-0; tied 1-1 against St. Paul and lost their final game to Edson with a score of 4-3.
“The girls had a fantastic season,” said coach Shelley Davis-Hall. “They didn’t lose a game until their final game in provincials.”
MVPs for the tournament were Kennedy Fisher, Breanna Davis-Hall, Carly Armstrong, Georgia England, Katie Monaghan and Jillian Broemeling.
The U18 girls were the only team out of Stettler to win a fair play award at provincials. For each game played, the referees look at the team’s sportsmanship, coaches, and everything that happens during a game, and then give a score out of 10. Out of four games, for a possible total of 40, the U18 girls received 39 points.
“They had no cards all weekend,” Davis-Hall said. “Not a yellow, not a red, nothing…they were so disciplined; it was amazing.”
Though the tournament was rough on the girls, with one player getting a swollen black eye from hitting her head, they still went out and did their best without complaint.
“Every single girl was sore and injured,” she said. “You name it, we bloody well had it, and they all played through it…there wasn’t one girl on the field that didn’t have something.”
Davis-Hall is losing a lot of players after this year, and she said that any incoming players will have big shoes to fill.
“Anybody coming up behind them, they’re going to have to do a lot of work to get to where these girls are,” she said. “They had to work their behinds off to get to where they were.”
Davis-Hall found it difficult to pick any standout moments in a season of standout moments.
“I can’t pick one thing out, I can’t pick one player out,” she said. “They’re all amazing. Every girl.”
In the 2014 season, U18 girl scored 105 goals, 14 goals against, 18 shutouts, 22 wins, 2 ties and 1 loss. In addition, they won three gold medals and one silver medal.