CWS Sports Desk
July 12, 2012
SPASH’s Jen Hoerter (r) and Abby Bohanski are members of the Strikers.
Sacramento, CA– Girls soccer players from Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids and Marshfield, as well as other central Wisconsin locations, traveled to California to compete in the Presidents Cup Nationals, which began play on July 12.
The athletes are members of the Central FC Select team– The Strikers. The Strikers are members of the Wisconsin State League at the Premier level; they have played as a team there or in 1st division for approximately 5 years. Last season’s finish in the league qualified them to play in Kansas at the Presidents Cup Region II Championship this year, with the opportunity to advance to Nationals by winning in Kansas.
The Region II Championship in Kansas was played on June 14-17. The Strikers played Kansas first, logging their first tournament victory at Regionals, 6-0. On day 2 of tournament, play they faced Missouri and won that match 4-3. Next, they faced South Dakota, playing behind South Dakota for most of the match, The Strikers rallied back and pulled out a 4-3 win in the last 10 or so minutes of play. Finally, on day 4, they played the championship game against Illinois. The Strikers started strong and never looked back with a sound game and win 6-0 over Illinois.
It was off to California and the Presidents Cup Nationals for the team on July 11. Travel day for most started at around 11pm with a drive to Milwaukee for the flight out at 6:00 this morning with a 1 1/2 hour in Denver and finally landing in Sacramento at 10:30am California time.
The team will played game one this morning and lost 5-1 to a very talented New York team.
Striker roster is as follows:
Coaches:
Dan Millot
Jamie Brzezinski
Ashley Anders
Manager:
Bill Spees
Players:
Stevens Point:
Jennifer Hoerter Captain
Abby Bohanski
Makani Peters
Britney Pinter
Jammie Clemens
Marshfield:
Darian Molter Captain
Walker Guzowski
Emily Goeppinger
Wisconsin Rapids:
Rachel Metz
Lauren Anderson
Waupaca:
Lizzy Hanke
Sierra Patzke
Rhinelander:
Gabby Millot
Morgan Voight
Wausau:
Gretchen Murphy
Iola:
Morgan Spees
Striker notes: The team made the 10-12 hour bus trip to Kansas lots of team bonding for the girls, lots of cards for the adults lots of chatter for everyone!!! The popular YOLO acronym You Only Live Once got modified at this point by the girls to YOCO You Only Cali Once very excited group of girls at this point.
