Great players

Just like the boys team, I’ve been fortunate enough to cover a lot of great girls soccer players at Siloam Springs. I think back to the 2010, 2011 and 2012 teams which featured Adrienne Kennedy (2010 and 2011) and Ashley Cowan (2010 and 2012).

Both were terrific goal scorers. Kennedy, who went on to play and coach at John Brown, scored 91 goals for her career, which ranks only second to Sarah Kidd, who scored 101 goals and went on to play at John Brown. Cowan finished with 61 goals in just three seasons, missing her junior year.

Leah Anderson was a solid senior player for the 2011 team at Siloam Springs and Hannah Poor started in goal as a sophomore, the beginning of a long, great career that saw her get to play for a state title in 2013.

Morgan Jackson, Ingrid Gibson and Grayson Tharp — all, who would win state titles as seniors in 2014

— were freshmen on that 2011 team.

The 2012 team featured all conference players like Sami Abbey, Michaela Treece, Colleen Kretzer, Jackson and Annabeth Raiford (honorable mention) to go with Poor and Cowan.

Dynamic scorer Odalys Palacios also was on that team as were Annika Bos and Jaci Hoelscher.

That same group played for a state title in 2013.

These are the players that laid the groundwork.

Then there’s the great players from the state title years, many of whom have already been mentioned: Lindsey Czapansky, Bailei Brown, Kaylie Lane, Grace Simpson, Annika Bos, Khenli Harp, Maycee Lance, Anna Claire Lewis, Mackenzie Jones, Abigail

Cole, Megan Hutto, Audrey Maxwell, Meghan Kennedy, Sydney Bomstad, Brooklyn Buckminster, Paige Thompson, Laura Morales, Shelby Johnson, Hailey Dorsey, Hadley Crenshaw, Madi Race, Jaileigh Harp, Bethany

Markovich, Sydney Moorman and I could go on and on and on.

For anyone I left out, I do apologize. There have been a tremendous amount of young ladies to wear the Lady Panther uniform over the years.