Player of the Week #DMVPC
#CouragePOW
97 Boys Red - Carlos Flores-Melgar...a dominant performance at
left back with a goal and 3 assists...excellent service all weekend
02 Boys White Blaise Liess: Blaise played an outside back
position for the first time and worked hard to learn his job
quickly. He made good adjustments and used the tournament to
work on his game and develop his ability to play defensively.
00 Boys White: Bryan Sigala maintained a high work rate and
played consistently well as a central defender. He made
adjustments when needed, playing every minute of every game
will maintaining a high work rate.
01 Boys White - John Viers - - Played the full match on the back
line in 3 of 4 games helping the team to go through the weekend
without giving up a goal. John won tackles, read the game well,
and it wasn't until the 3rd game of the weekend that he gave away
a ball. He was rock solid all weekend.
99 Boys White - Sam Ramey -played almost every minute of the
weekend at the #3. Sam was dynamic getting forward, provided
great service from wide positions and set pieces, and scored the
game winning goal against VYS. He was also focused on doing his
defensive duties too. Always a two way player, Sam did well
shutting down the right side of opponents and winning his 1v1
battles in every game this weekend.
00 Boys Red - Jacob Menke - A great quality about Jacob
Menke is (what he presented this past weekend) what a
competitor and a leader he is. He’s such a team player — he
wants his teammates to all do well. When others weren’t
playing well, Jacob pushed and encouraged them to get
better. Everybody looked up to him. He was an outstanding
leader.
00 Girls Red - Jordyn Hurley - tremendous work rate as a
fullback in both attack and defense, consistent ball winner and
tackler
97 Girls Red - Amy Krotine - no goals allowed in 3 halves, two
break away saves to preserve draw in game 1
98 Girls Red - Maggie Bellinger - Anchored a back line that gave
up only one goal and very few opportunities in three
matches. Scored the game winner in the Semi on a full volley
from a corner.
97 Girls White - Samantha Praul, team captain playing the #6 all
weekend. Sammy scored a brilliant goal from 30+ yards on
Saturday. In our toughest match, at halftime we felt we needed to
raise the intensity and be more physical to keep ourselves in the
game. Sammy did a great job leading by example and setting the
tone in the middle of the field. Huge improvement in the second
half and a great learning experience for the team.
99 Girls Red - Elizabeth "E" Hummel - scored a handful of
goals and was an absolute nightmare for the opposition in the 7 and
11 spots en route to an undefeated weekend.
99 Girls White - Madison Coleman played GK guest player for
us as she's a 00 W player from Mike Yeatts girls team. We only
won one of our three games and her attitude as well as
performance was excellent. Cindy Harkes from the ECNL McLean
team came to me and Madison after the game and told her what a
great goalie she is. Playing up this weekend for us I feel she really
did a great job and helped our team throughout the whole weekend.
01 Girls White - Natalie Martin - was named captain for this year
and lead by example. She played GK as well this weekend and
really came up big during our semifinal saving 3 breakaways and a
number of shots taken from our opposition. Our game went to
penalties where our team missed our first three kicks but Natalie
stepped up and had an amazing performance saving 3 penalty shots
in a row which helped our team advance to the finals. Her positive
attitude and leadership played a major role in the team’s success
this weekend at the DMV Cup!
99 Girls Black - Patricia Fisher - one of my captains as player of
the week for always being disciplined when it comes to doing her
job on the field and working really hard in practice and always
working to pick everybody up. She plays the #10 position and is
always doing what she can for the team. During the DMV
tournament this past weekend, she scored 3 goals. Two goals to get
us into the tournament finals and 1 goal to help us win the DMV
Cup. Additionally, Patricia injured her ankle during our second
game and even though she was not physically at 100%, she was
vital for us throughout the tournament.
02 Girls Red - Jenni Reyes - Jenni Reyes led by example
at the DMV Cup. She was absolutely dominant in the #8 role
in all 4 games over the weekend. She played "box to box"
and created as many chances for us as she denied the
opponent. Her distribution out of midfield was excellent and
she was able to run at players all over the field while still
slipping balls for 9, 7, and 11. Special attention should be put
on her performance in her team's 2-0 final victory over
McLean ECNL where she scored the game-winner and was
instrumental throughout in helping her team maintain
possession and regain it instant when lost.
#JenniSchweinsteiger