The Becker Bulldog girls soccer team has a new head coach but a familiar face in Gretchen Changamire, who is taking over for her husband Arnold who coached the girls team since 2009 following Gretchen’s maternity leave.

 

Arnold stays on as an assistant along with Kayla Cox.

 

Gretchen has a long association with the game, having played in high school and college. Her high school team went to state.

 

Last year’s team went 5-9, the most wins the girls soccer program has seen in its short varsity program history. The JV team, coached then by Gretchen, went 8-5-1.

 

This year’s team has just three seniors and three juniors and Gretchen has her hands full getting the younger girls read y to compete at a high level with such little experience. However, the experience gained only bodes well for the future of the program in the years to come.

 

Last year, then-sophomore Talia Cox was named all-conference runner-up and sophomore Rachel Vogl most improved. Then-seventh-grader Lauren Sticha was named rookie of the year and eighth-grader Macy Eigen honored with the coach’s award.

 

On JV, then-seventh-grader Claire Voigt was named rookie of the year, seventh-grader Joey Rothstein received the Bulldog award, sophomore Jasmine Browning was named most improved, sophomore Erica Brovold was named most dedicated, freshman Alli Zimmer garnered the coaches award and team co-MVPs went to freshman Sydney Westin and eighth-grader Kalani Bauer.

 

The girls soccer team for 2014 consists of: Katie Pursley, Hailey Fitzpatrick, Amy Conard, Madeline Corey, Sam Lorette, Lauren Sticha, Macy Eigen, Heidi Voigt, Kate Berning, Rachel Vogl, Megan Peterson, Kami Ziebarth, Kalani Bauer, Allison Zimmer, Kylie Schmidt, Megan Dudek and Claire Voigt.

 

 

Becker scored eight goals in the first half to jump out ahead of Rocori and win the nonconference game Thursday afternoon at home.

Kaitlyn Reinhardt had 15 saves in net for the Spartans.

 

 

Lauren Sticha had a pair of goals and Macy Eigen, Hedi Voigt and Amy Conrad each added goals as Becker topped St. John’s Prep in Granite Ridge Conference action Tuesday on the road.

 

Ellen Arnold and Taylor Nydeen scored for the Johnnies.