Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

Following a strong season that included a 13-4 record and a spot in a Class 4A substate final City High swept the individual awards in the Mississippi Valley Conference Valley Division.

Seniors Maclayne Menzel and Claire Smothers were named athlete of the year and keeper of the year on Monday when the league released its postseason awards.

City High and West High each had seven players named to the Valley Division teams while Liberty High had eight players earn all-Mississippi Division honors.

Menzel headlined the postseason honorees earning player of the year honors after scoring a career-high 21 goals to lead the Little Hawks.

A four-year starter, Menzel added a career-high nine assists for City High this season.

Smothers earned keeper of the year honors after making 90 saves while allowing just 16 goals and posting nine shutouts in 17 matches.

Seniors Ava Bell and Aoife Boulter joined Menzel on the Valley Division first team.

Bell had 12 goals and 11 assists this season while Boulter had six goals and two assists.

Seniors Kelsey Dilanni and Kaitlyn Brown each earned second-team all-Valley Division honors for City High.

Dilanni led City High with 18 assists and ranked second on the team with 13 goals while Brown had six goals for the Little Hawks.

Smothers and senior Claire Loria each earned honorable mention all-Valley Division honors for Seniors Serene Hamzeh and Alyson Skala and junior Emma Potthoff were all named to the Valley Division first team for West High.

Potthoff led West High with 10 goals and added three assists while Hamzeh had a team-high 10 assists and scored five goals.

Skala scored a goal and helped West High to a 11-5 record and a spot in a Class 4A substate title game.

Seniors Maya Mozena and Ava Garcia were both second-team selections for the Trojans.

Mozena had four goals and two assists and Garcia ranked second on the team with eight goals and had four assists.

Junior Paz Martinez and sophomore keeper Lauryn Hynek each earned honorable mention honors for West High.

Liberty High had eight players earn all-division honors following the best season in program history that included a 13-5 record, the first MVC title and first state tournament appearance in program history.

Senior Bella Tafolla, junior Rilyn Breinholt and sophomore Callie Stanley were all named to the Mississippi Division first team.

Breinholt led the Lightning with 20 goals and added six assists while Tafolla had seven goals and a team-high 12 assists.

Stanley had seven goals and five assists on her way to earning first-team all-divisional honors.

Senior defender Eno Ituk, junior Alessandra Carvalhaes and sophomore keeper Ava Tague were all second-team selections.

Ituk had two goals and two assists and Carvalhaes had four goals and two assists.

Tague made 72 saves while allowing just 11 goals and posting 11 shutouts in 18 matches.

Freshman Allie Hunter and Morgan Bennett each were named Mississippi Division honorable mention picks.

Mississippi Valley Conference All-division Girls Soccer Team

Mississippi Division

First team – Rilyn Breinholt, Jr., Liberty High; Callie Stanley, Soph., Liberty High; Bella Tafolla, Sr., Liberty High; Ella Ubben, Sr., Cedar Falls; Zoe Zylstra, Jr., Cedar Falls; Emily Beneke, Soph., Cedar Falls; Macie Herting, Soph., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Maria Trotta, Sr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Reese Komenda, Soph., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Rowan Hess, Sr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Olivia Divoky, Jr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Maddie Mohr, Jr., Dubuque Wahlert; Hannan Crompton, Soph., Dubuque Senior

Second team – Alessandra Carvalhaes, Jr., Liberty High; Eno Ituk, Sr., Liberty High; Ava Tague, Soph., Liberty High; Rhea Buchanan, Jr., Cedar Falls; Anna Berger, Sr., Cedar Falls; Lexi Montgomery, Soph., Cedar Falls; Maleigh Olmstead, Jr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Grace Bruns, Jr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Lani Kunz, Jr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Ally Volz, Soph., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Emery Smith, Jr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Ana Rivera, Sr., Dubuque Wahlert; Alison Munshower, Sr., Dubuque Wahlert; Eleanore Richardson, Jr., Dubuque Senior; Christina Egger, Sr., Cedar Rapids Jefferson

Honorable mention – Grace Fober, Sr., Cedar Falls; Peyton Schmidt, Fr., Cedar Falls; Alyssa Patton, Sr., Cedar Rapids Jefferson; Bryn Wilson, Soph., Cedar Rapids Jefferson; Riley Cummings, Soph., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Ella Nove, Sr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Dede Green, Fr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Adalyn Pins, Fr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Ayla Kemp, Sr., Dubuque Senior; Savannah Snyder, Sr., Dubuque Senior; Laura Cushman, Sr., Dubuque Wahlert; Myla Breithaupt, Jr., Dubuque Wahlert; Allie Hunter, Fr., Liberty High; Morgan Bennett, Fr., Liberty High

Athlete of the year – Ella Ubben, Sr., Cedar Falls

Keeper of the year – Madi Mercil, Sr., Cedar Rapids Jefferson

Coaching staff of the year – Liberty High

Valley Division

First team – Abi Roberts, Jr., Linn-Mar; Dreya Kern, Soph., Linn-Mar; Tessa Casebolt, Sr., Linn-Mar; Eden Hofer, Fr., Linn-Mar; Maclayne Menzel, Sr., City High; Ava Bell, Sr., City High; Aoife Boulter, Sr., City High; Serene Hamzeh, Sr., West High; Alyson Skala, Sr., West High; Emma Potthoff, Jr., West High; Elena Kapparos, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Alia Nevarez, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Morgan Hospodarsky, Soph., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Karis Burch, Sr., Waterloo West

Second team – MacKenzie Cejka, Sr., Linn-Mar; Emma Friedman, Sr., Linn-Mar; Carlie Sorg, Jr., Linn-Mar; Kelsey Dilanni, Sr., City High; Kaitlyn Brown, Sr., City High; Maya Mozena, Sr., West High; Ava Garcia, Sr., West High; Olivia Kennedy, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Gracie Driscoll, Fr., Dubuque Hempstead; Liza Scherbring, Fr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Cora Aiels, Soph., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Sophie Vandersee, Jr., Waterloo West; Lisanne Blessing, Jr., Waterloo West; Natalie Coyle, Sr., Western Dubuque; Katy Anderson, Sr., Cedar Rapids Washington

Honorable mention – Sophie Beltz, Soph., Cedar Rapids Washington; Geniva Bann, Soph., Cedar Rapids Washington; Annabelle Attwood, Sr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Carly Giddings, Soph., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Audrey Hruska, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Olivia Edwards, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Claire Smothers, Sr., City High; Claire Loria, Sr., City High; Paz Martinez, Jr., West High; Lauryn Hynek, Soph., West High; Maya Havener, Sr., Linn-Mar; Aubrey Luck, Soph., Linn-Mar; Leah Schwenker, Sr., Western Dubuque; Kylie Monahan, Sr., Western Dubuque; Selena Muhamedagic, Sr., Waterloo West; Isabel Stafsholt, Sr., Waterloo West

Athlete of the year – Maclayne Menzel, Sr., City High

Keeper of the year – Claire Smothers, Sr., City High

Coaching staff of the year – West High and Cedar Rapids Washington

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