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Van Wormer Headlines All-State Soccer

Written on December 2, 2015 by Staff Reporter

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Warsaw Community High School senior Elizabeth Van Wormer was recently named First Team All-State by the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association. (Photo provided)
Warsaw Community High School senior Elizabeth Van Wormer was recently named First Team All-State by the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association. Van Wormer is seen posing with several awards gathered from this season. (Photo provided)

INDIANAPOLIS – One more time for the greatest scorer in Warsaw girls soccer history. Elizabeth Van Wormer gathered yet another impressive accolade in her storied high school soccer career, being named First Team All-State by the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association.

Van Wormer quietly went about her business for four years at Warsaw piling up stats and helping her club succeed. When it was all said and done this October, Van Wormer tied the school record for assists in a season (14) as well as goals in a single game (5), was one goal short (27) of tying the single-season goals record and did set the all-time points in a season record with 68 points.

As a team, Van Wormer was part of a 2015 Tiger roster that won the Northern Lakes Conference for the first time since 2003 and finished 14-2-1 overall. In Van Wormer’s four years, Warsaw went 51-14-5 with three sectional titles.

Her career marks are equally impressive, scoring 70 goals in her four years and amassing 170 points, both school records. Van Wormer broke Meredith Hollar’s goals record in a four-goal performance in this season’s sectional match against Wawasee. Van Wormer also finished with 30 career assists, one shy of Ashley Kitchen’s record of 31.

Van Wormer was named Third Team All-State as a junior and has racked up dozen of conference and area accolades in her career, including All-District by the ISCA earlier this year.

“First of all, as honored as I am to be named to First Team All-State, I never expected it,” Van Wormer said Wednesday night. “Although it is quite an honor, awards are not the reason I play soccer. I play because I love the game! As much as I love the game, I am lucky to have been blessed with amazing teammates for four years. I have had the most supportive parents and grandparents a girl could ever ask for.

“This last year all the hard work resulted in earning many awards,” continued Van Wormer. “It’s nice to know that all the practices, training, lifting, running paid off. The awards were a nice way to be recognized for all the hard work. An individual reward usually means you have great teammates and wonderful support. I had the best of both!”

Three other area players were named to the ISCA First Team All-State list in Penn’s Kristina Lynch and Kamra Solomon as well as South Bend St. Joseph’s Sam Kambol. The Second Team All-State included Penn’s Mackenzie Wood and Brooke VanDyck and Northridge’s Ellie Lengacher. The Third Team All-State included South Bend Adams’ Mary Claire Burnett and Northridge’s Bailey O’Dell.

On the Honorable Mention All-State list includes Penn’s Jensen Stroinski, Goshen’s Alyssa Hershberger, St. Joe’s Cat Edmonds and Argos’ Courtney Dunlap.

The ISCA Player of the Year was Macy Miller of Carmel and the Coach of the Year went to Brebeuf Jesiut’s Angela Berry-White.

The boys All-State lists also included plenty of local flavor.

Goshen’s Sebastian Flores and Mishawaka Marian’s Augie Hartnagel were both part of the First Team All-State list, and Penn’s Noah Craig made Second Team All-State. Third Team All-State went to Concord’s Paco Ocampo, Elkhart Memorial’s Jamie Garcia, and the St. Joe duo of Louis Nanni and Gunnar Sadoway.

Honorable Mention All-State included Javier Vera of Elkhart Central and Nick Allen of DeKalb.

Carmel also had the boys Player of the Year in Andreas Roslender and Center Grove’s Jameson McLaughlin was tabbed as Coach of the Year.

Elizabeth Van Wormer, who was named First Team All-State by ISCA, tied the Warsaw school record for career goals on this shot earlier in the Plymouth Sectional. (File photo by Mike Deak)
Elizabeth Van Wormer, who was named First Team All-State by ISCA, tied the Warsaw school record for career goals on this shot earlier in the Plymouth Sectional. (File photo by Mike Deak)
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