- Dale Duff Reporting ([email protected])
The Maine Soccer Coaches Association has honored the best players and coaches from this fall’s covid-shortened season. The list includes two players from the North Region gaining All America status, Hermon’s Sydney Gallop and Brewer’s Gavin Carr.
Gallop scored 18 goals this fall as the Hawks went undefeated in the fall. She is a junior and has scored 78 goals. Carr, a senior, scored 13 goals for the Witches and becomes the program’s first All America award winner.
Their coaches, MJ Ball (Hermon) and Ben Poland (Brewer) won Coach of the Year honors.
Check out the complete list of honorees…
Maine Soccer Coaches All America/All Region
Maine’s Four All Americas:
Girls
Maggie Cochran of Cape Elizabeth High School
Sydney Gallop of Hermon High School
Boys
Gus Ford of Falmouth High School
Gavin Carr of Brewer High School
Maine Soccer Coaches “Class Player of the Year”
Girls
Class A: Hailey Koons of Bonny Eagle High School
Class B: Maggie Cochran of Cape Elizabeth High School
Class C: Gabrielle Martin of Fort Kent High School and Lakyn Hink of Sacopee Valley High School
Class D: Hannah Hubbard of Temple Academy
Boys
Class A: Gus Ford of Falmouth High School
Class B: Ethan Holdsworth of Caribou High School
Class C: Liam Farrell of Orono High School
Class D: Kobe Gilbert of Piscataquis High School
Maine Soccer Coaches “Coach of the Year”
Girls
Southern Maine “Coach of the Year”
Graham Forsyth of Cape Elizabeth High School
Northern Maine “Coach of the Year”
M J Ball of Hermon High School
Boys
Southern Maine “Coach of the Year:
Brandon Salway of Waynflete School
Northern Maine “Coach of the Year:
Ben Poland of Brewer High School
United Soccer Coaches Region 1 Nominees
Girls
In the “Large School” category:
M J Ball of Hermon High School
In the “Small School” category:
Doug Cyr of Fort Kent Community High School
In the “Private School” category:
Craig Roberts of Cheverus High School
Boys
In the “Large School” category:
David Halligan of Falmouth High School
In the “Small School” category:
Steve LaPierre of Van Buren High School
In the “Private School” category:
Brandon Salway of Waynflete
NOTE: Award list courtesy Maine Soccer Coaches Assn/Mike Jeffrey