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A State Championship for Girls Soccer, Plus Other Accolades
The Lions girls soccer team celebrates around the WIAA 3A state championship trophy after a dominant, 19-win season.
T H E 2 0 2 1 G I R L S S O C C E R season began right alongside every
other fall sports team at Lakeside: in the dry mid-August heat. And as late-summer turned into fall turned into early-winter November, the Lions remained the hottest team in the state. The veteran team scored 65 goals during the season to their opponents’ 12, and captured the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) 3A state championship trophy on November 19 at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. It wasn’t just state dominance the girls declared: it was also a chase after Lakeside girls soccer history. Nearly every record the team keeps is now held by the 2021 team or an individual from it: goals scored in a season by a team; 8 L AKESIDE
wins in a season by a team (19); individual goals in a career (28, Cate Lewison ’22); and individual goals in a season (22, also by Lewison). Goalkeeper Hannah Dickinson ’22, who jumped in front of the final shootout penalty kick in the
state semifinal to send the Lions to the state championship game, now holds the marks for individual goalkeeper saves in a career (181) and in a game (10), and was named 2021 Washington State Soccer Coaches Association Player of the Year. Program head and head varsity coach Derrek Falor was named Metro League Coach of the Year. The girls swim and dive team made waves of their own in the fall, taking home their eighth Metro League championship trophy in the last ten years, and earning second in the WIAA 3A championship meet. Ninth grader Ella J. ’25 won the individual 100 butterfly event in a school-rePhotos by Clayton Christy; collages by Mike Lengel
