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ALL-AREA GIRLS LACROSSE TEAM
All-area girls lacrosse player of the year katy pridemore
All-Area First Team
First Team continued ASHLEY MACINTYRE
Vero Beach sophomore midfielder Statistics: 17 goals, 4 assists, 35 draw controls, 27 ground balls
ALLISON MODICA Meredith Baker
Vero Beach senior midfielder/attacker Statistics: 42 goals, 13 assists, 21 draw controls, 28 ground balls
Angie Benson
LEXI MOIRANO
Vero Beach senior attacker Statistics: 52 goals, 43 assists, 15 ground balls Zan Biedenharn
SYDNEY MURPHY
Olivia Blakeman
Vero Beach sophomore defender Statistics: 4 goals, 3 assists, 5 draw controls, 32 ground balls
CHLOE O’HAIRE
Hope Cotten
St. Edward’s senior midfielder Statistics: 38 goals, 10 assists, 21 ground balls, 66 draws
Ashley MacIntyre
HANNAH PALAU
Vero Beach sophomore midfielder Statistics: 12 goals, 24 assists, 32 draw controls, 46 ground balls
HANNAH PRIDEMORE Allie Modica
Vero Beach sophomore attacker/midfielder Statistics: 22 goals, 20 assists, 23 draw controls, 20 ground balls
Lexi Moirano
QUINN ROE
Sydney Murphy
Martin County sophomore midfielder/defender Statistics: 44 goals, 16 assists, 19 ground balls, 12 interceptions, 54 draw controls
Chloe O’Haire
ABBY SHIELDS ALEX BOERNER/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS
Vero Beach High School’s Katy Pridemore is the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers 2013 Girls Lacrosse All-Area Player of the Year.
Hannah Palau
A blossoming star
Hannah Pridemore
Indians’ Katy Pridemore was a triple-threat despite constant defensive attention
Quinn Roe
By Laurel Pfahler
Abby Shields
laurel.pfahler@scripps.com 772-978-2282
Caroline Smith
MEREDITH BAKER
Vero Beach senior defender/midfielder Statistics: 12 goals, 9 assists, 18 draw controls, 26 ground balls
ANGIE BENSON
Martin County sophomore goalkeeper Statistics: Saved 200 of 360 shots for a 55 percent save rate
ZAN BIEDENHARN
Vero Beach sophomore attacker Statistics: 24 goals, 16 assists, 14 draw controls, 22 ground balls
OLIVIA BLAKEMAN
St. Edward’s junior midfielder Statistics: 44 goals, 21 assists, 34 caused turnovers, 44 ground balls, 43 draw controls
HOPE COTTEN
Jensen Beach junior midfielder Statistics: 70 goals, 7 assists, 38 interceptions, 78 ground balls, 42 forced turnovers, 39 draw controls
Katy Pridemore began playing lacrosse in Georgia when she was 12 years old, but her game reached a new level during the two-plus years she spent in Maryland, competing against the best in a lacrosse hotbed. This year, the Vero Beach High School junior midfielder shined like never before. During her second season with the Fighting Indians, Pridemore guided the team to an eighth straight state championship win, scoring 92 goals, 29 assists and playing her best against top competition. Pridemore, a two-time first-team All-American who also led the team in ground balls, is the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers All-Area Player of the Year. “Anytime you play Vero Beach High School, you know you have to key in on her,” Vero Beach coach Shannon Dean said. “She was guarded by the other teams’ best defender all the time, no matter where she was on the field. To put up the numbers and lead this team like she did, while being keyed on by other teams, says a lot about her talent level. “If she’s not in the game, you see a big difference.” A natural lacrosse talent seems to run in Pridemore’s family. Pridemore’s older brother, Ben, is headed to Notre Dame for lacrosse after finishing his career at Boys’ Latin, a boarding school in Maryland that spent most of the season as the unanimous No. 1 team in the Nike/U.S. Lacrosse Top 25. Her sister, Hannah, is a sophomore starter at Vero Beach; younger brother Ross played varsity at St. Edward’s as a seventh-grader; and fifth-grader Lydia also is a likely future player at Vero Beach as well. “Neither of my parents played, but we got into it when we lived
Vero Beach sophomore midfielder/attacker Statistics: 26 goals, 17 assists, 21 draw controls, 27 ground balls
CAROLINE SMITH
Martin County junior midfielder Statistics: 54 goals, 7 assists, 10 ground balls, 17 draws
Honorable Mention
Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
CASSIDY BELL Pine School senior goalkeeper
KATY PRIDEMORE
SHANNON DEAN
CHRISTIANA BUTZ St. Edward’s junior attacker
Vero Beach, 11th year This season: Guided Vero Beach to a 20-4 finish and eighth straight state championship victory. The Fighting Indians went 3-4 against tough out-of-state competition with a marquee win over No. 3 St. Anthony’s (N.Y.), and they extended their in-state win streak to 111 games by going 17-0 against Florida competition this year. The Indians finished No. 13 in the Nike/ U.S. Lacrosse Top 25 and No. 2 in the South Region. Dean is 224-23-1 during his tenure at Vero Beach. Quotable: “This season, with the schedule we created, was very challenging to me as a coach. It is great to be a part of a program with high expectations year in and year out. We knew we had the ability to compete with the top teams in the nation, but sometimes the ball doesn’t roll your way. That’s what made it fun and challenging. Even though we had some peaks and valleys, it all came together for St. Anthony’s and that was a springboard for our postseason.”
Vero Beach junior midfielder Statistics: 92 goals, 29 assists, 39 draw controls, 35 ground balls Coach Shannon Dean: “Katy is a game-changer. She has power, she’s aggressive, and she can make things happen on the field. Katy is such a dominant player in all aspects of the game — draws, offense or defense. She is our best ground-baller. She’s unbelievable. Players like that don’t come around too often.”
in Georgia, after my older brother started to play,” Pridemore said. “He had played two or three years before I picked up a stick (at age 12). I used to be a year-round swimmer, but I decided to try and it stuck.” Pridemore had only been playing a couple years when she moved to Maryland, but she credited that experience for helping her grow as a player. After spending her freshman year at Notre Dame Prep in Baltimore — but missing the season with an injury — she and her family moved to Vero Beach in December 2011, a month before she committed to the University of Florida. “It (the level of play in Maryland) was a shock at first, but after a while, I loved it,” Pridemore said. “The competition was awesome. It made me want to get better because there were so many good high school players, and I wanted to be like that. I just practiced all the time and kept working at it. All my best friends I met through lacrosse, so we would go play on the weekends and after school — it was a lot of fun. “It definitely helped me improve because you get better playing with better competition.” Pridemore’s top efforts came in Vero Beach’s biggest games. Among the highlights was an eight-goal,
LOGAN EISINGER Vero Beach junior defender/midfielder LEXI FERGUSON Jensen Beach senior defender ABBIE HORCHAR South Fork freshman midfielder STEPHANIE KANE St. Edward’s senior attacker TIFFANY LASTER Pine School junior attacker EMILY LONG Vero Beach junior defender ALLISON MCDONOUGH Vero Beach sophomore goalkeeper KAI MILDENBERGER Jensen Beach freshman midfielder HEATHER ROACHE St. Edward’s senior midfielder ANNELISE ROMERO Pine School eighth-grade midfielder/attacker
three-ground ball effort in an upset win over then No. 3 St. Anthony’s (N.Y.). She also scored six goals in outof-state games against Archbishop Carroll (Pa.), No. 5 Georgetown Visitation (D.C.) and No. 11 Milton (Ga.). Vero Beach finished No. 13 nationally. “We played a tough schedule this year and we hung in there against all of them, but couldn’t finish some of those teams off,” Pridemore said. “It just motivates us to show everyone next year we can beat them.”
HAILEY SINGER Martin County junior defender SAMANTHA SINGER Martin County freshman midfielder TARA WINDSOR Martin County junior attacker
All-Area Schedule June 4
June 5
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
tuesday
wednesday
Girls Tennis
Boys Tennis
Girls Track
Boys Track
Softball
Baseball
Girls Lacrosse
Boys Lacrosse
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