Southeast High’s Owen Swogger

By Hayden Swope

Owen Swogger, a soccer athlete from Southeast High School, was chosen as the Shelter Insurance Athlete of the Month for September. Last season Swogger was an honorable mention all-league selection player.

“It is an honor to be chosen,” Swogger said.

Swogger has spent the offseason on and off the field working on his skills on defense.

“I go on runs and go to the gym,” Swogger said. “The weakness I wanted to work on was distributing the ball out of the defensive end of the field.”

Swogger has been preparing for the competition making sure he’s ready on both sides of the ball.

“I want to reduce the amount of turnovers I have and work on my positioning for players that are faster than me so I don’t get beat out in the back,” Swogger said.

After high school, Swogger hopes to attend college to become an engineer.

“I want to go to Butler Community College and then further on go to Wichita State University to be a robotics engineer,” Swogger said.

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By Hayden Swope

Juan-Pablo Salgado, a soccer athlete from Newton, was voted the Wichita Large School Boys Soccer Poll Winner. Coming off of a recent injury, Salgado is ready to get back on the field for a new season.

“After last season, I have been playing for two clubs, Newton FC 03 and KRW Rush Academy 05, which I feel helped me prepare for this season,” Salgado said. “I’ve been Injured most of the summer but when I recovered I did my best in our team’s conditioning to try to get back in shape.”

Salgado has been focused on getting his team to state this season, while also keeping his own goals at the top of his list.

“My goal for this season is to make it to at least the state semi-finals,” Salgado said. “We have a great team this year and I’m sure we can accomplish it. I also hope to score at least 15 goals and get at least seven assists as well.”

While undecided on his studies, Salgado does plan to continue his soccer career in college.

“I plan to play college soccer in a division two school,” Salgado said. “I’m still not sure about what I’m going to study but I have some interest in engineering.”