Boys and Girls Soccer Triumphs Honored for Exceptional Seasons

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Blairsville, Ga – Union County High School (UCHS) Boys and Girls Soccer Teams honored for outstanding 2019 season.

Union County School Board of Education presented awards to both teams for their great season and showing in the state tournament.

UCHS Principal CT Hussion presented the awards to the soccer coaching staff: Girls Head Coach Tim Hunter, Assistant Girls Coach, Boys Head Coach Leland Sarrell, Boys Assistant Coaches Jon Krieger and Chris Robbins.

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UCHS Girls went undefeated in the region.

Starting with the UCHS Girls Soccer Team, Hussion noted that Hunter 259 career wins and commended the players and coaches for a stellar season.

“Girls Soccer team went undefeated in the region,” said Hussion, “What a year, just watching this team go, we had some stellar player moments throughout the year and leading up to the final game against St. Vincent’s. They won state, and I think we gave them the hardest game of the entire tournament.”
St. Vincent’s went on to win state for the 2019 season after beating Union County in the elite eight or third round of the tournament.

Hussion also presented Senior Madison Yost with a special award for setting a career goal and school record with 103 goals. She’s also a top-ten scorer in state history.

Ellie Garrison, who couldn’t attend the ceremony was the Region Eight AA player of the year.

Next, the UCHS Boys Soccer Team received their awards for reaching the state championships in 2019.

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Yost earned a school and state record with 103 goals.

“You had a core of players returning, a group of very talented freshmen, some move-ins and it kinda created this team that took a little bit of time to gel, but when they did they never looked back. They didn’t lose. It was amazing to see,” Hussion beamed, “They gelled and beat everybody. They went all the way, all the way to state finals.”

UCHS Boys played Thomasville in the final and left it all on the field. UCHS Boys lost during overtime PK kicks and logged over 11,000 miles during the tournament.

“You couldn’t go any further than they could possibly go. It was amazing,” commented Hussion.

One player couldn’t attend was graduating Senior Brian Smith who just began basic training.

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Boys Team lost to Thomasville in State finals.

“He led the way in goal scoring for us this year, and he showed us how to win when we weren’t necessarily sure how it could be done,” said Robbins, “He was a heck of a leader both on the field and off the field. The last two weeks of the season he was voted the United Soccer Coaches Max Prep’s player of the week for the entire state of Georgia.”

Director of Custodial Services Hughes recognized Emma Nichols for donating part of her summer to help clean up the schools.

“She just loves to do this custodial work. She’s just a regular kid, but she loves to do cleaning and housekeeping stuff, and I thought now would be a really good time to recognize her for the hard work that she has done,” said Hughes.

Emma Nichols donates her time to assist custodians in cleaning up the school.

Assistant Superintendent David Murphy commented,” Work-force readiness, soft skills those are the things that we’re hoping to teach, this little lady is doing it on her own, and I want to thank her parents for giving her the opportunity.”

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