So, with the season pretty much over, we’d like to introduce you to the player who is, provisionally, the leader in goals scored this year. That would be senior Sophia Apple, an attacker from Greensboro Northwest Guilford (N.C.). This year, she has amassed 160 goals that made a run in the NCISAA tournament before losing to Matthews Weddington (N.C.), a team that made it all the way to the finals.
For Apple, the key to her success is old-fashioned grit.
“If you’re not committed to the sport as someone like me, they don’t knwo the amount of time and commitment that you put forth in your sport and the amount of sacrifice that you have to make,” she tells The Greensboro News & Record. “I would just tell people that I’ve made a lot of sacrifices to be where I am now, at the level where I am, and I’ve worked very hard for everything I have earned through the sport.”
Apple will matriculate to East Carolina University this coming fall, and is expected to make an impact for this emerging side.
Below are provisional statistics from available published sources, including MaxPreps, Berks Game Day, the KHSAA, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, PhillyLacrosse, and Advance Media. If we can get more teams, state federations, and local leagues to adopt the easy-to-use MaxPreps.com platform, we can aim for as complete a statistical picture of the country as possible.
GOALS SCORED, SEASON
160 Sophia Apple, Greensboro Northwest Guilford (N.C.)
155 Lucy Yu, Oakland Bishop O’Dowd (Calif.)
147 Mady Nolan, Irvine Woodbridge (Calif.)
144 Gianna Frieri, Lockport (Ill.)
138 Scarlett Gilner, Chapel Hill (N.C.)
137 Chloe Harris, Pfafftown Reagan (N.C.)
137 Kathleen Handy, La Grange Park Nazareth Academy (Ill.)
136 Haley Washall, Hopewell Junction Wappinger (N.Y.)
131 Elle Kondranos, Barrington (Ill.)
128 Cambria Rice, York (Pa.) Suburban
127 Miikka Oda, Placentia El Dorado (Calif.)
127 Morgan Hill, South Brunswick (N.C.)
124 Sienna Chirieleison, Camp Hill Trinity (Pa.)
ASSISTS, SEASON
107 Aubrey Martosik, Oletangy Liberty (Ohio)
101 Giada Catanzaro, Bridgewater-Raritan (N.J.)
90 Summer Buechner, Lehi Skyridge (Utah)
82 Victoria Aldana, Santa Barbara San Marcos (Calif.)
82 Mya Holmberg, Huntley (Ill.)
79 Sydney Remmer, Fuquay-Varina (N.C.)
78 Kendall Moses, Dublin Jerome (Ohio)
77 Sara Anné, Salt Lake City Olympus (Utah)
74 Lexie Von Koch, Holly Springs (N.C.)
73 Rocquette Allen, Highland Ridge ThunderRidge (Colo.)
73 Lizzie Anné, Salt Lake City Olympus (Utah)
71 Caelyn Little, Anderson T.L. Hanna (Fla.)
70 Brighde Mullen, West Forsyth (N.C.)
70 Elizabeth Blanchard, Charleston George Washington (W. Va.)
GOALS SCORED, CAREER
532 Sienna Chirieleison, Camp Hill Trinity (Pa.)
516 Vanni Intini, Fayetteville (N.C.) Academy
453 Gianna Frieri, Lockport (Ill.)
411 Zoey Smith, Lacey Township (N.J.)
399 Uma Kowalski, Sparta (N.J.)
382 Morgan Siglin, Greenville Wade Hampton (S.C.)
367 Amaya Monacelli, Covington North Pocono (Pa.)
356 Miikka Oda, Placentia El Dorado (Calif.)
347 Teagan Scott, Mount Pleasant Oceanside Collegiate Academy (S.C.)
347 Campbell Spillett, Glen Ridge (N.J.)
335 Allison Lee, Princeton Stuart Country Day School (N.J.)
329 Mady Nolan, Irvine Woodbridge (Calif.)
ASSISTS, CAREER
258 Katie Powers, Glen Ridge (N.J.)
255 Giada Catanzaro, Bridgewater-Raritan (N.J.)
243 Mya Lourenco, Allentown (N.J.)
205 Vanni Intini, Fayetteville (N.C.) Academy
COMBINED GOALS AND ASSISTS, CAREER
721 Vanni Intini, Fayetteville (N.C.) Academy
637 Sienna Chirieleison, Camp Hill Trinity (Pa.)
598 Gianna Frieri, Lockport (Ill.)
538 Uma Kowalski, Sparta (N.J.)
513 Teagan Scott, Mount Pleasant Oceanside Collegiate Academy (S.C.)
489 Morgan Siglin, Greenville Wade Hampton (S.C.)
487 Julia Swanson, Montville (N.J.)
466 Miikka Oda, Placentia El Dorado (Calif.)
466 Zoey Smith, Lacey Township (N.J.)
456 Katie Powers, Glen Ridge (N.J.)
ACTIVE COACHING VICTORIES
890 Kathy Jenkins
541 Lisa Lindley
490 Chris Robinson
So, if you see something missing, please send an email to us at TopOfTheCircle.com. Attach some evidence (a website will do), and we can make an adjustment.
Thank you all for reading this year; we’ll update and do some more research for the Final Statwatch next month.
