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160 players, parents, relatives and friends attended the recent season-ending banquet and awards ceremony at the Sunrise River School cafeteria for the Viking girls' high school soccer program.

The highlight of the season for the Vikings, seeded 13th in the section playoffs, was their first round upset of fourth-seeded Grand Rapids. The Vikings showed clear improvement in their program this season. Last year's team allowed 56 more goals than they scored. This year's version of the Vikings closed the scoring gap to 32 goals.

"In addition to our improvement on the field," said Viking head coach Peter Grand, "the girls showed their exemplary commitment and attitude with an anti-drug pledge called "Cool & Clean." They also stood out academically with a 3.48 team GPA, and were runner-up in the North Suburban Conference. These are achievements that I consider to be of enormous importance."

The coaches presented the following awards:

TEAM AWARDS

Rookie of the Year:

Sadie Kolke

Most Improved:

Alyssa Donohue

Most Valuable Player

Kristen Robatcek

Defensive MVP

Brittany Vilaysack

Offensive MVP

Kasandra Kiester

Coach Award

Kristen Kaminski

Fairplay Award

Rebecca Collins

Excellent Attitude Award

Alina Amunrud

Laura Backus Fan of the Year Award

Tony Dahlberg, Marty Savage

CONFERENCE AWARDS

All-Conference

Kristen Robatcek

All-Conference Honorable Mention

Kristen Kaminski

Rikki Beaver

Academic All-Conference

Kristen Kaminski

Raechelle Lord

Renell Masloski

Jessica Morgan

Cassie Saunders

Nicole Stark

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