C-Falls has three, Polson, Whitefish two all-State
Three members of the Columbia Falls girls soccer team, which finished second to Laurel in postseason play, have been named to the Class A all-state and all-conference teams from the Northern Division.
They are: juniors Tavia Bechtel, Lexi Strouse and Sidney Grilley.
Also named all-state/all-conference were: Whitefish’s Grace Kurtz, a senior, and Haley Nicholson, a sophomore, and Polson’s Sarah Howell, a senior, and Olivia Hewston, a sophomore.
The Whitefish boys had three players selected all-state/all-conference — seniors Taven Edland, Shanoah Montano and Jared Johnson.
Bigfork seniors Kyle Thomson and Keegan Driver were named all-state/all-conference along with Libby sophomore Cody Wood and Polson senior Alex Helgeson.
Northern A Soccer
GIRLS
All-state team
Tavia Bechtel, jr., Columbia Falls; Lexi Strouse, jr., Columbia Falls; Sidney Grilley, jr., Columbia Falls; Sarah Howell, sr., Polson; Olivia Hewston, so., Polson; Grace Kurtz, sr., Whitefish; Haley Nicholson, so., Whitefish.
All-conference team
Celeste Rehbein, so., Bigfork; Megan Pancoast, sr., Bigfork; Katie Hawes, jr., Columbia Falls; Katie Price, jr., Columbia Falls; Ellie Johnson, jr., Columbia Falls; Kendra King, so., Columbia Falls; Shannon Reny, fr., Libby; Linnea Madsen, sr., Polson; Keely Clairmont, sr., Polson; Tiara Duford, so., Polson; Jess Baldonado, sr., Whitefish; Katie Blankenship, so., Whitefish; Julia Houston, so., Whitefish; Melissa Pollard, so., Whitefish; Lexie Carbo, fr., Whitefish.
BOYS
All-state team
Kyle Thomson, sr., Bigfork; Keegan Driver, sr., Bigfork; Cody Wood, so., Libby; Alex Helgeson, sr., Polson; Taven Edland, sr., Whitefish; Shanoah Montano, sr., Whitefish; Jared Johnson, sr., Whitefish.
All-conference team
Tyler Zavala, sr., Bigfork; Isaac Passwater, sr., Bigfork; Breydon Levinsky, sr., Columbia Falls; Daniel Skinner, jr., Columbia Falls; Collin Johnson, sr., Libby; Zander Peterson, jr., Libby; Isaiah Sickler, jr., Libby; Giovanni Cano, so., Libby; Colin Maloney, so., Libby; Spencer Raymond, sr., Polson; Jaben Wenzel, jr., Polson; Mike Mercer, so., Polson; Walter Sobba, jr., Whitefish; Scott Marsh, sr., Whitefish; Casey Ling, jr., Whitefish.