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Gatorade
Player of the Year
2009 All-State
2009
PrepXtra Soccer Coach of the Year
2009 PrepXtra
Player of the Year
Dennis selected as the Tennessee Gatorade Player
of the Year
 Sooz
Dennis was selected as the Tennessee Gatorade Player of the Year for Girls
Soccer. She is a member of the Brentwood Real Madrid and the 2007 Tennessee
State Championship BGA Soccer Team, where she was also named the Midstate
Player of the Year.
Also, Sooz was invited to go to Europe
with the Region III ODP team after attending National Camp in January. She
will head over to Europe with the rest of the team to play Arsenal and other
European clubs in late March, early April. She has committed to play for
the University of Georgia in 2009.
PrepXtra Player of the Year
Amy Porter followed her dream and it led to a soccer scholarship at LSU.
Porter, a senior at Bearden High School and the News Sentinel's PrepXtra
soccer player of the year, went to a camp at LSU this past summer and
impressed Tigers coach Brian Lee so much that he offered her a scholarship.
"LSU was the only big school I went for," Porter said. "It was my dream
school."
Lee had been unable to see Porter play, so Porter took matters into her own
hands: she signed up for the LSU summer camp and went to Baton Rouge, La.,
to showcase her talents. She also was interested in Carson-Newman and
Winthrop.
"I was almost committed to other schools," she said. "LSU just happened."
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PrepXtra Soccer Coach of the Year
Christian Academy of Knoxville coach Nathan Pifer knew he had the makings
for a state-championship soccer team this fall.
All he had to do was coach it, and that's what he did.
Pifer, the News Sentinel's PrepXtra soccer coach of the year, led the Lady
Warriors to the 2008 Class A/AA state title, his second in three seasons as
CAK's girls coach.
"Our defense was strong with experience and we had a deep bench," Pifer
said. "It was really a team with the whole gamut. We were strong at every
position and we could sub in and we wouldn't change. It was really a coach's
dream team."
CAK (23-2-1) was unbeaten against Class A/AA opponents with losses against
Class AAA Bearden and West, and a tie against Houston.
CAK's defense was comprised of seniors Melynne Denton, Callie Jernigan,
Stephanie Pearson, and Justine Belk, all starting for the third consecutive
year, while junior Alyssa Hammaker moved to goalkeeper for the first time.
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