Polk County High School soccer coaches announced two offensive players of the year for the women’s team. Shown here are, from left, assistant coach Will Pack, co-offensive player of the year Sammie Firby, head coach Lennox Charles, and co-defensive player of the year Ellese Cash. Firby led the team with 16 goals, while Cash scored 13 goals, and led the Wolverines in assists with eight. Charles labeled Firby “a perfect example for anybody who wants to be on the field.” Cash, said Charles, ‘was consistently our most dangerous player all year long.” At season’s end, Cash and Firby were tied in total points

Faced with a difficult choice of whom to name as defensive player of the year, Polk County High School soccer coaches agreed that both Kayla McEntire (second from left) and Jamie Green, right, both earned the honor. They’re shown with assistant coach Will Pack, left, and head coach Lennox Charles, third from left). Though tough on defense, McEntire also scored four goals and added an assist during the 2014 campaign, making what Charles called “a huge contribution.” Greene, said Charles, was “a leader in more ways than one.”

When it came to selecting their top player of the year, Polk’s soccer coaches included two stars from this spring’s women’s team, Lyric Flood, second from left, and goalkeeper Kara Overholt, right. They’re shown with assistant coach Will Pack, left, and head coach Lennox Charles, third from left. Charles noted that Flood, who is on the way to college on a soccer scholarship, came in here, and started leading from day one. She “does a little bit of everything, and really has a presence in there.” Overholt, who’d never played goalkeeper before this season, was a quick study, recording nine shutouts, and 135 saves, also managing to score one goal herself, and contributing an assist.

Five Wolverines soccer players were named to this spring’s All Western Highlands Conference soccer team. They are, from left, Kayla McEntire, Ellese Cash, Lyric Flood, Samantha (Sammie) Firby and Jamie Green. In the back are assistant coach Will Pack, left, and head coach Lennox Charles, right. (photos by Mark Schmerling)

Four Polk County High School players were named by the North Carolina Soccer Coaches’ Assn. to the All Region II team following the spring season. Shown with assistant Wolverines’ coach Will Pack, left, and head coach Lennox Charles, right,, are, from left. Kayla McEntire, Ellese Cash and Lyric Flood. Megan Clements was not present at the awards ceremony. Coach Charles is holding her award.

Right: Polk’s head soccer coach, Lennox Charles is justifiably proud of being named Western Highlands Conference soccer Coach of the Year, following a very successful spring season, in which the Wolverines were 19-6-1 overall, with two wins in the state tournament.