Dear Methacton Families and Community,

We'd like to highlight the achievements of the 2022-2023 girls soccer program. The 22-23 squad received national recognition this past week by the United Soccer Coaches Association by being awarded the High School Team Academic Award for the 2022-23 school year with a Team GPA of 3.96! This was the highest Team GPA in the Pioneer Athletic Conference, and one of the highest in the state last season. This is also the 4th time the team has received this award.

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/2022-23-high-school-team-academic-award-winners-announced/

Go Warriors!

Sincerely,

John M. Smink

Director of Athletics and Activities

Methacton HS Athletics is currently seeking coaches for the following openings:

Winter:

-Indoor Track (Girls/Boys) Assistant Coach (HS)

-Diving (Girls/Boys) Head Coach (HS)

Spring:

-Boys Track & Field Assistant Coach (HS)

-Girls Track & Field Head Coach (HS)

If you or someone you know is interested, please send us an email with your letter of interest and resume. Please list the position you are interested in, in the subject line of your email.

All email inquires can be sent to: glegendre@methacton.org

Back to school made for a busy week for the cheerleaders! They kicked off the week with a stunt session to build their skills and improve technique all around. This week, we switched to Thursday Night Lights with a great crowd and perfect weather. While the game didn't go quite the way we hoped it would, the cheer team never gave up on the Warriors, who fought until the end. The team is looking forward to the first away game of the season this week at Radnor HS and continuing to work hard to prepare.

Upcoming Events:

-Friday 9/8 - Game vs. Radnor HS (AWAY)

On Saturday the Methacton Boy's cross-country team placed 2nd at the Lansdale invitational. They were led by junior Charlie Reith who placed first for the team running his personal best of 16:39 for a 5k race. He was followed by senior Matthew Sandner and Freshman Brock Yoder who also ran a PR of 16:52. Charlie, Matt and Brock came in 4th , 5th and 6th in the race against an excellent North Penn XC team. The team will be competing at the Abington Invitational on Saturday.

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Meet vs. Norristown (HOME)

-Saturday 9/9 - Abington Invitational (AWAY)

The Girls X-C Team finished the 1st week of after school practices with the Lansdale Invitational on Friday, Sept 1st. The Team competed against Mount St. Joseph, North Penn & Upper Dublin.

The Team finished 0-3 but was encouraged by the 2nd place finish (overall) of Sr Molly Thomas, the 13th place finish of Jr Juliana Trigone and the 16th place finish of Soph Sasha Benowitz. There were 63 Runners at this race.

Rounding out the Varsity 7 was Fr Ashley Hermus, Soph Melina Karagiannopoulos, Soph Emily Reich & Jr Maggie Mead.

Next up will be the 1st PAC Meet scheduled for Wednesday, Sept 6th at Heebner Park vs Norristown and then the Team heads the Abington Invitational set for Saturday, Sept 9th.

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Meet vs. Norristown (HOME)

-Saturday 9/9 - Abington Invitational (AWAY)

This week the team officially opened the season with their first two non-league competitions. On Monday the team faced Downingtown East in their home opener. After a fast-paced and competitive game, varsity took a victory winning 5-1. JV ended with a 0-0 draw. Thursday the team continued with non-league play and traveled to Souderton Area High school. JV played a hard fought game on the grass, but the contest ended with a 2-0 loss. After making some adjustments from Monday's game, varsity finished the week 2-0.

This week the team looks forward to starting league play. They will face the Perkiomen Valley Vikings on Wednesday. Then on Friday, the team takes on Norristown at home at 4:00 pm. Come on out to Warrior Stadium to support the team!

Players of the Practice this week:

Olivia Feliciani (sophomore) - Olivia really took the feedback she was given and tried to implement it immediately. The coaches have seen a lot of improvements in Olivia's effort and skill level so far this season, and she has even started to step up as a leader on the team.

Lily DeWan (senior) - Not only did Lily keep the tempo and intensity up throughout our early morning practice, but she consistently communicated with her teammates and provided feedback to the entire team to help boost each drill.

Please help support our team and their Play4theCure game to support the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

Below is the link to the order form for our 10th Anniversary Play4theCure shirts. There will be a limited amount for sale at the game. We are asking everyone to pre-order them. The last day to pre-order is 9/8/2023. Let’s make it a total PINK-OUT! All shirts must be paid for in advance. Thank you to those who have already purchased your shirt!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScax6rahtrU5YKPi9JtmQbMTVDeLTJtniVPO2U9sjEI_4iWDw/viewform

The last link is for the Play4theCure website to get donations. If everyone could please share it on your social media and invite family and friends, we would greatly appreciate it! We raised over $6000 last year and because it is our 10th Anniversary we would like to exceed it this year!

https://p4tc2023.raisely.com/t/methactonfieldhockey

Thank you!

Methacton Field Hockey

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Game vs. Perkiomen Valley (HOME)

-Friday 9/8 - Game vs. Norristown (HOME)

Friday September 1st Methacton hosted PW in a non league contest. Unfortunately our Warriors were unable to get any momentum in the game and suffered a 35-0 set back. Friday September 8th the Warriors will travel to Radnor HS to play their first away game of the young season and look to bounce back.

The Warriors are led by seniors DJ Ballinger, Collin ONeill, Anthony Perillo, Vinny Iccavino, Niko Lumbrano, Chad Cummings, Ben Grove, Nick Sorgini, Levi Borkowski, Wesley Conover, Liam Chawaga, Mia Pettine, Jared Hall-Sanford, and Abel Robles.

Upcoming Events:

-Friday 9/8 - Game vs. Radnor (AWAY)

The Methacton Boys Golf Team suffered two losses last week.

On Tuesday Methacton hosted PJP in a league match at Skippack Golf Club. The Warriors suffered a 207-203 loss. Low scorers for Methacton were Brody Hyduck and Matt Rieger with 40's and Aiden Shireman with a 41.

On Thursday Methacton traveled to OJR and suffered another close loss by a score of 204-203. Leading the Warriors were Matt Rieger with a 37 and Christian Kay and Brody Hyduck with 40's.

Methacton plays at Norristown on Wednesday and home against rival Spring-Ford on Thursday

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Match vs. Norristown (AWAY)

-Thursday 9/7 - Match vs. SpringFord (HOME)

Upcoming Events:

-Tuesday 9/5 - Match vs. Hatboro-Horsham (HOME)

-Friday 9/8 - Match vs. Perkiomen Valley (HOME)

The Boys soccer team has gotten off to a slow start this year, losing all three home night games last week and dragging their record to 0-4 overall.

Each game had bright spots but right now they just can't seem to put a full game together.

The week started with an 0-3 loss Monday night to Lansdale Catholic. There were strong contributions from players coming off the bench and after surviving the early flurry the boys played the second half even. Man of the Match for this game was Kristian Bauer for his strong stabilizing effort off the bench.

Wednesday night was a 1-3 loss to a solid Exeter team. The game was much closer than the final score suggests but some difficulties in front of the net led to the larger than should have been deficit. Man of the Match honors go to Cole Kleger for scoring the team's first goal of the season on a PK that he worked hard for.

Friday brought the end of the week and hopefully the end of the losing skid with the 1-2 loss to PV in the team's first league match. This game was a battle back and forth with the play of our Warriors being much improved. After allowing an early PK goal, the squad knotted the match on a goal from Dishawn Shakes from a cross into the box from Cole Larcinese. One critical mistake late however allowed PV to tally the winning goal and dropping the match for the Warriors. Man of the Match honors go to Owen Rovinsky for shutting down PV's vaunted striker for the bulk of the game.

The boys worked hard over the holiday weekend and are hoping to bring home their first win of the season with two games this week.

The JV boys went 2-1-0 on the week and raised their overall record to 2-1-1 and continue to improve up and down the roster. There is starting to be some real strength there.

Go Warriors!

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Norristown (HOME)

-Friday 9/8 - Pope John Paul (AWAY)

The girls soccer team had a tough week with a difficult early season schedule, losing to top ranked Garnet Valley, and a close 2-1 loss to rival Perkiomen Valley. The Warriors were down 2-0 but got a goal from senior Aubrey Beaugard to cut the deficit to 1, but ran out of time to find the equalizer.

The girls will look to get back on track with games this week against Norristown on Wednesday, and a home “Friday Night Lights” game against PJP, with the JV game starting at 5 and Varsity at 7. This is also “FC Montco” night, with youth players from the local soccer club being encouraged to show up and support.

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Game vs. Norristown (AWAY)

-Friday 9/8 - Game vs. Pope John Paul HS (HOME)

This past week the girls got both a non league and league match in. Our second non league match of the season was at Wissahickon where we had quite a few competitive matches but 5 of them didn’t go in the Warriors favor with a 2-5 final result loss. The team turned it around on Thursday and won 5–2 in their second league match of the season against Phoenixville making them 2-0 so far this season in the PAC.

This upcoming week we are hoping to keep the PAC winning streak going as the girls will compete against Perk Valley and Owen J Roberts both at home.

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Match vs. Perkiomen Valley (HOME)

-Friday 9/8 - Match vs. OJR (HOME)

Last week saw the Warriors defeat Phoenixville in their first match of the season. The Warriors had a balanced attack with 5 hitters with at least four kills. This week we will face Perk Valley and Norristown, both at home on Wednesday and Friday respectively.

Upcoming Events:

-Wednesday 9/6 - Game vs. Perkiomen Valley (HOME)

-Friday 9/8 - Game vs. Norristown (HOME)