Sophomore McKinley Hacker is a region leader in girls' soccer. Photo by Raquel Hendrickson

Arizona high school soccer rankings were announced today, and the Maricopa High School girls’ varsity team is No. 5 in 5A.

The Rams trail only Campo Verde, Millennium, Casteel and Cienega in the rankings unveiled by the Arizona Interscholastic Association. Campo Verde and Casteel are in the San Tan Region with Maricopa. None of those teams have yet competed against each other.

Maricopa is 6-1-1 overall and 5-0 in regular season play.

“We are hoping to continue that into region play where 3-4 of the teams are usually top 15 in the state,” head coach Cortney Kellenaers said in an email.

The girls are next at home Jan. 24 against Goldwater. Then Maricopa boys’ and girls’ teams will host Campo Verde Jan. 28 in a game supporting pediatric cancer research in Arizona.

“Both Campo Verde and MHS players will be wearing gold shoe laces in support with the profits of the purchase of shoe laces going to the Go4theGoal foundation,” Kellenaers said. “In addition, we are inviting out the local boys’ club players.”

 

Raquel Hendrickson
Raquel Hendrickson
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Raquel, a.k.a. Rocky, is a sixth-generation Arizonan who spent her formative years in the Missouri Ozarks. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has been in the newspaper business since 1990. She has been a sports editor, general-assignment reporter, business editor, arts & entertainment editor, education reporter, government reporter and managing editor. After 16 years in the Verde Valley-Sedona, she moved to Maricopa in 2014. She loves the outdoors, the arts, great books and all kinds of animals.
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