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Athlete of the Year
Fast start propels
NT’s Kalis to award
Michael Wojtychiw
Sports Editor
New Trier is known for
having success in many
sports, with many of the
school’s athletes winning
various awards.
The Trevians added
yet another local award
as girls basketball player
Kristie Kalis won the sixth
annual 22nd Century Media
Athlete of the Year
contest, racking up 2,428
votes to defeat fellow New
Trier athlete Eden Rane, a
coxswain on the Trevians
crew team, who tallied
1,415 votes. The contest,
which ended Thursday,
Feb. 9, included athletes
from six schools in the
22CM coverage area and
14 sports, ranging from
basketball to soccer to water
polo.
Kalis, who finished fifth
in last year’s Athlete of the
Year voting, led the competition
from day one.
“It’s a good feeling because
it shows people
care,” Kalis said.
“You don’t really realize
it while you’re playing,
but after you get the recognition,
you realize ‘Wow,
people do watch New Trier
girls basketball and know
who I am,’ stuff like that.”
Glenbrook North boys
soccer player Seth Grossman
finished third with
864 votes, Loyola track/
cross country’s Kathryn
House took fourth with
748 and Bridget McConnell
took fifth with 429.
The other nominees included
Ryan Gattari (Lake
Forest hockey), Jake Mandel
(Highland Park baseball),
Sam Iida (Glenbrook
New Trier’s Kristie Kalis
is the winner VARSITY of the VIEWS
22CM Athlete of the Year
contest. Varsity Views
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South boys swimming and
diving), Claire Sullivan
(Loyola girls gymnastics),
Tom Condon (Lake Forest
boys water polo), Kiley
Sullivan (Glenbrook North
girls soccer), David Adelstein
(Highland Park baseball),
Caroline Witkowski
(Loyola girls tennis), Nicole
Urbanowicz (New
Trier girls volleyball),
Olivia Peters (Glenbrook
South girls soccer), Kelly
Maday (New Trier girls
soccer) and Chris Canning
(Loyola boys diving).
Kalis joins past winners
Olivia Van Zelst, Loyola
girls volleyball (2015);
Jeannie Boehm, New Trier
girls basketball (2014);
Kara Lucenti, New Trier
girls swimming (2013);
Kerry Scafidi, New Trier
gymnastics (2012) and
Bo Murray, Loyola Academy
hockey and baseball
(2012).
For her victory, Kalis
will receive a prize package
including a personalized
sweatshirt.
Girls Soccer
Trevians girls soccer has impressive signing day
Michael Wojtychiw
Sports Editor
FC United Soccer Club,
a competitive youth soccer
program for players 4-18
years old and located in
Northfield, held a ceremony
to honor its 25 studentathletes
that made their
college commitments final
by signing their National
Letters of Intent Feb. 1 in
Glenview.
FC United boasts many
North Shore athletes from
schools such as New Trier,
Loyola, Glenbrook South,
Lake Forest, Highland
Park and Glenbrook North.
Recent FC United alumni
include Kelly Maday, last
year’s Illinois Gatorade
Player of the Year, Olivia
Peters, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference
Freshman of the
Year and Maggie Washelesky,
who was named
to the National Soccer
Coaches Association of
America All-Region Second
Team after her sophomore
year at Carthage.
This year’s signing day
included 11 girls and 14
boys. Eleven of the 25 are
from 22nd Century Media
coverage areas, including
Hannah Arment, Hope
Baisley, Avery Schuldt and
Samantha Urban, all of
whom played key roles for
New Trier’s state championship
team last season.
After seeing Maday
(Illinois), Bina Saipi
(DePaul), Katie Sedara
(University of Chicago),
Flower Eddington (Illinois
Wesleyan) and Dani
Kaufman (Bucknell) sign
last year, the Trevians had
an additional five sign for
the upcoming year.
Hannah Arment signed
with St. Lawrence University,
a Division III school
in New York. Last year,
Eleven members of the FC United soccer club signed
letters of intent Feb. 1 in Glenview, including New
Trier’s Hannah Arment (St. Lawrence), Samantha Urban
(Wisconsin), Avery Schuldt (Dartmouth) and Hope
Baisley (Fordham). Michael Wojtychiw/22nd Century
Media
the Saints finished 9-4-4,
but had made the NCAA
Tournament the previous
season.
“I wanted to play DIII
soccer so I could have
a balance of soccer and
school and be on the East
Coast at a liberal arts
school and St. Lawrence
was the perfect fit,” Arment
said.
Baisley signed her letter
of intent to play for Fordham
University, a Division
I school in New York
and a part of the Atlantic
10 Conference. The Rams
lose eight players from last
year’s squad that finished
10-5-5 and are still looking
for their first-ever invite to
the NCAA Tournament.
“Fordham for me was
a huge family school so
when I visited two summers
ago and I loved the
campus, I kept pursuing
the school and the coach
and it eventually worked
out,” Baisley said. “I think
I’m going to be a center
midfielder, be aggressive,
play fast and distribute the
ball.”
Schuldt made the decision
to head off to the
Ivy League, where she
will play for Dartmouth
starting this fall. Last season,
Schuldt was named
to girls soccer Team 22.
The Big Green last made
the NCAA Tournament in
2005 and are looking to
improve on last season’s
7-7-2 record. Schuldt is
the only forward in Dartmouth’s
signing class of
seven players.
“I knew I wanted to play
Division I but I wanted
a really good academic
school as well as a soccer
school and I thought Dartmouth
combined the two
really well,” Schuldt said.
“It gives me the best options
I can have in college,
like I can go abroad, which
is something that was really
important to me.”
Urban decided to stay
closer to home, signing
with the University of
Wisconsin of the Big Ten
Conference. The Badgers
are coming off of a second
round NCAA Tournament
appearance and boasted
the top pick in this year’s
National Women’s Soccer
League draft — midfielder
Rose Lavelle. Like Schuldt,
Urban was a Team 22
selection, one of four first
team selections.
“I always wanted to go
somewhere big, somewhere
that’s big on sports
because I always thought
that was fun, growing
up and going to Big Ten
games but also wanted to
stay close to home, where
it’s easy for my parents to
come up for games,” Urban
said. “Once I visited I
fell in love with the school
and the coaches and every
school I visited after
that I compared it back to
Wisconsin and didn’t find
anything better than that.”
With Urban off to Wisconsin,
a matchup with
former teammate Maday is
inevitable, especially since
Urban is a defender who
will be trying to stop Maday
from scoring.
“It’s going to be hard
because I’m a forward and
she’s a defender,” Urban
said. “It’s going to be different
because playing
her in practice is different
than in a game and probably
once I step on the
field I’ll act like she’s an
enemy. I know the Big Ten
is a tough conference and
they’re a big rival so it’ll
be a hard matchup.”
Also signing was Natalie
Laser, who is headed to
the University of Southern
California. The Trojans
won the program’s second
national title this season,
finishing 19-4-2. USC became
the first Pac-12 program
to win two NCAA
women’s soccer titles and
had five players drafted in
this year’s NWSL draft.
The Trevians begin their
quest for a fourth consecutive
state title March 14 at
home against Lake Zurich.