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SOCCER
HALEY NICHOLSON
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SCHOOL: White sh CLASS: Junior
POSITION: Forward in soccer / Kicker in football //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
It’s hard to imagine a more productive season than the one Haley had this fall. On the soccer pitch, she scored
31 goals — the most in Montana —
and guided White sh to the state semi nals. She also kicked eld goals for the Bulldog football team, making four of ve including a 33-yarder. In the state championship football game, she hit a pivotal 22-yard eld goal and made both extra points as White sh held o Dillon 17-13 to win the program’s rst championship since 1979. “I was a little nervous because the ground was frozen and incredibly hard. It was hard to plant my feet,” she says. Haley made 45 of 49 extra points this season and scored the fth most points in the Northwestern A conference. She gets to rest during winter but then will be back on the soccer pitch playing and preparing for another busy senior year.
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