From Coach Kinney :

Offensive Player of the Year:
Baya Austin: 8th Grade

Baya is an incredible athlete! She can confidently play any offensive position on the field. Her growth from the beginning to now has been phenomenal. I’m so proud of her and how brightly she shined for us this year.

Defensive Player of the Year:
Chloe Wright: 8th Grade

Chloe is a rockstar goalie. I think I told her like 20 minutes before practice started one day that I was moving her to the goal, she didn’t question or argue with my decision; she just did it. She executed and guarded the goal well. She is aggressive, a team player, and an amazing human.

Most Improved Player:
Bibiana Rojas: 9th Grade

    Bibiana quickly earned her role as captain with grace and dignity. She was a person I knew I could count on to give 100% effort on and off the field. Bibi was an outstanding at the wing position. I’ll never forget standing on the sidelines shortly after I started helping talking to Adrienne about how athletic she was and how good she was with a soccer ball.

     I thought she had been playing soccer most of her life, turns out, she had only been playing since the fall. We all benefited from her leadership this season.

Overall, we had an awesome season finishing 10-6-2! We are only the 5th team in school history to reach double digit wins!! We also set another school record for shutouts in a season with 9! We were very well represented on the All Three Rivers District teams and the All Region 3D.

    This group of girls will always hold a special place in my heart being my first ever team as a Head Coach!!
We had an amazing group of seniors this season with 7 (Karmen Smith, Harleigh Riggins, Ahliyah Riffey, Laurel Sutphin, Alexis Boatman, Maiya Caudill, and Dalexandra Estra Avila)!!

   These seniors were great leaders and I just want to thank you them for  everything they have done this season and done for the program over the years! We will miss them all so much!!

Honors 🎖 Received :

1st Team All Three Rivers District
– (Forward) Savannah Swecker
           – 9 goals and 1 assist

– (Midfield) Callie Harris
           – 16 goals and 8 assists

– (Defender) Karmen Smith
           – 3 goals and 7 assists


2nd Team All Three Rivers District

– (Goalie) Alexis Sheffey
           – 217 saves on year
           – Averaged 12 saves per game

– (Defender) Harleigh Riggins
            – 1 goals
            – This was Harleigh’s first year playing center back and she stepped right up and did an awesome job for us back there! 

Honorable Mention All Three Rivers District

– (Defender) Laurel Sutphin
             – Was a very important piece of our back line this season!

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Last night we had our end of the year banquet for the 2025 Soccer Season! We had 5 earn team awards on varsity.

Cavalier Award – Ahliyah Riffey
This award goes to a player who is always giving 100% in games no matter the score and in practice. This player is also a great team leader and is always willing to do what is best for the team. Ahliyah finished the season with 2 goals and 3 assists!!

Most Improved Player – Laurel Sutphin
Laurel had never played soccer until her sophomore year of high school. She has grown so much over her 3 years with the varsity team. Her first year she didn’t play a lot but she never gave up and continued to grow. This season she was a very important piece of our back line and one of our captains!! Laurel has awesome work ethic and leadership!!

Best Offensive Player- Callie Harris
This season Callie led the team in goals and assists. She scored 16 goals on the year and had 8 assists! For the first half of the season Callie was 88% of our offense having a hand in 14 out of the 17 goals that were scored in the first 8 games. Overall for the season Callie was 71% of our offense whether it was scoring or setting up a goal for another player. Callie was a very important offensive piece for us this year in the midfield!

Best Defensive Player – Alexis Sheffey
Alexis had a huge season this year with 9 shutouts on the year which is a school record!!! In the 4th game of the season at Glenvar Alexis got hurt but kept playing. She ended up playing with a broken finger for the next 14 games of the season but she didn’t go to the doctor until after season was over because she didn’t want to miss any games. Even with playing with this injury which as a goalie is a big one due to how much she has to use her hands she still put up huge numbers on the year. She had 217 saves on the season and averaged around 12 saves per game.

Most Valuable Player – Karmen Smith

Our MVP for the season was one of our senior captains! Karmen went above and beyond for the team all year. She has been a very solid center back for us all 4 years she has played on Varsity. She has an awesome soccer IQ and reads the game so well. She was also a great leader for our team. Even though Karmen was on the back line she was still one of our top performers offensively. For the season Karmen was a part of 40% of our offense from the center back position. She finished the year with 3 goals and 7 assists!

Other Thoughts :

We scored 34 goals on the year and 26 of those were assisted! 76% of our goals on the year was assisted directly from one of our players feet!

Regional honors 🎖 :

2nd Team All Region 3D

(Goalie) Alexis Sheffey
– First goalie to receive all region honors since 2002!!

(Midfielder) Callie Harris

(Defender) Karmen Smith

The region part that it is huge for this team to get 3 players on all region!! We are in a very stacked and strong region along with a lot of strong Roanoke schools.

Proof coming in the fact that William Byrd finished up in the State Tournament after being a #7 seed and #1 Cave Spring is in the Final Four.

Ladies and Gentlemen – I present to you, your 2024 – 2025 Lady 👩 Cavaliers Soccer ⚽️ team !

Kettle Run picked up a rare road victory by edging Grafton while Spotswood and Abingdon flexed their muscles. William Monroe rounds out the Final Four.

Cave Spring High School 🏫 is the Region Champion and William Byrd is the team that ended the Lady Cavaliers season in the #7 vs #10 game. How tough of a Region is it when the #7 seed advances to the State Tournament???

Class 2 has some familiar names as well

It’s worth noting that the home team won all eight of the matches shown above. Now we can make it 12 of 12 by adding the Class 1

One of the mysterious things about sports at the High School and College level is how much does one follow the sport once their team has been eliminated ? There is no right or wrong answer, its just a fun question.

In my mind, we want our Regional tournament 🏆🏆🏆 to win the State Tournament so it adds credibility to just how tough our region is. But there’s something to be said about the #7 seed making the State Eight.

If you are a fan of Girls Soccer ⚽️, there’s still plenty of reasons why you can still follow along.