Does Your College Women's Soccer Team Need a Very Good Center Defender?

 

Subject: Recruiting: A Noteworthy Center Defender: Makenna Flinn

Makenna Erin Flinn is an excellent Center Defender for the Skyview High School Girl’s Varsity Soccer Team in Vancouver, Washington. 

Makenna Flinn was awarded First Team Soccer Defender in 2024 in the 4A Greater St. Helens District League. Skyview won the St. Helens League title in 2024.

Makenna is a Senior, and she is a straight A student. She plans to study to become a Physician’s Assistant. She is an officer for both the DECA Entrepreneurial Business Club and the Medical Club at Skyview.

She has lettered in three varsity seasons in both soccer and track and field. In soccer, she has played the entire game in every game for two years.

Makenna is tall, fast, strong, smart, quick, and calm. She is a good leader, and a skilled defender. She is a Captain of the Skyview team in 2025.

Information on 2025 Skyview High School Girls Varsity Soccer Team:

As of 10/10/2025, the Skyview record is 8-0-4. In 12 games this year, Skyview has scored 38 goals, given up only 5, and are undefeated. They are currently ranked 3^th in the State of Washington in the 4A Division, and 5^th in the entire State. This is despite losing two key offensive players suffering season ending injuries, and another key defender being injured for many games.

Makenna (#17) has defended extremely well against top forwards from other schools (Chiawana, Somner, Camas, Ridgefield, and Columbia River) who are already having scholarship offers.

Makenna knows how to help, cooperate with, and encourage the other two Defenders and the Goalie. Her passing to mid-fielders and defenders is accurate and fast. She can play tough and aggressively and keeps fouls to a minimum in critical situations. She often steals the ball and can drive it forward skillfully for 15-25 yards when needed. She closely guards the best Forward Striker in every game.

She is also an offensive threat. In the second half of games, when Skyview is ahead in scoring, she sometimes is switched to playing a Forward Striker. She has scored three goals this year: one off a header into the goal, and one off her foot into the goal, on Skyview offensive corner side kicks; and, one direct shot for goal after good passing back and forth with other Forwards. Not many top-notch Center Defenders score goals.

Makenna has a good work ethic and puts in the gym work and conditioning for extra strength and speed. She is intelligent and coachable. She has played for the Salmon Creek Nemesis Club since the 4^th grade, and as a mid-fielder on other Portland teams. She was coached for many years in Nemesis by Coach Tina Frimpong Ellertson; and, now at Skyview for two years by Coach Matt Houghton.

I hope your scouts will watch Makenna Flinn (#17) show her superior defensive prowess in one of Skyview’s upcoming games. The game at Kiggins Stadium in Vancouver on October 21, 2025, will pit Camas against Skyview; and these two teams tied 1-1 on 10/9. Also, I am sure Skyview will be competing in the Washington State Girls Varsity Soccer Finals.

 

For more information and video/film clips of Makenna, please request information from her father: Sean Flinn at Email:  seanflinn12@msn.com

Mike Garofalo

P.S. I have watched Makenna Erin Flinn play for the last seven years.  I am her grandfather. I am supporting her efforts in seeking university studies in medicine and biological science. Obviously, I am also a fan of women’s soccer … go Portland Thorns, go Skyview Storm!!

 

Keyboard Fun Over the Years

I first learned to use a manual typewriter in 1960.  I think it was a Hermes 3000, purchased by my parents.  I became keyboard proficient and could type up to 55 words a minute with a high degree of accuracy by 1961.  I used a portable manual typewriter, office typewriter, or electric typewriter in high school, college, and at my part-time City of Commerce Library job from 1961-69.  





In 1970, I volunteered for and was assigned to work as a Personnel Specialist at the Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.  I coded IBM cards with personnel information.  In 1971, I was working at Keesler in Officer Personnel Information Services and using a Burroughs online computer system and a computer keyboard (no mouse).  I was honorably discharged from the U. S. Air Force in 1973 with the rank of E5.  

Keesler was part of Air Training Command, and trained upwards 15,000 Air Force personnel each month primarily in electronics used by the U.S. Air Force.  I met with officers and enlisted men on their personnel business, and helped them with processing in and out of Keesler for temporary duty training.  At that time, 1970-1973, the U.S. Air Force was extremely busy in the destructive Vietnam War.  


From 1973 until 2017 I was employed where some kind of computer keyboard or electric typewriter was at my workstation, office, or at nearby locations.  I was employed as a librarian, supervisor, manager, coordinator, adminstrator, writer, technology and media services supervisor, teacher ... with my fingers on dozens of keyboards over the decades.  

The keyboard and mouse have been my interaction with computer software.  I still have a great computer set up at home in 2020.   

So, a keyboard under my fingers controlling computer software or mechanical typewriters has been an essential part of my educational life, scholarly life, librarianship life, community service life, employment life, professional life, creative life, or daily life from 1960-2020.  The skillfull, speedy, and effective use of keyboards and mice controlling computer software is critical and essential to succes in business in 2020.  

In 2020, I now use a Logitech MK 710 wireless keyboard and mouse in my home office connected to a Dell Inspiron desktop computer running Windows 10.  

  




Some of my webpage reading Keyboard Shortcut Favorites are:

Ctrl + F    Search the document to Find something

Ctrl + +   Increases the size of the font displayed on the screen for html documents

Ctrl + -    Decreases the size of the font displayed on the screen for html documents

Ctrl + P    Prints the document displaying on the screen

Windows Symbol + E   Opens the File Manager Explorer