Girls Varsity Soccer Champions - Skyview High School

On Saturday, 11/2, the Skyview High School Girls Soccer Team played the Tahoma Bears in a Sectional State Playoff Game. The Bears brought a record of 5-5-2.

It was a cold and overcast day at the Skyview soccer field. The crowd was small.  

Unfortunately, as usual, the Skyview sound system was very poor.  No banners for each of our players like we saw at Richfield, Union, and Camas. No cheerleaders. No student section of rooters. On the positive side, the bleachers were clean, outdoor toilets nearby, having a Make a Wish fundraising table, modest attendance fees, an orderly and even tempered audience, good referees, and a security and administrative presence. Everyone felt safe.  Younger children were everywhere and smiling. 

The usual group of Skyview soccer parents and their children were in attendance. Our group of Skyview fans and rooters included Alicia and Sean (Makenna Flinn's (#16, Center Defender) parents, Hanna and Matt Flinn, Hanna's visiting sister and her husband, Ryan, Joey, April Garofalo, Grandma Beryl, Grandma Karen, and Grandpa Michael. Everyone had fun!!

Skyview High School Girls Varsity Soccer Team in 2024

A tense and intense game. A stingy defense on both teams. 

The game was tied 0-0 at the end of regulation and 2 overtimes.  A final shootout took place.  Each team was tied after 6 shots. The Tahoma kicker hit the side pole and missed. Then, Cannonball Quinn Lundy, kicked the winning goal in the shootout (penalty kick, one on one, one kicker and one goalie ... high tension).

Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer Team
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Skyview 1 and Tahoma 0

Current Skyview High School Girls Varsity Soccer: Overall Record of  12 - 0 - 3  Conference  5 - 0 - 1

The Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer Team is now ranked 8th in the State of Washington. Information.

Another local high school, Ridgefield, is ranked 10th in the State of Washington. It has a
record of 15-1-1.  Ridgefield and Skyview played to a 2-2 tie early in the season.

The local Columbia newspaper reporter said the standouts for Skyview in the game were: Brynlee Williams, Quinn Lundy, Scottie Crooks, and Makenna Flinn.

NEXT??    Summer High School vs Skyview High School, Girls Varsity Soccer, 7 pm, 11/5/2024, Tuesday, Federal Way Memorial Field. 

Federal Way is City in Kings County and part of the Seattle Metapolitician Area.

Summer High School is ranked 6th in the State of Washington for 4A Division sized large schools.
It has a record of 11-2-3.  Skyview High School is ranked 4th in the Statewide 4A Division.
Information.

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Skyview (HS) High School is located in the area north of Vancouver, Washington.  It is located in the northwest unincorporated suburbs of Vancouver, called Salmon Creek.

Our grand daughter, Makenna Flinn, plays center defender (#16) on the Skyview HS Girls Varsity Soccer Team.  She plays the entire game, every game. She is a Junior. She is an A grade student.

The Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer team went undefeated in 2024.
Overall Record of  11 - 0 - 3  Conference  5 - 0 - 1
The Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer Team won the District Championship of the 4A Greater St. Helens Athletic District in the State of Washington.
The last time Skyview HS  won the GSHAD Championship was in 2014.

The Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer Team fielded a very stingy defense - the best in the league.
The defense recorded eight shoutouts, and gave up only 8 goals all season.
The defense never gave up more than 2 goals in a game.
All players pitched in on defense!
The three main defensive players, who played the entire game every game were:
Brynnlee Williams    Goalie                  Junior
Makenna Flinn          Center Defender  Junior   # 16
Quinn Lundy            Wing Defender     Junior   # 19

The Skyview offense was quite powerful at times, and tallied 57 goals in the season. Only six of the games were close. Some of their wins were by wide margins, e.g., 8-0.  Rotations of mid-fielders and striker forwards were frequent, keeping players fresh, strong, and fast. Standouts on offense included Dea Covarrubias, Mya Ellertson, Bella Town, and Cameron Watson.

This team 2024 team had four seniors on the entire roster.
Many of the team members have played together since elementary school at Chinook Elementary in Salmon Creek on the local league team called "The Nemesis."  Karen and I have attended scores of Nemesis soccer games in the last 7 years.

First year Head Coach was Matt Houghton, and his Assistants were Nello Picinich, Mackenzie Ellertson, and Samantha Schoene.

Overall 2024 Record of  11 - 0 - 3  Conference  5 - 0 - 1
57 Goals Scored by Skyview. Only 8 Goals Scored Against Skyview.

Karen and I attended eight of these Girls Varsity Soccer Games.  We went out to dinner with Makenna's parents (Alicia and Sean) and her other grandmother (Beryl) before three of the games. We got to meet many parents of the girls.  

We visited some of the big stadiums in the area, e.g., Battleground, Richfield, Union, Camas, and the local Kiggins/Boggs Vancouver Field.

They The Skyview HS Girls Varsity Soccer Team will play their first State Tournament Soccer Game on November 2, 2024, at Skyview.

Makenna Flinn and Quinn Lundy
Key Skyview Soccer Defenders

Final Game Photo of Skyview Team
We defeated Union High School, 4-1
October 24, 2024, 9:20 p.m.

Makenna Flinn, Center Defender, #16

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4A Greater St. Helens

#	Team	W-L	GB	OVR
1	Skyview	8-0	-	12-0-2
2	Mountain View	6-4-1	3.0	10-6-1
3	Camas	6-2	2.0	8-5
4	Kelso	5-3	3.0	12-4-1
5	Union	4-3-1	3.5	7-6-2
6	Prairie	3-7	6.0	5-10
7	Battle Ground	2-8	7.0	4-11
8	Evergreen	0-7	7.5	5-8

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Girls Varsity Soccer Champions - Skyview High School

Skyview (HS) High School is located in the area north of Vancouver, Washington.  It is located in the northwest unincorporated suburbs of Vancouver, called Salmon Creek.

Our grand daughter, Makenna Flinn, plays center defender (#16) on the Skyview HS Girls Varsity Soccer Team.  She plays the entire game, every game. She is a Junior. She is an A grade student.

The Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer team went undefeated in 2024.
Overall Record of  11 - 0 - 3  Conference  5 - 0 - 1
The Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer Team won the District Championship of the 4A Greater St. Helens Athletic District in the State of Washington.
The last time Skyview HS  won the GSHAD Championship was in 2014.

The Skyview Girls Varsity Soccer Team fielded a very stingy defense - the best in the league.
The defense recorded eight shoutouts, and gave up only 8 goals all season.
The defense never gave up more than 2 goals in a game.
All players pitched in on defense!
The three main defensive players, who played the entire game every game were:
Brynnlee Williams    Goalie                  Junior
Makenna Flinn          Center Defender  Junior   # 16
Quinn Lundy            Wing Defender     Junior   # 19

The Skyview offense was quite powerful at times, and tallied 57 goals in the season. Only six of the games were close. Some of their wins were by wide margins, e.g., 8-0.  Rotations of mid-fielders and striker forwards were frequent, keeping players fresh, strong, and fast. Standouts on offense included Dea Covarrubias, Mya Ellertson, Bella Town, and Cameron Watson.

This team 2024 team had four seniors on the entire roster.
Many of the team members have played together since elementary school at Chinook Elementary in Salmon Creek on the local league team called "The Nemesis."  Karen and I have attended scores of Nemesis soccer games in the last 7 years.

First year Head Coach was Matt Houghton, and his Assistants were Nello Picinich, Mackenzie Ellertson, and Samantha Schoene.

Overall 2024 Record of  11 - 0 - 3  Conference  5 - 0 - 1
57 Goals Scored by Skyview. Only 8 Goals Scored Against Skyview.

Karen and I attended eight of these Girls Varsity Soccer Games.  We went out to dinner with Makenna's parents (Alicia and Sean) and her other grandmother (Beryl) before three of the games. We got to meet many parents of the girls.  

We visited some of the big stadiums in the area, e.g., Battleground, Richfield, Union, Camas, and the local Kiggins/Boggs Vancouver Field.

They The Skyview HS Girls Varsity Soccer Team will play their first State Tournament Soccer Game on November 2, 2024, at Skyview.

Makenna Flinn and Quinn Lundy
Key Skyview Soccer Defenders

Final Game Photo of Skyview Team
We defeated Union High School, 4-1
October 24, 2024, 9:20 p.m.

Makenna Flinn, Center Defender, #16

Bricks in the Wall

Repost from 2019.

We all need good education that provides us with facts, information, ideas, insight, and wisdom.  We need education that provides us with the skills and methods for learning more and expanding our knowledge and skills base.  We need education grounded in science, reason, and practical insights.  We need education in ethics, right living, respect, and tolerance.  We need to be educated on how to become peaceful, productive, and profound persons.   We need education to help us reach our maximum potential. 

What we don't need is "education" that is indoctrination, learning for slavish service to one particular viewpoint, learning grounded in corrupted views of history, mean spirited, hateful  towards others that don't believe or think our way, that turn us into conforming robots, that make us into another brick in the wall of some antiquated ideology.  "We don't need no thought control!"  

I was sent to Roman Catholic Schools from the 1st to the 12th grade from 1950-1963.  I could tell many unpleasant stories about the "education" that I and others received from the nuns and brothers and priests in these Catholic "schools."  Yes, thanks to their rigorous drilling methods of teaching I learned to read, write, and do mathematics in the elementary grades.  Yes, I learned how to obey, conform, submit, and defer.  Yes, I learned the Catholic version of history, and how all non-believers are destined for hell, that we are all inherently sinful by nature, and how only a human sacrifice (Jesus) could soften the heart of a strict Father God and make the world right again.  Yes, I learned how I was supposed to believe and not question Church authority.  Yes, indeed, I learned about fear and guilt. 

 
However, thanks to reading many good books (i.e., Zen, American Transcendentalists, Taoism, great philosophers, natural sciences, history, etc.) in my local public library during my high school years, and getting a good college education at California State University at Los Angeles, I was able to knock down the ugly Catholic Wall that had been forced upon my mind and spirit in my youth.   I knocked down my own "Berlin Wall" of indoctrination, kicked the bricks of the Dark Ages aside, and was liberated in 1964.  

I learned early that, for me, being a good person, being happy, being productive, being high minded, and being truly "spiritual" had nothing to do with the strange doctrines and ideology of Christianity or Islam.  

So, for me, in some ways, Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" is kind of an anthem for me. 

Another Brick in the Wall

Pink Floyd
1979

"We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave us kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall."