2 months ago
WATERFORD - Just days into the high school sports preseason, Waterford-Halfmoon soccer standout Payton Galuski made a surprising announcement Wednesday to her boys' soccer teammates.
The Penn State women's soccer commit, who played for her school's boys' team the past two seasons, won't play high school soccer this fall. Instead, she will spend her junior year focusing on competing with her FC Stars girls' club team as she continues to prepare for the next level.
"It's just an opportunity for me to continue to grow," Galuski said.
Galuski, who committed to Penn State in July, said Wednesday she made the decision recently after the opportunity arose to join a fall FC Stars team, a New England soccer club in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) made up of players not competing for their high school programs.
The move ends, at least for now, one of the more interesting high school soccer careers in Section 2. Galuski won back-to-back state championships with the Waterford-Halfmoon girls as a seventh and eighth grader. She then moved to the boys' team as a freshman and, last season as a sophomore, she recorded 19 goals and 18 ******* ists, earned Wasaren League Offensive MVP honors and became the first girl to earn boys' soccer all-state recognition.
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The Penn State women's soccer commit, who played for her school's boys' team the past two seasons, won't play high school soccer this fall. Instead, she will spend her junior year focusing on competing with her FC Stars girls' club team as she continues to prepare for the next level.
"It's just an opportunity for me to continue to grow," Galuski said.
Galuski, who committed to Penn State in July, said Wednesday she made the decision recently after the opportunity arose to join a fall FC Stars team, a New England soccer club in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) made up of players not competing for their high school programs.
The move ends, at least for now, one of the more interesting high school soccer careers in Section 2. Galuski won back-to-back state championships with the Waterford-Halfmoon girls as a seventh and eighth grader. She then moved to the boys' team as a freshman and, last season as a sophomore, she recorded 19 goals and 18 ******* ists, earned Wasaren League Offensive MVP honors and became the first girl to earn boys' soccer all-state recognition.
#galuski #boys #team #halfmoon
