SPSL NORTH: AT A GLANCE<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Favorites:<\/b> Kentwood, Auburn Riverside.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Contenders:<\/b> Kentlake, Kent-Meridian.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Look out for:<\/b> Kentridge.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Notable:<\/b> Kentwood enters the season on a 51-match SPSL North winning streak, but graduated standouts Jessie Genger (Gonzaga University), Lauren Campbell (Northern Arizona), Stephanie Shumaker (Lewis & Clark State) and Kate Grajewski (Idaho State). \u2026 Sally Eager, who most recently coached at Renton High, has taken over for Kim Zorn at Tahoma. Zorn, who stepped down at the end of last season, spent five years with the Bears. \u2026 Auburn Riverside\u2019s Brooke Bray is the lone returning first-team all-leaguer in the SPSL North. The league returns just second-team all-leaguers: Cherene O\u2019Hara (Kent-Meridian) and Aryn McCarthy (Kentlake). Kent-Meridian and Kentridge each return a league-high four starters. \u2026 Kentlake has finished second to Kentwood in league play for four straight years. And despite graduating top players Melissa Kozy and Sarah Ralph, the Falcons return enough talent with Aryn McCarthy, Riley Butler and McKenna Herron to once again be a factor. \u2026 Kentlake (3), Auburn Riverside (2) and Kentwood (4) have accounted for the last nine SPSL North titles. \u2026 With Nicole Faircough (libero), Jaclyn Onosko (opposite side), Manisha Walia (middle blocker) and Kelsey Kirkland (outside hitter) all returning, Kentridge has the firepower to challenge the heavyweights. \u2026 Kentridge\u2019s Ashley Nguyen, a first-team all-leaguer last year, is now competing at Highline Community College. Former teammate Marissa Fujimoto is now playing at Bellevue College (formerly Bellevue CC).<\/p>\n
\u2022 Outlook:<\/b> More than any season in the past five years, the SPSL North has a new look this year. Why? Because of the extreme wealth of talent that has graduated. Auburn Riverside and Kentwood were listed as the favorites in the preseason coaches\u2019 poll. The Ravens return the league\u2019s top player in Bray. But until somebody knocks them off, something that hasn\u2019t happened since 2004, the Conquerors are the team to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SPSL NORTH: AT A GLANCE \u2022 Favorites: Kentwood, Auburn Riverside. \u2022 Contenders: Kentlake, Kent-Meridian. \u2022 Look out for: Kentridge. \u2022 Notable: Kentwood enters the season on a 51-match SPSL North winning streak, but graduated standouts Jessie Genger (Gonzaga University), Lauren Campbell (Northern Arizona), Stephanie Shumaker (Lewis & Clark State) and Kate Grajewski (Idaho State). \u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}