Boys soccer team hosts Wasilla in home final
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:38 am
The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears boys soccer team will honor their senior players at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park pitch prior to their 7:30 p.m. game against visiting Wasilla. The JDHS girls soccer team will honor their seniors at 5 p.m. Saturday before their 5:30 p.m. game at ADMP against Wasilla. Both teams also play Wasilla on Friday, with the boys at 5:15 p.m. and girls at 7 p.m.
“For me, one of the great things about being able to coach is you get kids in when they’re young and when they are freshmen and then four years later you’ve had a tremendous amount of time that you spent with them,” JDHS head coach Gary Lehnhart said. “I mean, I can’t even estimate the amount of hours that I spent with some who train close country wise email marketing list to year-round with me and then of course you go through these moments with them in tournaments that are high stress.”
“And for this senior class, they’ve had a really successful run. Three straight state championship appearances, and two they won. And this year, as they moved back to Division I, they’ve surprised me with their performance. So it’s really been a very successful class. Which is a credit to them.”
“And I really enjoyed this year watching the leadership pieces start to come into play. It took a while, but it really started to happen midway through the season, especially when we went through an injury period and lost some really quality players — even though they weren’t seniors they were underclassmen they were talented players — and it was at that point that I saw this group of seniors really kind of step up. They just started acting differently and I think they really took to heart what it meant to have to bring a team together and lead. When you have players doing that and not just coaches it’s just so much better.”
“For me, one of the great things about being able to coach is you get kids in when they’re young and when they are freshmen and then four years later you’ve had a tremendous amount of time that you spent with them,” JDHS head coach Gary Lehnhart said. “I mean, I can’t even estimate the amount of hours that I spent with some who train close country wise email marketing list to year-round with me and then of course you go through these moments with them in tournaments that are high stress.”
“And for this senior class, they’ve had a really successful run. Three straight state championship appearances, and two they won. And this year, as they moved back to Division I, they’ve surprised me with their performance. So it’s really been a very successful class. Which is a credit to them.”
“And I really enjoyed this year watching the leadership pieces start to come into play. It took a while, but it really started to happen midway through the season, especially when we went through an injury period and lost some really quality players — even though they weren’t seniors they were underclassmen they were talented players — and it was at that point that I saw this group of seniors really kind of step up. They just started acting differently and I think they really took to heart what it meant to have to bring a team together and lead. When you have players doing that and not just coaches it’s just so much better.”