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Oswego’s Jordyn Washington is the Record Newspapers girls soccer Player of the Year · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego's Jordan Washington is the Record Newspapers Girls Soccer Player
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  Speaker 1: of the Year. Written by Joshua Well, this article is
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Washington is best known in soccer for a powerful
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  Speaker 1: leg that makes her a scoring threat from anywhere on
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  Speaker 1: the field. It helped make Oswego history this spring behind
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  Speaker 1: its dynamic senior striker. Oswego started its season twelve zero,
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  Speaker 1: matched a program record set last year with nineteen wins,
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  Speaker 1: and won its second consecutive Southwest Prairie Conference championship. And
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  Speaker 1: to top it all off, the Panthers beat Nukua Valley
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  Speaker 1: two to one to win the program's first regional championship,
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  Speaker 1: Washington scoring both goals in the triumph. It's remarkable, Washington said,
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  Speaker 1: but's also a long time coming. What a run for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Washington scored seven goals for the season, giving her seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven for her career over three seasons. She was named
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  Speaker 1: All State and All Conference, as well as Oswego's Offensive MVP,
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  Speaker 1: and for the second consecutive season, she is the Record
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  Speaker 1: Newspapers Player of the Year. Ever since my sophomore year,
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  Speaker 1: we built a foundation, improved this, improved that. Winning that
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  Speaker 1: regional final, it showed me, look what we have done,
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  Speaker 1: Washington said. It's remarkable what we have accomplished in a
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  Speaker 1: short time. Washington, too, who had a delayed start to
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  Speaker 1: her high school career. She blew out her knee before
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  Speaker 1: her freshman year, suffering a torn ACL, MCL, meniscus, and LCL,
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  Speaker 1: and missed her entire freshman season. Washington made a smashing
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  Speaker 1: debut as a sophomore in her return from injury, scoring
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  Speaker 1: twenty three goals. She kept aiming higher. I had a
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  Speaker 1: higher goal this year, she said. I wanted to score
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  Speaker 1: at least twice a game. Had a few small injuries
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  Speaker 1: where I had to be out a few games, but
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  Speaker 1: other than that it went great. Beating the ranked teams
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  Speaker 1: was big. We played Wabbinsee Valley twice and beat them.
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  Speaker 1: Washington's ability to deliver high velocity goals from long range
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  Speaker 1: speaks to natural athletic ability and hard work. She has
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  Speaker 1: the frame befitting a basketball power forward and did try
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  Speaker 1: basketball as a child before settling on soccer. Her dad
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  Speaker 1: played Division I college football, her mom division I basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Washington showcased power behind her shot in Oswego's second win
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  Speaker 1: over Wabanzi Valley, when she dribbled right of the goal
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  Speaker 1: with a defender on her hip and blasted a score
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  Speaker 1: back into the far left corner of the goal. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly where I got that powerful shot, Washington said.
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  Speaker 1: I think it came in part from weightlifting. It has
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  Speaker 1: come over time. When I was younger, I did not
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  Speaker 1: have that powerful of a shot. I've seen the growth.
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  Speaker 1: It has certainly been useful for Washington against defenses that
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  Speaker 1: collapse on her and mark her with double teams. If
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  Speaker 1: they give me two seconds of space, I can put
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  Speaker 1: it in. Washington said. It helps out that I do
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  Speaker 1: use my muscle and physical ability. While known for her scoring,
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  Speaker 1: Washington noted her greatest improvement this season was in setting
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  Speaker 1: up teammates. Being able to pass and get open in
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  Speaker 1: a way that would help my teammates a lot was big.
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  Speaker 1: Washington said, I believe I had ten assists as much
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  Speaker 1: as I was the number one option. I had to
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  Speaker 1: help out even if I couldn't score. She's now preparing
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  Speaker 1: for the next phase of her career college at Alabama
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  Speaker 1: AA and DM. While she'll pursue a degree in mechanical engineering.
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  Speaker 1: Washington is playing for the Riverlight FC soccer club until
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  Speaker 1: she leaves for college July thirteenth. She's also working on conditioning,
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  Speaker 1: whether running three miles or thirteen laps around the field,
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  Speaker 1: while also working on agility drills. She's got the powerful shot,
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  Speaker 1: but realizes she needs to work on her finesse and
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  Speaker 1: accuracy when she goes against better college goalkeepers. On TV,
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  Speaker 1: they may look slow watching, but to watch games in person,
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  Speaker 1: it's much faster. Washington said, that is the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that everybody that goes into college realizes. Hopefully my preseason
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  Speaker 1: training will get me prepared. I'm excited.