The Mountain Lion Talk

Three quick ones:  After appearing in both meets so far this season, junior Latty Ryals has appeared in fifteen meets over her career at Young Harris, which surpasses the fourteen appearances from 2015 Peach Belt champion Nancy Murgor. Ryals is one of two on the current roster that remain from the 2019 squad... ...The other one being sophomore Chayil Aponte , who appeared in both meets this season after not appearing the previous two years. After a six-meet 2019, she's now appeared in eight meets over her career.  Sophomore Caroline Conner was the top Mountain Lion finisher in the Eye Opener, which was also the tenth appearance of her career. She currently sits at eleven meets. 

With the first dual of the year scheduled for October 4th, let's take an in-depth look at the current roster.  Emily Bush and Simone Mercier will make their collegiate dual match debuts this season while Braelyn Tallant is a returning freshman.  Sophomores Joselyne Chapui , Meghna Mallath and Louise Ratiu , in addition to junior Bailee Wilson , have all competed in twenty dual matches thus far in their Young Harris careers. Yureni Gomez is also returning for her sophomore season but has competed in seventeen dual matches. Also returning for her junior season is arguably the most experienced on the team, Catarina Marcko Ferreira . Catarina has competed in thirty-nine dual meets in her Mountain Lion career (she's appeared in forty but with one win by default). In addition, she joins Haylie Shope, Jessica Beckner, Grace Isakson and Zoe Freke as two-sport athletes at Young Harris, as she's raced in eight cross country meets. 

The first installment of many as we look back on the athletes that have worn the purple-and-white in years' past, and we start with women's tennis . 2011-12 Roster Freshmen: Katie Bryant, Charlotte Dawson, Stormy Dvorak, Charlotte Moreau, Lina Parra Pava, Jane Plevako  Sophomore: Victoria Herndon 2012-13 Roster Freshmen: Diana DiMarco, Carolina Hernandez  Sophomores: Charlotte Dawson, Stormy Dvorak, Charlotte Moreau, Lina Parra Pava, Jane Plevako  Junior: Victoria Herndon  2013-14 Roster  Freshmen: Aimee Dorley, Kadie Hudgins, Sarah Mallett Sophomores: Diana DiMarco, Carolina Hernandez  Seniors: Victoria Herndon, Ann-Sophie Porry 2014-15 Roster Freshmen: Meghan Aligheri, Sara Freeman, Maria Puerta, Elin Rundcrantz, Laura Sanchez  Sophomores: Aimee Dorley, Kadie Hudgins  Juniors: Eva Castiglioni, Diana DiMarco, Carolina Hernandez    

For the following people, the season-opening Savannah Lakes Invite was their first tournament with YHC golf: Tamara Brito , a freshman from Las Palmas in Spain  Alanis Santiago Maldonado , a freshman from Caguas in Puerto Rico  Lucy Weigert , a freshman from Bleckley County High in Cochran, Georgia   

Women's Golf Junior Sarah Comer tallied her fifth tournament appearance after appearing in four-of-eight as a sophomore last season.  Volleyball Sophomore Kori Still extends her program games played record with her fifty-second appearance against Lander (Sep 20), with classmate Kallee McKinney right behind with 51 games played. They are two of four people on the current roster- along with Jessica Beckner and Alex Boydstone- to have played with the team since the first season.  Sophomore Joha Bernis and classmate Lily Hidalgo each appeared in their fortieth game for the program against Lander (Sep 20)  Sophomore Alex Boydstone is nineteen away from becoming the first Mountain Lion volleyballer to record 500 assists- she currently has 481 in 47 appearances

The volleyball team had two games against Georgia College, with one on Friday (Sep. 16) and one on Saturday (Sep. 17), and several milestones were set.  *Sophomore defensive specialist Kori Still became the first Young Harris volleyballer with fifty appearances on Friday and currently has fifty-one. Meanwhile, classmate defensive specialist Kallee McKinney recorded her fiftieth appearance on Saturday. Still, McKinney, Alex Boydstone and Jessica Beckner are the only four that remain from the first season roster (Izzy Zamora was also on the roster in the first season, but she's one of the managers this year and not on the active roster).  *Sophomore setter Mollie Lawrence also set Young Harris volleyball history with the first 300-assist season with her nineteenth of Friday's contest. Through Saturday (Sep. 17) she currently has 339 assists, extending her single-season record.  *Then there's junior middle hitter Alex Pierre , who- correcting some of my earlier posts on t...

Sophomore McKenna Peaster was between the pipes for Young Harris in what was her third appearance and second start of the season (junior Havyn Isaac has the current season lead with four GK appearances). She has tied team alumni Kylie Mason and Alyssa Spridgeon with nine appearances between the posts, which is joint seventh best on the all-time rankings. She is tied with Spridgeon for seventh with 34 saves while her now 662 minutes in goal means that she is thirty minutes away from leapfrogging Yustin Nambo- who appeared eleven times in goal over her YHC career- for seventh in that category.  Updated Goalie Starts Leaderboard (through Sep 14) 1. Nicole Medeiros/Arielle Charles (29) 2. Taylor Erickson (27)  3. Kelsey Cunningham/Pien Van Kampen (17) 4. Alyssa Spridgeon (8) 5. Yustin Nambo (6) 6. Havyn Isaac (4) 7. Kylie Mason/McKenna Peaster (3) 8. Gabby Smith (1) 

Gold: Jackson Jones with 204 appearances Silver: Logan Worley with 182 appearances Bronze: Zach Odom with 173 appearances 

1. Jill Torres - Softball- 244 2. Haylie Shope - Basketball and Softball- 230 3. Grace Botti - Softball- 222 4. Murphy Davis - Softball- 212 5. Chandler Stooksbury - Softball- 206 6. Jackson Jones - Baseball- 204 7. Sarah Magill - Softball- 199 8. Georgia Webb - Softball- 196 9. Emily Harris - Softball- 188 10. Sydnee Weaver - Softball- 187 

Assuming that utility player Morgan Curley returns for a fifth season, she has an opportunity to move up the leaderboard for total appearances. She currently has 167 games played over her career, which at the moment is fourteenth for total appearances, and assuming a 42-game regular season, these are the people she can move past: Biz Walters (171 appearances) Zach Odom (173 appearances) Logan Worley (182 appearances) Sydnee Weaver (187 appearances) Emily Harris (188 appearances) Georgia Webb (196 appearances) Sarah Magill (199 appearances) Jackson Jones (204 appearances) Chandler Stooksbury (206 appearances) 

Having appeared in all five games this season, junior midfielder Hannah Behner has now recorded forty appearances in her career.   Sophomore midfielder Thea Juul tallied the twentieth appearance of her career against Georgia College on Saturday.

Winningest Lacrosse Goalie: Julia Darroch with 36 victories Most Ground Balls: Zach Stephenson with 327   Most Lacrosse Assists: Erika Cross with 129  Most Lacrosse Goals: Nicole Kernohan with 205 (only Mountain Lion lacrosse player with 200 goals) Most Appearances: Jill Torres with 244 (also the softball record)  Most Baseball Appearances: Jackson Jones with 204 Most Basketball Appearances: CJ Wilson with 110  Most Lacrosse Appearances: Erika Cross with 74  Most Appearances by a Two-Sport Athlete: Haylie Shope with 230 (183 in softball and 47 in basketball- she's also the first two-sport athlete at Young Harris with 200 appearances)

Sophomore McKenna Peaster made her second appearance (eighth of her career) and first start of the season against Montevallo, going the full ninety minutes (572 for her career) and saving five-of-six. Overall, she has thirty saves in eight appearances, extending her #8 mark on the program leaderboard. *Junior Havyn Isaac is ninth with 20 saves 

Sophomore defensive specialist Kori Still is one game away from becoming the first Young Harris volleyballer with 50 appearances  Junior middle hitter Alex Pierre continued her march toward the top ten in career games played. She appeared in her twenty-first game against Francis Marion and needs just two to tie Ginger Truncale for #10  Sophomore outside hitter Chase Vaigneur tallied her thirty-fifth appearance while classmate setter Alex Boydstone recorded her forty-fifth Sophomore setter Mollie Lawrence extended her season assists record- with seventeen against Francis Marion, she has 281 through eleven games and needs just nineteen to record the first 300-assist season in Young Harris volleyball history 

*Sophomore setter Alex Boydstone extended her third-place mark for games played as she's now up to 44 appearances  *Sophomore defensive specialist Kori Still is two games away from becoming the first Mountain Lion volleyballer in the 50 Club for career appearances.  *Junior middle hitter Alex Pierre appeared in her twentieth game for the volleyball team. She's now four appearances away from moving into the top ten for games played.  *Sophomore setter Mollie Lawrence has the new standard for assists in a season- after her 55 across the Fayetteville State-Converse doubleheader she has 264 through ten games (Alex Boydstone had the previous mark with 242 during the spring '21 season)

Sophomore setter Mollie Lawrence can make Mountain Lion history this season. After 55 assists in the Fayetteville State-Converse doubleheader, she has 264 assists through just ten games- moving easily past Alex Boydstone's 244-assist mark in the spring '21 season. She needs just 136 more in the next twenty games to become the first Mountain Lion volleyballer with a 400-assist season. Fellow sophomore Alex Boydstone, meanwhile, can become the first Mountain Lion setter with 500 career assists- after her 15 against Fayetteville State she has 465 in 44 games.  

The 200 Club celebrates the YHC student athletes that have appeared at least two hundred times in their Mountain Lion careers. Grace Botti racked up 222 appearances in a softball career spanning from 2016 to 2019  Murphy Davis tallied 212 appearances in a softball career starting in 2015 and ending in 2018 Jackson Jones has the most baseball appearances at the moment with 204 games played. Logan Worley is second on the list, twenty-two games back    Haylie Shope has 230 appearances between basketball and softball and is the only two-sport athlete in Mountain Lion history with 200+ appearances. She's appeared 183 times for softball and 47 times for basketball Chandler Stooksbury tallied 206 appearances for softball  Jill Torres has appeared an impressive 244 times for the softball team, which is also the school record for appearances across all sports. She holds NCAA-era softball records for slugging percentage, on-base percentage, home runs, RBI, total bases, wa...

Junior Havyn Isaac , a transfer from Georgia Military: 4 Games, 341 Minutes (tenth-most since 2010), 20 Saves, three-of-four appearances have been the full 90 minutes  *Kylie Mason is #9 on the list with 421 minutes  Sophomore McKenna Peaster : 1 Game (seventh career appearance), 18 Minutes (482 total), 0 Saves 

Sophomore setter Alex Boydstone has 450 assists in 42 career games, and this includes her first season where she dished out 242 assists. There's the question, though, of can a newcomer improve on that mark?  That would be a yes.  Mollie Lawrence , formerly at Augusta University, has announced herself as the team's top setter option this season with 209 assists in just eight games- an average of 26 per game. This includes two games with 35+ and one with 45.  She needs 33 assists to tie Boydstone's mark from the spring '21 season, which means she can surpass it by Sunday.    And one other tidbit: Lawrence needs 191 assists to become the first in Young Harris volleyball history to tally 400 assists in a season. Not counting the playoffs, there are 22 games left in the regular season, which means that Lawrence needs to average eight assists per game to tie that number (and she averages six per set).  

Through Wednesday, September 7th *Sophomore defensive specialist Kallee McKinney tallied her forty-fifth appearance for the program *Freshman right side/outside hitter Abby Schirm appeared in her third game of the season  *With her eighteenth appearance, junior middle hitter Alex Pierre is six games played away from the top ten  *Sophomore setter Alex Boydstone recorded her forty-second appearance, increasing her hold on third all-time for games played  

1. Kori Still (45) 2. Kallee McKinney (44) 3. Alex Boydstone (41) 4. Jessica Beckner (39) 5. Lily Hidalgo , Joha Bernis (33) 6. Chase Vaigneur (31) 7. Annie Messler, Sophie Bearden , Shelby Mullins (30) 8. Lorin Tidick (25) 9. Ginger Truncale (23) 10. Amber Cunningham (20) 11. Alex Pierre (17) 12. Emily DeBerry (16) 13. Hailey Hart, Gray Miller (14) 14. Marie Ahern (13) 15. Haley King (10) 16. Mollie Lawrence , Nicole Klucharich (7) 17. Jamie Thomas (6) 18. Mikaela Chappelear (5) 19. Rojina Jafari-Naeini (4) 20. Abby Schirm (2)  21. Izzy Zamora (1)  * Bolded and Italicized = Current Athlete 

1. Kori Still (43) 2. Kallee McKinney (42) 3. Jessica Beckner, Alex Boydstone (39) 4. Lily Hidalgo, Joha Bernis (31) 5. Annie Messler (30) 6. Chase Vaigneur (29) 7. Sophie Bearden, Shelby Mullins (28) 8. Lorin Tidick (24) 9. Ginger Truncale (23) 10. Amber Cunningham (20) 11. Emily DeBerry, Alex Pierre (16) 12. Hailey Hart, Gray Miller (14) 13. Marie Ahern (13) 14. Haley King (8) 15. Mikaela Chappelear, Mollie Lawrence, Nicole Klucharich (5) 16. Rojina Jafari-Naeini, Jamie Thomas (4) 17. Abby Schirm (1)