Sewickley Herald

              SPIRITED SENDOFF. Last Thursday, the whole school turned out to give the Quaker Valley Soccer Team an extra boost of enthusiasm as they departed for Shippensburg University to face Tulpehockenin High School in a battle for the state championship. Despite rain, cold and mud, the Boys of November did not disappoint their supporters. They returned bearing a V for Victory, after
defeating their opponents with a score of 4—1. This was Quaker Valley Highl School’s first state championship, which seems even more spectacular considering the team is only five years old. For an in-depth rundown on the game, I see page 1A in today’s Herald.
(Photo by Robert Hartley)
V for QV Soccer Team
Despite rain, kickers win reign as state champs
By Sue Maloney
After 15 days of rain, sunshine bathed Sewickley on' Sunday, a gift from the gods to bestow laurels upon the Quaker Valley Soccer Team, which won its first state championship on Saturday.
Throughout the community, the words, “Did you hear? Did you hear?,” echoed over the weekend at the shopping centers, stores and homes as the message spread.
On Monday morning, the celebration climaxed at Quaker Valley Senior High School gym, where standing ovations, shouts and tears mingled in an emotional tribute to the students who had brought home the school’s first team state championship.
Gold trophies stood triumphant on a table surrounded by parents and teammates. After comments by Principal Vincent Cortese, soccer Coach Gene Klein took center stage to a standing ovation. Then he presented medals to each memeber of the team.
While the crowd roared and parents snapped photos, the cheerleaders saluted the team with a new cheer, “We are QV; we are state champs,”
Principal Cortese says "We’ve had state champions, but never a team before,” He estimates that QV topped more than 260 teams to win a title. “It’s great that a team, which has only been around five years, can win the championship.” He gives the credit to “the kids and Coach Klein.”
Leo Moss, owner of Sewickley’s United Men’s Store, remembers when Klein called him five years ago. Klein asked Moss, a club soccer coach, about the club program before undertaking the job of coaching the high-school team.
“I told him then that the kids I had — 14 years and under — had a lot of talent, and they would become competitive in a few years. I knew all these kids when they were growing up,” Moss remembered.
And he added: “And Gene made them state champions. I don’t think there’s a better coach in Western Pennsylvania than Gene,”
Moss estimates, “We may not only be the best in the AA Division but the best in the entire state.” As a founder of Sewickley Area Soccer Inc., Moss is glad “Sewickley is getting known as the hub of soccer in the area.”
He points out that college scouts with scholarships will now be watching Quaker Valley. “It’s amazing that a high school as small in size as Quaker Valley (about 500 students) has such a strong program in relationship to all the larger schools it plays.”
While the high school was celebrating, Superintendent Dr. Leroy Kite was attending the first superintendent’s coffee -----------------Continued on Page A10
WINSOME THREESOME. Displaying the victory ball are, left to right: Coach Gene Klein, assistant Coach Steve Klein and Principal Vincent Cortese.
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Chef Marilyn Rahn ascertains aperatifs, analyzes appetizers
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