Finalists announced for Super 6 girls water polo
State champion Upper Arlington is well represented on ThisWeek’s Super 6 girls water polo team.
All the honorees are finalists to be named Captain – our girls water polo Athlete of the Year.
Our top athletes in all 30 sports will be among the honors revealed during the Central Ohio High School Sports Awards, presented by Encova Insurance and in partnership with Nationwide Children’s Hospital Sports Medicine and Raising Cane’s. The event’s site, time and date will be announced soon.
Below is the Super 6 for girls girls polo:
Nanami Campbell
School: Worthington Kilbourne
Year: Senior
Campbell was the only senior on a small Kilbourne roster of 11 athletes that featured three eighth-graders and two freshmen.
She earned first-team all-state honors, leading the Wolves with 58 goals and finishing second with 10 assists and 33 steals in 21 games.
Naomi Maurer
School: Upper Arlington
Year: Junior
Maurer recorded 54 goals and 23 assists and drew a team-leading 30 kickouts – also known as exclusion fouls – to help the Golden Bears to their third consecutive state championship, seventh in nine years and 19th overall.
Eleven of Maurer’s goals came in UA’s two regional tournament wins, including six in a 16-3 regional final victory over Napoleon. She was named first-team all-North Region and second-team all-state.
Leah Oberle
School: Thomas Worthington
Year: Freshman
Oberle had a standout campaign, helping the Cardinals improve their win total from a year ago by five on their way to a fifth-place finish at state.
Over 21 games, she scored 46 goals and added nine assists and 22 steals – all team bests on her way to earning second-team all-state honors.
Stella Petras
School: Upper Arlington
Year: Senior
Petras was key to the Bears’ defensive effort as they went 27-6 and won their third consecutive state championship.
The second-team all-state honoree made 23 steals and a block, forced six kickouts and finished with nine goals and 11 assists. She also is a primary distance swimmer for the perennially successful girls swimming team.
Caroline Porterfield
School: Upper Arlington
Year: Senior
Porterfield was the Bears’ primary scorer as they won their second state championship in five months and third in a row. She led the team in goals (117) and steals (85) and also had 24 assists in being named state Field Player of the Year.
Porterfield also was a Super 6 honoree last spring, when she had 48 goals, 34 assists and 67 steals, and was 50-yard freestyle co-state champion in swimming last winter.
Samantha Schaefer
School: Upper Arlington
Year: Senior
Schaefer played integral roles on both offense and defense, recording 40 goals and 41 assists, making 64 steals and drawing 24 kickouts as the Bears captured the state championship for the third season in a row.
Schaefer, who also is a distance swimmer at UA, was named first-team all-region and all-state as a field player. She had 42 goals and 18 assists as a junior last spring.
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