GVS earns great home W over Big Green
As GVS looks to the final weeks of the fall season, the team stepped up their play and earned an incredible home win (4-1) versus Deerfield Academy.
So much inspired the Big Blue today - including the return of captain Emma Robinson '23 to the sidelines. The team sought to control the tempo of the game and rose to that challenge. In the first minutes of play, a perfectly executed corner kick play led to the first goal of the game with captain Lulu Rourke '23 driving the ball past a gritty Deerfield keeper on a great assist from Emily Mara '25 and Kate McCool '23.
Later in the half, Soph Dandawa '25 showed her toughness inside the 6-yard box and she ensured a goal on another assist from Mara '25 which brought the score to 2-0 after forty.
Mara helped keep the scoring going as she knotted a great goal 1 v 1 versus the Big Green GK thanks to a perfect ball over the top from classmate Hayden Fischer, extending the lead to 3-0. Lulu kept the game out of reach at the 10 minute mark as she blasted a shot to the weak side corner extending the score to 4-1. Rourke's always inspiring play earned her Player of the Game.
Many highlights of the game include the start of GK Abby Heppelmann who inspires GVS every day with her commitment to improvement and love for her team/teammates. Also, earning her first GVS minutes of the season was Caroline Averill '26 in goal.
What a delight to see a number of GVS alums on the sideline - Anna Hurley '21 and former GVS captain Mary Stuart Kerrigan '22, now shining for the U. of Chicago women's soccer team.
A huge thank you to the Mara family for hosting the team for pumpkin carving post-game. Thank you always to all our family and friends who support us day in and day out. #GVSFAMFOREVER