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Gatorade Player of the Year


Utah Avalanche's Kealia Ohai was awarded the Gatorade 2007-2008 Utah Girls' Soccer Player of the Year.
Kealia is the third straight Utah Avalanche Player to win this award.  She joins her sister Megan Ohai (Avalanche 88 Black) and Kelly Isleib (Avalanche 88 Black) on the list of Utah Players of the Year for girls' soccer.

Kealia, a sophomore at Alta High School, was the state's leading scorer with 29 goals and 11 assists.  She
led her high school team to an 18-2 record and their second straight Class 5-A Championship.   She scored seven goals in four playoff games.

Ohai also excelled academically.  She maintains a 3.8 grade-point average.  Off the field, she donates time
at a local homeless shelter and has raised money for juvenile diabetes by participatin in the annual
walk-a-thon.

"Kealie is as well-rounded a player for her age I have ever seen," Mike LaHargoue, the head coach at rival Lone Peak High School.  "She does it all.  She passes well.  She shoots right and left.  She has a ton of energy.  She's all over the place. . . . It's not fun to coach against her, but it is fun to watch her.  These kind
of kids just don't come around very often."

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner from each of the 50 state and
Washington, D.C., in football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field.  The selection process is administered by RISE Magazine, which works with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of prep sports journalists to determine the state winners.
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