Meet the Minnesota high school girls soccer 2025 preseason Dream Team
The list of 22 players includes Gophers commits, defending state champions and multisport standouts.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
Plenty of recent Minnesota girls soccer alumni are tearing it up in colleges and the pros. Someone on this girls soccer preseason team might be the next.
But first, there’s a fall season of high school soccer to play.
Narrowing down three size classifications of talented players into one Dream Team is a tall task, with a limitless number of players to keep an eye on this fall. From schools large and small, spanning from Duluth to Eyota, we gathered a roster of 22 — enough to field two sides of a must-see matchup.
Mikaela Caverly
Edina, junior, midfielder
Caverly has been an impact player for the Hornets since winning a Class 3A state title as a freshman. Last year she tallied a team-high 11 assists, plus 13 goals, as Edina finished as state runner-up.
Lauren Craig
Wayzata, junior, forward
Craig is a major creative force for reigning Class 3A state champ Wayzata. Last fall, she led the Trojans with 23 assists and scored 14 goals of her own.
Jayda Davis
Dover-Eyota, senior, defender
Davis, an all-state center back, brings a strong aerial game and a knack for scoring headers to an Eagles back line that posted seven shutouts last year.
Livi Downs
Mankato West, senior, forward
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Though she’ll tear it up on the hardwood in college, don’t let Downs sneak behind the defense or she’ll add to the 29 goals she scored last season for West. College: South Dakota (basketball)
Reese Elzen
Stillwater, senior, goalkeeper
The dynamic, quick-reacting shot stopper is coming into the fall with Northern Lakes Goalkeeper of the Year honors from her Women’s Premier Soccer League summer season. College: Wisconsin
Brooke Goerish
Spring Lake Park, senior, goalkeeper
Standing 6-0, the Panthers’ all-state keeper stopped 91.2% of the shots she faced last season and led Spring Lake Park to a top-10 ranking in Class 3A. College: Colorado
Maddyn Greenway
Providence Academy, senior, forward
Greenway was named last year’s Star Tribune All-Minnesota Female Athlete of the Year for her prowess in basketball, track and soccer. The dynamic forward scored 42 goals — second-most in the state — en route to the Lions’ first Class 1A state title. College: Kentucky (basketball)
Olivia Halunen
Woodbury, senior, defender
Halunen is a lockdown one-on-one defender who helped the Royals to 11 shutouts in 15 games last season and scored four goals of her own. College: South Dakota

Audrina Hess
Holy Angels, senior, defender
Hess can play anywhere on the back line for the Stars: center back, outside back or center mid. Her seven goals last season were a bonus. College: Valparaiso
Addy Judson
Holy Angels, senior, defender
The physically dominant center back reads the game well in anchoring a Stars back line that conceded only six goals last fall. The three-time all-state defender is also a weapon on set pieces. College: Ole Miss
Izzy Kapanke
St. Croix Lutheran, senior, forward
She’s a quick center back for her club team but is versatile enough to play forward for the Crusaders — and to excel at it, too, scoring 32 times last fall. College: Iowa State
Lilly Kuettel
Duluth East, junior, forward
With a speedy press slicing gaps in opponents’ back lines, Kuettel netted 32 goals last season and helped Duluth East reach state for the first time since 2010.
Emma Kvant
St. Michael-Albertville, senior, forward
Kvant spent the spring winning Class 3A state titles in the 200 and 400 meters, and now she’ll put her blazing speed to use on the soccer field to add to the 29 goals she scored as a junior.
Rylee Lawrence
Stillwater, senior, forward
Lawrence’s high soccer IQ creates opportunities for herself and her teammates, to the tune of 16 goals and 11 assists last fall. College: North Dakota
Bella Naples
Chanhassen, senior, midfielder
There’s no angle too tough or distance too far for Naples to score from. She racked up 27 goals, more than two-thirds of Chanhassen’s scoring, last fall. College: Minnesota
Ellen Neuharth
Holy Angels, senior, midfielder
The reigning Tri-Metro Conference Player of the Year comes up in the clutch, scoring a brace in state runner-up Holy Angels’ Class 2A semifinal — just two of her 24 goals last season. College: Minnesota

Ana Oenning
Eagan, senior, defender
Oenning is a technical outside back who passes crisply for a Wildcats squad that reached the Class 3A state semifinals last year. College: St. Thomas
Ashlyn O’Malley
Rogers, senior, forward
O’Malley is another player who can play defense or up top, scoring 19 times and logging 13 assists for the Royals. College: Southern Utah
Kate Payton
Minneapolis Southwest, senior, forward
Payton’s team-high 15 assists and nine goals often helped tie or win close games for the Lakers last fall, earning her an all-state nod. College: South Dakota.
Taylor Schilling
Mankato East, senior, forward
Schilling scored most of her 27 goals as the season picked up steam, gaining momentum to help the Cougars reach the Class 2A state semifinals.
Maddie Shillings
East Ridge, junior, midfielder
Shillings missed her sophomore year because of a knee injury, but she’s back and already has two all-state honors to her name as an eighth- and ninth-grader. This July, her club team won a Swedish international youth tournament, with Shillings as the finals MVP.

Carolyn Voss
Wayzata, sophomore, defender
Voss, an outside back, earned all-tournament honors for the Class 3A state champions as a freshman, helping the Trojans concede just three goals in six postseason games.
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Cassidy Hettesheimer
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Cassidy Hettesheimer is a high school sports reporter at the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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