Soccer team defeats YULA for the first time in nearly a decade
BP Photo courtesy of Josh Weindling
WIN: The Firehawks celebrated a victory against YULA at Schnitzly.
May 18, 2018
Short and sweet, Shalhevet’s soccer season lasted from the first game on Nov. 21 to Feb. 9, and ended in five losses, one tie, and six wins – including beating YULA, something that hasn’t happened in 7 years, according to Coach Ryan Coleman.
“We had prepared for that game for so long,” said junior Amir Maman. “ It was on our minds from the beginning of the season and when we did it, it felt surreal.”
Other players from the team said the YULA victory was their biggest accomplishment.
“It was great,” said senior Sam Hirschhorn. “ It was a culmination of all our hard work.”
According to Shalhevet students, end results from past years have been very close. “We were super close the past two years,” said Sam. “To finally break through felt incredible.”
Molly Litvak joined the Boiling Point in her freshman year as a staff writer and quickly fell in love with journalism. She was Community editor in her junior year, and Outside News editor in sophomore year, where she won multiple national awards for her stories, especially for her report on anti-gentrification protests at Asher Caffe in Boyle Heights. Outside of writing, editing, and leading meetings for the Boiling Point, Molly is the captain of Shalhevet’s Model Congress team, a senior lawyer on the Mock Trial team, and a teen board member of Friendship Circle, where she has been volunteering since seventh grade.
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