Top Teams Named In Final CT High School Girls Soccer Coaches Poll

CONNECTICUT — St. Joseph High School and Sacred Heart Academy emerged as the top vote-getters in the final Connecticut high school girls soccer coaches poll for 2021.

In Classes LL-L, St. Joseph, the Class L champion, received five of seven first-place votes to outdistance Class LL co-champion Staples. Class M co-champion Sacred Heart Academy also collected four top nods to edge fellow co-champion Mercy in the balloting for Classes M-S.

Here are the top 10 in each division, with first-place votes in parentheses, as well as all other schools receiving support.

Classes LL-L

1. St. Joseph (5)
2. Staples (2)
3. Wilton
4. (tie) Fairfield Ludlowe
4. (tie) Simsbury
6. Fairfield Warde
7. Farmington
8. Waterford
9. E.O. Smith
10. Branford

Also receiving votes: Ridgefield, Amity Regional.

Coaches voting: Barry Beattie, Staples; Chris Ghiglia, Waterford; Mark Kenney, Newtown; Jim Murray, Avon; Rachel Redding, East Lyme; Marvin Miller, Shelton; David Sullivan, Suffield.
Compiled by David Sullivan

Classes M-S

1. Sacred Heart Academy (4)
2. Mercy (2)
3. Holy Cross
4. Notre Dame-Fairfield
5. Granby
6. (tie) Northwest Catholic
6. (tie) Weston
8. Cromwell
9. Woodland (1)
10. Morgan

Also receiving votes: Lewis Mills, Immaculate, Somers, Bacon Academy, Tolland.

Coaches voting: Thomas Cunningham, Seymour; Mark Morello, Lyman Memorial; Erin Reed, Tolland; Nelson Mingachos, Immaculate; Warren Herrington, Coventry; Marcelo Caetano, Cromwell.
Compiled by Paco Ruiz

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