The accolades keep rolling in for Mallory Pugh.
The Mountain Vista junior was named on Thursday the Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year. Olympic gold medalist Brandi Chastain presented Pugh with the award during an event at the school.
“Mallory Pugh is the best player in high school soccer I have ever seen,” Heritage coach Adam Buseck said in a news release from Gatorade.
Pugh scored 24 goals and tallied 12 assists in 10 games, leading the Golden Eagles to a 16-3 record and an appearance in the 5A state semifinal.
She is also a member of the U.S. Soccer women’s Under-20 team and is ranked as ‘s No. 1 recruit in the country for the class of 2016.
The UCLA-bound Pugh is the third Colorado girls soccer player to win Gatorade’s national award, joining Green Mountain’s Aleisha Cramer (2000) and Wheat Ridge’s Mary McDowell (2001).
