After a winning season and a bid to the UIL soccer Regional-Finals against Colleyville Heritage, the Sandie girls soccer team’s 2025 season comes to an end. 

After coming off a great 2024 season that also ended in the UIL Regional-Finals elimination to Colleyville Heritage, the Sandie’s went into the 2025 season and dominated, finishing with a 22-2-2 record.

“This season has been the most enjoyable season in my 26 years of coaching, not just because of our success, but because of the desire of this team to do well,” Coach Stacy Mcpherson said. “They committed to competing every day, they had fun together, supported each other, and celebrated their teammates’ success; they were positive and just had the best attitudes towards each other and towards being the best teammate.”

Since the start of the season in January, it has been a long and tough journey filled with challenging opponents and predictions of failure in the playoffs.  

“The toughest challenge we overcame was being predicted to lose our third playoff game against Birdville, since the DFW teams are almost always ranked above us, we had to find the confidence within ourselves to keep fighting even when it was tough,” junior goalkeeper Kendall Graf said. “Our hard work paid off and we ended up winning that regional semifinal game 2-0.”

Despite the devastating loss to Colleyville Heritage, the Lady Sandies burst onto the Texas high school soccer scene as a top 5A team. They look to make another deep playoff run in the 2026 season. 

“I think our team can do very well next year. We have some influential seniors leaving, but we have other players that can step up to the plate,” junior centerback Sophie Ferro said. “My hope for next year is that we can still be a close-knit and positive team.”