ALL-SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS’ SOCCER TEAMS : El Toro’s Kenyon Is Selected Section’s Top Player on Offense

Senior forward Denise Kenyon has been named the Southern Section Offensive Player of the Year and becomes the second El Toro girls’ soccer player in the last three years to receive the honor. In 1990 and ‘91, El Toro’s Shawn Viloria was the winner.

Kenyon, who will play soccer at the University of San Francisco in the fall, scored 21 goals and made 11 assists for South Coast League champion El Toro.

The Chargers, 4-A section winners in 1990 and 1991, advanced to the Division I section semifinal, where they lost to Marina. Kenyon was also the league’s MVP this season.

“Denise has a terrific nose for the goal,” former El Toro Coach Kerry Krause said. “She has a strong sense of wanting to win. She never quits.”

Orange County players joining Kenyon on the section’s Division I first team are: junior midfielder Erin Bailey (Edison), sophomore defender Marcy Crouch (Marina), senior midfielder Sarah Heilman (Marina), senior goalkeeper Traci Jensen (El Toro), senior midfielder Sherri Kaminski (El Toro), senior defender Michelle Kennedy (Irvine), junior midfielder Lindsay Light (Capistrano Valley), senior forward Amy Peterson (Marina), and junior midfielder Rhiannon Tanaka (Marina).

Area second-team players are: senior midfielder Trisha Abe (Mater Dei), junior midfielder Tiffany Brown (Santa Margarita), senior defender Jenny Clabaugh (El Toro), sophomore forward Kim Engesser (Ocean View), senior midfielder Lynne Thiel (Edison), senior defender Jenny Uriarte (Dana Hills) and senior forward Katie Ward (Mater Dei).