Gatorade honors Glacier's Williams for soccer

The Daily Inter Lake

The Gatorade Company announced Monday that Cadie Williams, a senior from Glacier High School, is the 2017-18 Gatorade Montana Girls Soccer Player of the Year.

Williams is the first girls soccer player to be chosen for this honor from Glacier.

Williams, a 5-foot-4 forward, tallied 33 goals and totaled 14 assists for the 2017 season. She posted seven hat tricks on the pitch and netted at least one goal in 15 of the Wolfpack’s 18 games. For her career, Williams had 58 goals and 31 assists.

Glacier finished her senior season with a 12-5-1 record, advancing to quarterfinal play at the AA state tournament.

She was voted the AA Western Division player of the year by league coaches after the fall campaign. Williams earned first-team all-state honors twice.

According to the Gatorade press release, this award recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. She is now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year award to be announced in June.

Williams, a 3.85 GPA student in the classroom, will play soccer on scholarship at Montana State University this fall.

The Gatorade Player of the Year program, now in its 33rd year, annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the states that sanction high school soccer, along with other sports. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which works with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport.

Every Gatorade Player of the Year state winner receives a $1,000 grant to be donated to a national or local youth sports organization.