Courtesy: Racine Sports Zone.com


Futsal tournament loaded

The Prairie Futsal Tournament is in its fifth year and it’s been a magnet for some of the best high school soccer players in Racine County history.

This year’s tournament is no exception. The Alumni Division is loaded with talented athletes, and one of the biggest names in county history is coming back this year. The fifth annual Futsal Tournament will be held Friday through Sunday in the Prairie fieldhouse.

Brittany Holterman, a 2004 Prairie graduate who helped lead the Lady Hawks basketball team to the WIAA Division 4 state title and the girls soccer team to two straight WIAA Division 3 runner-up finishes, is playing in the tournament for the first time.

“I play indoor soccer once or twice a week in Milwaukee,” said Holterman, the leading girls goal scorer in county history and the All-County soccer Player of the Year in 2004. “I have never played futsal before, but I convinced my indoor soccer teammates to come to Prairie and play with me.”

In addition to playing in the tournament, Holterman is going to watch the Lady Hawks basketball team play Kenosha St. Joseph in a key Metro Classic Conference game Friday night.

Holterman lives in Bay View and is a civil engineer at DAAR Engineering in Milwaukee. She also coaches a 10th-grade AAU girls basketball team for WBA Prestige in Milwaukee and plays in various soccer, basketball, volleyball and football leagues in the Milwaukee area.

Corey Oakland, the boys and girls soccer coach at Prairie who will be helping out at the tournament, said other big names playing in the tournament include former All-County players of the year Logan Ketterer (Prairie, Bradley University), Eric Frank (Prairie, St. Olaf), Dustin Ashley (Horlick, UW-Milwaukee) on the men’s side and Melissa Rooney (Prairie), Emily Leskowicz (Horlick, Millikin) and Sarah Sedlar (Case, UW-Whitewater) on the women’s side.

In all, there are more than two dozen players who were first-team All-County, Oakland said.

Futsal is a variation on soccer that is played indoors on a hard surface such as a gym floor. There are five players on a side, including a goalkeeper. A smaller ball with less bounce than a soccer ball is used.







Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com