Lafayette High School Girls Soccer Program / Wildwood, MO / State Champions - 97’ / 17 District Titles / Class 4 3rd Place - 2023 / Head Coach: Ryan Butchart
Varsity wins the Class 4, District 2 semifinal 4-0 over CorJesu.
Senior Rylee Howard netted two goals tonight, becoming the first player IN THE HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE to score 100 career goals!! A historic night, and a record that may never be broken!
Congratulations to our Rylee Howard on being selected to play in the MAC Senior All-Star Game on June 17 at 6:00pm @ Soccer Park. Rylee finishes her Lafayette career with 101 goals, 38 assists, 240 total points in only three seasons. Unbelievable, proud of you Ry!!
The girls win the Class 4 Third Place game 4-1 over a strong Kickapoo team! They finish with an overall record of 19-4 and 3rd place in the state. What an unbelievable year!! We are so proud of you all!
Goals: Derucki, Beck, White, Stith
Assists: Kinner (2), Bryce
Congratulations to our Rylee Howard who today was announced as a 2022 High School Girls Soccer All-American! This is her second time (back to back) being an All-American. Such a prestigious award and we are all so proud of you Rylee!
The Lafayette Girls Soccer Program would like to welcome Coach Butchart as the next Head Coach pending board approval! He has been the Head Coach of the Lafayette Boys Soccer Program for the past three years, as well as the Assistant Varsity Girls Coach for the past three years.
Varsity falls 2-1 in double OT in the Class 4, District 2 final. The girls had an unbelievable season, finishing as conference champions and a 18-4-1 overall record. Seniors, thank you for EVERYTHING you have done for this program.
YOU HAVE LEFT A LEGACY.
Congratulations to our very own Rylee Howard on winning Missouri Girls Soccer Gatorade Player of the Year!!! We are so proud of you Rylee. An unbelievable honor that you fully deserve.
Our own Rylee Howard brought home the MAC Senior All-Star Game South Team MVP tonight while scoring both goals in a 2-2 draw. It was a great game, and great to see her represent Lafayette one last time! Next - University of Wisconsin bound! ⚽️
Congratulations to Senior Melissa White for being selected to play in the Senior MAC All-Star game! The game will be played on Friday, June 16 at 6pm at Soccer Park. We are very proud of you Mel, this is a prestigious honor!
Congratulations to our Suburban Yellow Pool All-Conference recipients. Proud of you girls!
Player of the year: Rylee Howard
1st Team: Brynn Jeffries, Emily Derucki
2nd Team: Allie Kinner, Lily Zehner, Sadie Wolf, Anya Shawke
Sportsmanship Award: Lily Zehner
Varsity wins 3-0 over Parkway South in the Class 4 District 2 quarterfinal.
⚽️: Emily Derucki, Mikayla Morales, Allie Kinner
Rylee Howard dished out all three assists.
District semifinal tomorrow night against CorJesu @ Lafayette. 6:30pm kickoff.
Congratulations to Coach Butchart who today received the award of 2023 Missouri All-Region Girls Soccer Coach of the Year from the office of the Superintendent of the Rockwood School District!
Congratulations to our girls on their All-Conference honors!
Player of the year: Rylee Howard
Defensive Player of the year: Anya Shawke
1st Team: Allie Kinner, Emily Derucki
2nd Team: Lily Zehner, Sadie Wolf, Mikayla Morales
HM: Addi Keen, Grace Heppe, Taylor Stith
Congratulations to our three recipients who have made the Class 4 Districts 1-4 All-Region Team!
Rylee Howard (player of the year), Brynn Jeffries, and Emily Derucki.
The girls put forth a fantastic effort but ran out of gas and fall to Nerinx Hall in the Class 4 State Semfinal.
Goal: Allie Kinner
Assist: Sydney Beck
We will play tomorrow at 5pm in the Class 4 Third Place game on Field 2 at Soccer Park. One last game together girls!
Congratulations to Senior midfielder Brynn Jeffries for becoming the Lafayette joint single-season record holder in assists this season with 24. Very proud of you!
Varsity with a 6-0 win against Lindbergh!
Goals: Rylee Howard (3), Emily Derucki (2) and Ana McClellan
Assists: Rylee Howard, Claire Scerba, Anya Shawke, Mikayla Morales
GK’s Sadie Wolf and Grace Heppe earn the shared shutout!
We are so proud to announce that our Rylee Howard has just been named a United Soccer Coaches High School All-American!!! She is the first All-American girls soccer player at Lafayette since the 1999/2000 season. We are unbelievably proud of your achievements!!
Varsity with a 1-0 win against a fantastic Eureka team tonight in PK’s!
GK Gen Newell had a huge PK save early on, before all five Lafayette girls stepped up and scored. Captain Hailey Schiwinger with the game winner!
Varsity with a huge win over Nerinx Hall today 1-0!
Game winning goal by Emily Derucki assisted by Allie Kinner. GK Gen Newell and defense with a phenomenal shutout.
Emily Derucki was also selected as the Suburban Yellow Pool Sportsmanship Award recipient!
Varsity with a 4-1 win over Pattonville to kick off our season.
Goals: Derucki (hat trick) , Schiwinger
Assists: Kinner (3) , Cuendet
Freshman GK Gen Newell with her first career Varsity win between the posts.
Varsity wins 4-1 over Eureka in the district semifinals to advance to the district championship on Thursday night vs. Marquette.
Goals: Allie Kinner (2), Addi Keen, Lauren Henry
Assists: Hailey Schiwinger
Proud of you girls. Your effort was phenomenal. Bring it on Thursday!
Varsity wins 5-2 over Parkway West on Senior Night!
Goals: Allie Kinner (3), Emily Derucki, Lauren Henry
Assists: Emily Derucki, Mia Ventimiglia, Addi Keen, Bri Stith
Congrats to Junior Captain Allie Kinner on her first career Lafayette hat trick!
Varsity wins a thriller over Marquette 3-2 in the district semifinal.
Goals: Emily Derucki (2), Rylee Howard
Assists: Allie Kinner, Taylor Stith, Lily Zehner
Varsity falls to Nerinx Hall 1-0 in the state sectional game. We are very proud of what these girls accomplished, winning our first district title in 10 years. Huge thank you to our 8 Seniors for everything.
Congratulations to two of our superstars Allie Kinner and Emily Derucki on winning the U17 ECNL National Championship!!! We love you girls and are so proud of you!!!
What a day… Senior Captain Emily Derucki was inducted into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame receiving the Bob Kehoe Future Star Award. This goes to a male and female player in Missouri. One of the PROUDEST days of my life as a Coach. I’m SO proud of you Em, you deserve this!!
Congratulations to two of our girls who have been named to the Missouri Class 4 All-State Team!!
Rylee Howard: Class 4 Offensive Player of the Year & 1st Team All-State
Emily Derucki: 2nd Team All-State
We are very proud of you girls! ⚽️
Varsity girls took a fantastic Eureka team to double OT and falls 1-0 in the district final.
Thank you to our Seniors. Emily, Allie, Hailey Aly, Reagan, Hadley, Brooke and Bri. We love you - 2 district titles, 1 conference title and 3rd place state finish in 4 years. Legacy.🖤💛
Varsity wins a thriller in PK’s 1-0 against Visitation!
Freshman Gen Newell had three huge saves in PK’s while freshman Lauren Henry won the game on the seventh shooter!
Girls battled very hard and now get a needed rest before next week’s Orchard Farm Tournament.
Varsity with a 7-0 win vs. Lutheran St Charles in the first round of the Orchard Farm Tournament
Senior Captain Emily Derucki scored her 50th career goal tonight, becoming only the 4th player in the history of the program to achieve this honor!
Varsity wins 3-0 over Parkway South to kick off the season.
Goals: Rylee Howard, Allie Kinner, Mikayla Morales
Assists: Emily Derucki, Allie Kinner
JV with a great hard fought 1-1 tie with a goal from Lexi DeJohn.
Congratulations to our three girls who received Class 4 Region 2 All-Region honors! We are very proud of you girls!
Junior Allie Kinner (
#7
) is the Class 2 Region 2 Player of the Year.
Junior Emily Derucki (
#23
) and Senior Melissa White (
#21
) are Class 2 Region 2 All-Region.
Varsity wins 1-0 in OT over a stellar and disciplined Visitation team.
Game winning ⚽️: Emily Derucki
🎯: Rylee Howard
GK Sadie Wolf gets the win and clean sheet.
HUGE congratulations to Emily Derucki for being selected to the United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Team! This award is given to 12 players in the state of Missouri. We are all so proud of you Em for what you have done (career stats below) and what you will do next year! ⚽️⭐️
Such a huge honor to coach the South team in the Senior MAC Girls All-Star Game last night. There was so much talent on display and the girls had a blast. Lafayette Senior Melissa White did fantastic! Best of luck to these girls in their college careers.
@macstlouis
Emily, I am so proud of you. These past two years, you’ve grown so much as a player and individual. I can’t wait to see what we do these last two years before you head off to the MIZ. Mizzou, you’re getting an unbelievable player!
Varsity wins 4-0 over a very strong Marquette team.
⚽️: Rylee Howard (2), Emily Derucki, Anya Shawke
🎯: Emily Derucki, Mikayla Morales
GK Sadie Wolf with the win and shutout.
Varsity opens the season with an 8-0 win over Pattonville.
Goals: Kinner (2), Sinn (2), Hendrickson, Keen, DeJohn, Howard
Assists: Howard (4), Derucki, Kinner, Ponchak, Hendrickson
Freshman Kennedy Howard recorded 4 assists today, great job on your debut Ken!
Congratulations Captain Addison Keen on earning United Soccer Coaches ALL-MIDWEST!!! A prestigious award given to the top 11 players in the state of Missouri voted on by all the coaches in the state.
We are all so proud of you Addi!! 🖤💛
Varsity are the Orchard Farm Tournament Champions! 4-0 win tonight over North Point.
Goals: Carly Swan (2), Sydney Beck, Hailey Schiwinger
Assists: Allie Kinner (2), Lauren Henry, Emily Derucki
GK Gen Newell and defense with a great effort for the clean sheet.
GAME DAY! We will see you all at Worldwide Technology Soccer Park at 4:00pm for the State Final Four! Kickoff on Field 1. Tickets purchased digitally at the gates.
Congratulations to our Senior ⭐️ Hadley Hendrickson on her commitment to play Division 1 soccer at Eastern Illinois University!! We are so proud of you Hads and we can’t wait to see you have a stellar Senior season at Lafayette!!
Varsity with a 1-0 win against a strong and disciplined Parkway Central team.
Goal: Allie Kinner
Assist: Addi Keen
GK Gen Newell with her first career shutout at Lafayette - congratulations Gen and team!
Varsity wins 2-1 over a very talented and strong Oakville team. Girls worked their socks off three nights in a row to finish the week 3-0.
Goals: Emily Derucki & Allie Kinner
Assists: Allie Kinner & Emily Derucki
GK Gen Newell had 10 saves tonight what a performance back line!
Varsity with a 6-1 win over Lindbergh!
Goals: Rylee Howard (2), Anya Shawke (2), Allie Kinner and Emily Derucki
Assists: Brynn Jeffries (2), Lily Zehner, Rylee Howard, Melissa White
GK’s Sadie Wolf and Grace Heppe with the W in goal!
Varsity wins 5-0 on Senior Night over a tough Fox team!
⚽️: Rylee Howard (2), Emily Derucki, Allie Kinner, Ana McClellan
🎯: Rylee Howard (2), Allie Kinner, Mikayla Morales
It was a great night celebrating our 8 incredible Seniors!
Mark your calendars and please join us next Wednesday April 12th for Fan Appreciation Night! We will have some giveaways for fans and all youth players will provide the halftime entertainment for everyone on the field. It will be a fantastic night of high school soccer!!
⚒️𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗘𝗗⚒️
And the final piece of our 2022 class, welcome Sadie Wolf from
@LHS_GSoccer
in Missouri!
⚽ 0.51 GAA, 88 saves, .907 SV% as a senior at Lafayette
🏆 Conference and district champion
🎓 Major: Environmental engineering
#HelluvaEngineer
Congratulations to our girls on receiving All-Region honors!!
Player of the Year: Rylee Howard
1st-Team: Emily Derucki & Anya Shawke
Also, a huge congratulations to our Coach Melissa Schroeder on All-Region Coach of the Year!! We will miss you greatly Coach!
Varsity with a 2-0 win over Lindbergh tonight. Girls worked very hard to finish out a great week.
Goals: Allie Kinner, Aubrey Sinn
Assists: Emily Derucki (2)
GK Gen Newell and the defense with the shutout!
Varsity with a fantastic performance to beat a hard-working Rockwood Summit 3-0!
Goals: Emi Derucki (2), Allie Kinner
Assists: Allie Kinner, Hailey Schiwinger and Ava Brown
GK Gen Newell and defense with a shutout!
Introducing your new Lafayette girls soccer Varsity coaches. Melissa Schroeder will serve as the Head Coach and Ryan Butchart, Lafayette Boys Head Coach, will be the Assistant Varsity Coach. We are very excited to begin our journey this spring!
Varsity wins the District quarterfinal 5-0 over Central Springfield
Goals: Emily Derucki (3), Sydney Beck, Lexi DeJohn
Assists: Kennedy Howard, Sydney Beck, Julia Mattison, Carly Swan, Hailey Schiwinger
GK Gen Newell & Sidney Vogt split the shutout
Varsity with a great 4-2 win over a solid and strong Kirkwood team today!
Goals: Allie Kinner, Emily Derucki, Hadley Hendrickson, Kennedy Bryce
Assists: Lauren Henry, Emily Derucki, Allie Kinner, Hailey Schiwinger
Shoutout to Freshman Lauren Henry on her first career point!!
Varsity with a 4-0 win over Timberland!
Goals: Rylee Howard (2), Emily Derucki, Hailey Schwinger
Assists: Rylee Howard, Taylor Stith, Mikayla Morales, Claire Scerba
GK’s Sadie Wolf and Grace Heppe with the shared shutout.
Varsity begins district play tonight with a 5pm kickoff against Parkway South at Lafayette.
Come out and support the girls as we begin our postseason journey!
@lhs_Superfans
@LafayetteLancer
Varsity wins 3-0 over a tough Incarnate Word team.
Goals: Rylee Howard (2) and Anya Shawke
Assists: Emily Derucki (2) and Anya Shawke
GK Sadie Wolf, defense and team with the shutout!
Tomorrow is the day! Class 4 State Quarterfinals - game is at 6:00pm @ Wentzville Liberty High School. Tickets must be purchased on the link below. Come support your girls as they compete for a ticket to the Final Four!
Varsity with a 1-0 win over Kirkwood in OT
Game winning goal by Hadley Hendrickson after Emily Derucki’s hard work to earn a PK
GK Gen Newell with a huge game and shutout with 13 saves in some absolutely brutal wind
We will be hosting the Class 4 District 4 tournament beginning tomorrow May 18.
4:30pm - Eureka vs. Northwest
6:30pm- Lafayette vs. Marquette
There will be a $5 entry fee but all spectators are allowed.
Varsity with a 6-0 win over Oakville, fantastic team effort all around.
Goals: Rylee Howard (4) and freshman Allie Kinner (2)
Assists: Emily Derucki (3), Lauren Ralph and Brynn Jeffries
Shutout GK’s Sadie Wolf and Grace Heppe, defense and team!
SENIOR NIGHT 💛🖤
Varsity will take on Webster Groves today at 4:30pm on the turf as we celebrate 8 amazing Seniors
Emily Derucki, Allie Kinner, Hailey Schiwinger, Hadley Hendrickson, Bri Stith, Aly Kenkel, Brooke Klearman 🖤💛
Congratulations to three of our girls for making the Missouri Class 4 All-State Team!!
Rylee Howard: Class 4 Offensive Player of the Year and 1st Team All-State
Brynn Jeffries: 2nd Team All-State
Emily Derucki: Honorable Mention All-State