Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Sequim’s Heidi Vereide is among the second wave of players from the Northwest Athletic Conference champion Peninsula College women’s soccer team who are moving on to play at the next level.
Vereide, a redshirt freshman who graduated from Sequim High School in 2015, will receive her Associate of Arts Degree at Peninsula this spring and has three years of eligibility remaining to play for Colorado Christian University, a Division II program located in Lakewood, Colo., a suburb of Denver.
She signed her letter of intent this week, along with teammates Bri Vallente of Waikoloa, Hawaii, and Bailie Zuber, of Carson City, Nev.
Vallente will continue her collegiate soccer career at California State East Bay, a Division II university near San Francisco, and Zuber will see her next action at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, a Division II program in Colorado Springs.
“This class has been one of the mentally toughest groups I have coached,” head coach Kanyon Anderson said.
“They responded to every challenge and they deserve the success they have gotten. I am proud of all of these players and know that the programs they are headed to will feel the same way.”
Signing earlier this winter on National Signing Day, Feb. 1, were Audrey Barham, of Sparks, Nev., Kennady Whitehead, also from Sparks, and Hoku Afong of Waianae, Hawaii. Barham and Whitehead will both attend the University of Nevada Reno, an NCAA Division I soccer program, and Afong will play for California Baptist University, an NCAA Division II school.
“We have had six sign so far and several more are waiting to make their final decisions in the next week,” Anderson said.
