Bishop Seabury girls soccer caps landmark season with quarterfinal loss
Bishop Seabury fell 5-1 to Bishop Miege, but the Seahawks closed at 14-4 after their first regional title and first quarterfinal berth.
Bishop Seabury girls soccer ended its postseason run with a 5-1 loss to Bishop Miege, but the final score only told part of the story. The Seahawks finished 14-4 after hosting the Class 4-1A state quarterfinal Monday, May 25, at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, closing a season that rewrote the program’s record book.
For a program that opened with the school in 1997, reaching the quarterfinals was a first. Bishop Seabury had never advanced past the regional championship before this spring, and the breakthrough came three days earlier when the Seahawks beat Baldwin 1-0 on Thursday, May 21, behind a second-minute goal from freshman Presley Peterson. That win brought the school its first regional title and sent it to state for the first time.
The season also produced the program’s first Kaw Valley League championship. Peterson led the attack with 29 goals and 16 assists, while Macy Ankenbauer added 20 goals and 11 assists and Isabella Gonzales finished with 14 goals and four assists. Bishop Seabury also posted its 10th shutout of the season in the regional final, a sign that the team’s rise was built on more than one hot scoring run.
Head coach Ivo Ivanov had described the breakthrough as something the program had been building toward for two decades, and assistant coach Will Whipple said the staff was proud of the girls and the work they had put in all season. That perspective mattered against Bishop Miege, which arrived in Lawrence with the kind of postseason record that has long defined the standard in Kansas small-school soccer.
Bishop Miege entered the quarterfinal as a nine-time reigning state champion, with 10 state titles overall, 15 final-four appearances and a 48-game postseason winning streak after its regional win. Coach Nate Huppe was listed at 206-110-8 in 17 seasons, with a 62-6 postseason record. Against that backdrop, Bishop Seabury’s defeat marked less an ending than a benchmark. The Seahawks showed they can reach the state quarterfinal stage, and now the program’s next test is whether it can return there.
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