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• GIRLS ALL-STATE SOCCER •

Ellie
Gusman:
Punahou
Forward
Senior
SHE’S A LEVEL UP
Carly Ann Cormack is selected the All-State Player of the Year after helping Punahou rise to the top
By Kyle Sakamoto
ksakamoto@staradvertiser.com

P
unahou’s Carly Ann Cormack
is simply “on a different
level,” according to her
coach Shelley Izuno.
Cormack, a junior mid-
fielder, rose above all else this sea-
son and was named Honolulu
Star-Advertiser girls soccer Player
of the Year as voted on by a panel
I‘ai
of coaches.
Maafala:
Cormack finished with eight
Mililani
goals and three assists for the Buf-
Forward
fanblu, who claimed the Motiv8
Junior
Foundation/HHSAA Girls Division I
Soccer Championships in February.
“She’s on a different level. Obvi-
ously, she plays great both sides of
the ball,” Izuno said. “She’s a play-
maker, she has really good vision,
she sees the play happen before a
lot of people.”
Cormack’s performance was
even more impressive considering
she entered the season with a bro-
Nikki ken bone in her left foot.
Mau: “I found out my foot was broken
Kamehameha in September, October time, which
Forward was right before the preseason was
Junior supposed to start,” said Cormack,
who has committed to Oregon. “It
was heartbreaking because I was in
a (walking) boot for a month and a
few weeks and it was hard to be
away from soccer for that long.”
Punahou had four players on the
Stellar Eleven, while state run-
ner-up Kamehameha and semifi-
nalist Mililani each had three.
Kamehameha-Maui, the other
semifinalist, placed one. Cormack,
Xevani
Punahou senior forward Ellie Gus-
Salanoa:
man, Kamehameha senior goal-
Punahou
keeper Marley Roe and Mililani
Forward
senior midfielder Kailee Wilson
Senior
were repeat first-team selections.
Izuno, who completed her sixth
season in charge of the Buffanblu,
said of Cormack: “Her technical
and tactical ability is one of the
best I’ve seen in one player.”
Cormack’s signature play was
delivered in Punahou’s 3-0 victory
over Kamehameha in the state fi-
nal. She dribbled between two CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@ STARADVERTISER.COM
Warriors defenders, cut left and
Isabella sent a left-footed shot from a sharp Punahou’s Carly Ann Cormack is “on a different level,” says her coach Shelley Izuno.
Ayau: angle into the bottom right side of
Kamehameha-Maui the goal in the 61st minute to put tain way and icing it and gutting it “She is extremely humble for Izuno was named Coach of the
Midfielder her team up two. out. It improved throughout the someone who has seen so much Year after guiding the Buffanblu to
Senior “I get a lot of questions regard- season and Cormack’s doctor told success,” Izuno said. “She shuts an 11-1-2 record and their 12th
ing that goal and it’s funny because her recently the foot has healed on her mouth and does the work.” overall state title.
I remember some of it,” Cormack its own and surgery isn’t necessary. Punahou senior forward Xevani The one loss and two ties came
said. “In my head, when I saw that Cormack has already made a Salanoa and senior defender Dalen against Kamehameha during the
ball I really put my head down and name for herself on the national Lau, the state tournament’s Most ILH season. In the 2022 state final,
I was going for the goal. I was tell- level. Outstanding Player, also made the the Warriors beat the Buffanblu on
ing myself run as fast as I could Cormack was told by evaluators All-State first team. penalty kicks.
and get to the goal and just place it she was the No. 1-rated midfielder Kamehameha junior forward “We had to have gone through
in a spot where I felt the goalie born in 2006 at the USYS Olympic Nikki Mau and senior defender Ka- those losses as a team, especially
couldn’t reach it.” Development Program National inani Jacang also were honored, the returnees,” Izuno said. “It
As for her injured foot, the time Team camps in 2022 (Tampa, Fla.) along with Mililani junior forward builds character and the message
Kailee off and the boot did not heal it fully. and 2023 (Orlando, Fla.), and the I‘ai Maafala and sophomore de- was, ‘It happened, we can’t undo it,
Wilson: She was left with a painful “loose 2020 West Region Under-14 Talent fender Kyla Okamoto. so what do we do about it now?’ I
Mililani fracture” and a decision. Cormack Identification Program for the Rounding out the first team was wouldn’t have wanted it to have
Midfielder chose to put off surgery until after Girls’ Youth National Teams (Chula Kamehameha-Maui senior mid- happened any other way, the
Senior the season, taping up the foot a cer- Vista, Calif.). fielder Isabella Ayau. losses included.”

Kainani Dalen Kyla Marley Carly Ann Shelley

Jacang: Lau: Okamoto: Roe: Cormack: Izuno:
Kamehameha Punahou Mililani Kamehameha Punahou Punahou
Defender Defender Defender Goalkeeper Midfielder Coach of the Year:
Senior Senior Sophomore Senior Junior
Player of the Year

FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM HONORABLE MENTION

Forwards
Ellie Gusman (Punahou, Sr.)
I‘ai Maafala (Mililani, Jr.)
Nikki Mau (Kamehameha, Jr.)
Xevani Salanoa (Punahou, Sr.)
Midfielders
Isabella Ayau (Kamehameha-Maui, Sr.)
Carly Ann Cormack (Punahou, Jr.)
Kailee Wilson (Mililani, Sr.)
Defenders
Kainani Jacang (Kamehameha, Sr.)
Dalen Lau (Punahou, Sr.)
Kyla Okamoto (Mililani, So.)
Goalkeeper
Marley Roe (Kamehameha, Sr.)
Forwards
Jaeda Edayan (Mililani, Sr.)
Tavena Oliveira (Mililani, Jr.)
Xehlia Salanoa (Punahou, Jr.)
Midfielders
Emily Daehler (Punahou, Jr.)
Rylie Echavaria (Moanalua, Sr.)
Solala Nasu (Pac-Five, Jr.)
Sarah Naumu (Kamehameha, So.)
Defenders
Candace Ching (Punahou, Sr.)
Jaylee Curran (Campbell, Jr.)
Alexys Taira (Pearl City, Sr.)
Goalkeeper
Kelli Cannella (Campbell, Sr.)
ILH
Damien: Kennedy Fujii, Breanne Moreilhon
‘Iolani: Madison Hauanio, Hunter Salausa-Gal-
letes, Renn Tanitomi, Sydni Yoshida
Kamehameha: Emma Attwood, Saraya
Burghardt, Marley Espiau, Keely Kahana, Kamryn
Kaleiohi, Shanti Ng
Mid-Pacific: Kylena Paredes, Anyah Pedro,
Kalena Ramos, Zoe Rasmussen, Chloe Tepraseuth
Pac-Five: Kayla Arucan, Michaella Cox, Ashlyn
Dowda-Gates, Rissalyn Hara, Mia Hironaka, Lily
Leano, Aaliyah-Lynn Manabat, Danielle Query-
Hagedorn, Kana Smith
Punahou: Laule’a Ah Mook Sang, Brooke Bai-
ley, Nicole Beauchemin, Jordyn Eldredge Saga-
polutele, Xeyana Salanoa, Trisha Nitta, Ally
Yoshimura
Punahou I-AA: Rae Kamikawa, Melodie Otani,
Kaylen Shimamoto, Alena Utsuki
OIA EAST
Castle: Chloe Domingo-Sumibcay, Uilani Shima-
bukuro, Kalea Zimmerman
Farrington: Leah Reese Fernandez
Kahuku: Phillicidy Lee, Naomi Saenz
Kailua: Katie Finkler, Makayla Lopez
Kaiser: Ruby Costello, Kylie Ifuku, Kaile Otani,
Emma Rose Parker, Roenne Saddington
Kalaheo: Liv Deeley, Hilinai Schenk, Kilinahe
Schenk
Kalani: Kaiulani Nishigaya, Ava Oshiro
Moanalua: Isis-Jade Bryant, Zoe Crawford, Are-
ana Owens, Taylor Thomas
Roosevelt: Kaia Borje-Peeples, Zoe Maikai,
Shayna Padasdao, Kaileigh-Ann Ragodos
OIA WEST
Aiea: Talia Agbayani, Taj Fermahin, Breenalyn
Shimabukuro, Kiara Sugimura
Campbell: Shaylynn Banaay, Kaelyn Jaentsch,
Trilogy Rivera, Miyah Suster, Jezarae Teixeira, Ava
Rose Whitmer
Kapolei: Taylor Hansen, Faith Hines
Leilehua: Alexyz Nakamoto
Mililani: Emma Higashi, Taylor Howard, Mari Ige
Nanakuli: Kasi Amaral, Glorina Respicio
Pearl City: Aeryn Hatico, Taylor Yoshimura
Waianae: Rushelaine Alsola
Waipahu: Deizha Lyn Jacinto, Keena Nakamura,
CJ Ucol
MIL
Baldwin: Tamilyn Ebisu, Sammi Kinoshita, La-
hela Painter
Kamehameha-Maui: Kaiya Kapaku, Ellie
Kapua‘ala, Maile Kehano
King Kekaulike: Soana Akinaka, Pua Farm,
Taite Taniguchi, Tori Zackious
Maui: Elizabeth Bautista, Teyanna Johnson
BIIF
Hilo: Kryslynn Nabarro
Kamehameha-Hawaii: Sophia Wilson
Waiakea: Ailani Franklin, Kauionalani Mahi-Mur-
ray, Charlie Silva
KIF
Island School: Chloe Ayonon, Mary Magoun
Kapaa: Julia Durocher, Mia Kaneakua-Inoshita, Lau-
lea Miike, Tea Rosa, Emeli Rubel, Sienna Yamashita
Kauai: Keira Caoagas, Brianna Ehia, Coral
Turner, Aileah Villatora
Waimea: Kendra Knapp