Garden City girls soccer keeps knocking off Division 1 opponents
The Cougars are playing stellar against bigger schools, hoping that experience prepares them for the postseason.
Another dream season, another heartbreaking playoff finish. Despite promoting assistant Steve Racine to head coach, the 2025 Garden City girls soccer team didn’t play like it was enduring turnover. The Cougars won 18 games, went 10-0 in the Western Wayne Athletic Conference and looked like a squad ready to make noise in the Division 2 district tournament.
Except their season ended just as it had before — with a loss to a Catholic League team. That time it came against Farmington Hills Mercy in the semifinal, but usually it’s nearby Dearborn Divine Child waiting for them in the championship. “That 7-0 loss against Mercy was tough,” sophomore goalie Ava Novack said after a 12-0 win April 15 at Redford Thurston.
“It sucks you lose after all that hard work you’ve had throughout the season. You score all those goals, make the saves and get those defensive tackles, and then when it comes down to losing just one game, it’s not a good feeling. “But that’s why we said on the bus ride home that we’re going to come back from it and beat them next year.
” The playoffs are still a month away, but the Cougars (7-0-1, 2-0-0) have been playing like a team motivated to right some wrongs when it’s win-or-go-home time. Sure, they’re undefeated. But what’s more impressive is who they’ve beaten.
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