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NAME: Ana Manning
SCHOOL: Milford High
School
SPORT(S): Soccer
GRADUATING YEAR: 2024
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT:
Selected as an All-American
BIRTHDATE: 9/28/2006
HEIGHT: 5'7"-125 lbs.
RESIDENCE: Miami Township
PARENTS: Ray & Jeri
BIGGEST INFLUENCE: "My
mother."
FUTURE GOAL: Degree in
Sports Management; play professionally
Leading the defending ECC soccer champion Milford Eagles this season
is senior Ana Manning, who is a highly decorated All-American soccer
forward, a two-time ECC Player of the Year winner and the reigning
Cincinnati Div. I Player of the Year (Enquirer) and the Div. I
Southwest Coaches Association Player of the Year. She also was the ECC
Offensive Player of the Year and was a finalist for Cincinnati Player
of the Year by the Cincinnati High School Sports Awards. With an
outstanding high school career, Ana is the ECC career leader in goals
scored.
Her junior year, she led the Eastern Cincinnati Conference in goals
(29, a single-season school record) and points (68) and finished tied
for second in the league with 10 assists. She helped lead Milford to a
19-2 record that included ECC and district championships, and a spot
in the regional semifinals. She had 10 multi-goal games, including two
three-goal hat trick games vs. Sycamore and Kings. Other multi-goal
games included scoring two goals vs. Mount Notre Dame, two goals
(along with two assists) against Walnut Hills and two goals (along
with two assists) vs. Winton Woods.
Ana also holds the school records for career goals (56) and career
points (132). The Lady Eagles have won 10 conference championships and
three district championships. In games this season, Ana scored a hat
trick in a 4-1 win vs. Turpin, two goals in a win vs. Colerain and one
goal each in winning games vs. Lebanon, Sycamore and Beavercreek. She
also scored a goal in a 2-2 tie vs. Mount Notre Dame and scored a goal
with two assists in an 8-0 win over Winton Woods. In addition, she
scored a goal in a 3-1 win over Oak Hills.
Ana is a two-time all-city, all-region and all-state player. Her
national exposure includes being selected to play in the ECNL National
Selection Game in New Jersey. She has been nominated for USA Today
Soccer Player of the Year.
A good student who is active in community service, she played on boys’
teams until she was 11 years old. Ana will continue her soccer play
next season at Eastern Kentucky University.
COACH'S QUOTE – "Ana is exceptionally talented in finding
goal-scoring opportunities. Her talent matched with her incredible
work ethic makes her the phenomenal player she is. She is a great role
model to her teammates by showing that talent coupled with hard work
gets results."
— Jill Helms, Varsity Soccer Coach
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