Two local girls earned All-Olympic League first-team honors for their contributions on the Brentwood varsity soccer team this season’freshman forward Amanda Lisberger and senior midfielder Nicki Maron. Lisberger set a new school record for freshmen by tallying 17 goals and eight assists in 21 games while Maron, a four-year starter and two-time team captain added six goals and eight assists as the Eagles reached the CIF playoffs. Friends and neighbors, Lisberger and Maron are both products of the local AYSO program (Region 69) and subsequently became charter members of the Westside Breakers Soccer Club. Maron stayed with the Breakers through her under-17 year, earning most valuable player honors in the 2001 Celtic Cup. Two years later, her team finished atop the gold division of the Coast Soccer League. Lisberger scored 41 goals in two seasons with the Westside Breakers before joining FRAM, a Palos Verdes-based Coast Soccer League team that went on to reach the semifinals of the Walt Disney Showcase in Orlando, Florida.
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