Lady Red Soccer Re-Tools After Winning Season

For the first time in program history, the Liberal girls soccer team enjoyed a winning record.  LHS was 8-7-2 last year with a 3-4-1 WAC record. For their 2025 season, the Lady Red has some key positions to fill from last year with a strong group of freshmen and sophomores ready to keep Liberal competitive.  Liberal has 35 out for girls soccer under coach Carlos Ruiz who enters his ninth season as head coach.

The Lady Red  graduated nine players and seven starters from that team last year including 1st team all WAC goalie Ashley Acevedo who started much of the season in goal at Seward  and 1st team all WAC Hailey Contreras who plays basketball at Tabor.

But Liberal returns a pair of players who were 2nd team all WAC last year in senior center midfielder Nicole Catalan and senior defender  Isabela Gutierrez.  Sophomore Liliana Santiago anchors the backline.  Aaliyah Morales steps in at goal keeper in her junior season. In addition to Catalan,  LHS will look for offensive firepower from So. Evelin Tarango, Fr. Liliana Guy, So. Yvonna Rivera, and Fr. Ashley Batista, and others.

In 2023, LHS was 6-11 and 2-6 in the WAC.   LHS went 6-10 and 3-5 in the WAC in 2022 after finishing 2021 8-9-1 with a playoff win over Junction City and 4-3-1 in the WAC. Liberal went 7-8-3 with a playoff win in 2019 with a playoff win over Wichita South. Liberal was 6-10-1 in 2018, 8-9-1 in 2017, and 7-10 in 2016. Those records are significant because before 2016, only once had the Liberal girls won seven or more games in a season (2008).

Schedule

March 25- at Guymon

March 27- Denver Bruce Randolph

March 31- Derby at Wichita South Titan Classic

April 2- Wichita East at  Wichita South Titan Classic

April 5- Wichita Classical  at Wichita South Titan Classic

April 8- at Great Bend

April 10- Hays

April 17- Great Bend

April 19- Lamar

April 22- at Dodge City

April 24- at Hays

April 29- at Alva

May 1- at Emporia

May 6- Garden City

May 13- at Garden City

May 15- Dodge City

May 19-24 Regionals