- November 25, 2024
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The numbers say it all.
Miracle Porter has 50 goals in 20 games (a 2.5 goals/game average). She has nine games with three goals and four games with four goals. In the last five games before the winter break, she netted 10.
(For the full list of WHAT TO WATCH IN 2014, click here.)
Her scoring output is off the charts. And she's only a freshman.
Porter has already set Matanzas’ single-season scoring record (prevoiusly unofficially 39) with at least three games to go. That doesn’t include playoffs.
She could reach 60 this season, which would put her on pace to break the four-year career record next year as a sophomore. Of course, it would be quite the follow-up season if she can net another 50 goals.
In the short-term, Porter is a player to watch because she has the Lady Pirates (18-1-1) heading into the District 6-3A tournament as the No. 1 seed.
The Lady Pirates are searching for their second district title and second state playoff appearance in school history. Matanzas has never won a state playoff game in girls soccer.
But looking beyond this season, Porter is a player to watch over the next three years.
There’s no reason that, assuming she continues to find the net, she can’t eclipse 150 career goals, something only one other soccer player — male or female — has been able to do in Flagler County high school soccer history (Jamie Farrell, who played for the Flagler Palm Coast boys team).
Miracle Porter is officially an athlete to watch in 2014.
