Mt. Pleasant’s Morgan Gesinski selected 2025 TribLive Westmoreland Girls Soccer Player of the Year
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Sunday, November 23, 2025 | 9:14 AM
Mt. Pleasant’s Morgan Gesinski plays against Deer Lakes on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in West Deer.
Franklin Regional goalkeeper Addison Ayres makes a save during a game on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, at Plum.
Latrobe’s Annalyse Bauer
Norwin soccer player Nicole Bown
Norwin’s Ava Bobby fights for the ball with Penn-Trafford’s Ellie Lebe on Oct. 6, 2025 at Norwin High School.
Norwin soccer player Cameryn Reed
Mt. Pleasant goalkeeper Laurel Rummel makes a save against Deer Lakes on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in West Deer.
Belle Vernon soccer player Abby Russell
Latrobe junior soccer player Emerson Shine scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win over visiting Penn-Trafford.
Franklin Regional’s Allyssa Velasquez moves the ball past Plum’s Addison French during their game on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, at Plum.
Penn-Trafford soccer player Tori Yurt
TribLive Westmoreland Girls Soccer All-Stars
Player of the year
Morgan Gesinski
Sr., Forward, Mt. Pleasant
Goal-scoring prowess can be tough to sustain over one or two high school seasons.
Mt. Pleasant senior Morgan Gesinski did it for four.
A threat to find the back of the net since she broke onto the scene as a freshman, Gesinski is the TribLive Westmoreland Girls Soccer Player of the Year.
Annalyse Bauer of Latrobe and Allyssa Velasquez and Addison Ayres of Franklin Regional were considered.
“You have to put forth maximum effort at all times to achieve your goals,” Gesinski said.
An All-WPIAL and all-state player for the Vikings, Gesinski scored 30 goals and passed out 11 assists as Mt. Pleasant reached the WPIAL Class 2A semifinals.
“She has had a tremendous impact and not just from a scoring standpoint but also from a leadership perspective,” Mt. Pleasant coach Rich Garland said.
“This year, she was a much more vocal leader and teammate. She will be missed.”
With Gesinski in the lineup during her career, Mt. Pleasant was 67-13-2.
She finished with 127 goals, second in program history, and 48 assists.
Her mark on team history has been left. What will fans remember most about her impact?
“Four consecutive section championships and the amazing success the senior class had,” Gesinski said.
The standout said she would make a few tweaks if she could go back in time.
“I would change how much work I put in over the summer,” she said, “and would have done more. And I would change how my focus was.”
First team
Addison Ayres
Sr., GK, Franklin Regional
The All-WPIAL selection and Allegheny commit had 14 shutouts and did not concede a goal in final 590 minutes of the season, while posting 0.90 save percentage.
Annalyse Bauer
Sr., MF, Latrobe
All-WPIAL player and Eastern Michigan commit scored 20 goals and six assists for a Class 3A playoff team and ended her career with 76 career goals.
Nicole Bown
Sr., MF, Norwin
An All-WPIAL selection and Youngstown State commit, the holding midfielder finished with five goals and five assists as Norwin made the WPIAL 4A semifinals.
Ellie Lebe
Fr., F, Penn-Trafford
Lebe had a breakthrough season for the Warriors, earning all-section recognition while scoring 19 goals and dishing 14 assists.
Camryn Reed
Sr., D, Norwin
An All-WPIAL player for a section champion and 4A semifinalist, the center-back had eight goals and two assists.
Laurel Rummel
Sr., GK, Mt. Pleasant
A four-year starter and All-WPIAL selection, she set career program records with 67 wins and 58 shutouts — 14 this season.
Abby Russell
Jr., F, Belle Vernon
An All-WPIAL pick for a 2A playoff team, she had four goals and seven assists from her outside midfield spot.
Emerson Shine
Jr., MF, Latrobe
An All-WPIAL and all-section performer and scoring threat for a 3A playoff team, she had 19 goals and four assists.
Allyssa Velasquez
Sr., F, Franklin Regional
The All-WPIAL and all-section selection had a breakout season after missing most of last year, with 25 goals, including seven game-winning scores.
Tori Yurt
So., F, Penn-Trafford
She came back from a knee injury to earn All-WPIAL honors, posting 11 goals and three assists for a 4A playoff team.
Second team
Siena Ali, Jr., MF, Norwin
Hannah Conn, Sr., MF, Southmoreland
Grace Copeland, Jr., D, Franklin Regional
Caitlyn Fullman, Sr., D, Mt. Pleasant
Alexa Kobus, Sr., D, Norwin
Mackenzie Kubistek, Sr., MF, Latrobe
Saylor Lee, Jr., D, Belle Vernon
Raygan Mizikar, Sr., D, Mt. Pleasant
Emilie Oslosky, Sr., F, Penn-Trafford
Jiana Patterson, Sr., F, Hempfield
Kate Slavick, Sr., MF, Yough
Bill Beckner Jr. is a TribLive reporter covering local sports in Westmoreland County. He can be reached at bbeckner@triblive.com.
Tags: Belle Vernon, Franklin Regional, Hempfield, Latrobe, Mt. Pleasant, Norwin, Penn-Trafford, Yough
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