Bonneville High School star forward Jaiden Thornock has been named the 2009-10 Gatorade Player of the Year for Utah girls soccer.
Thornock is the first Lakers' girls soccer player chosen for the award.
The 5-foot-4 junior forward recorded 26 goals and 10 assists this past season, leading the Lakers (15-3) to the state 4-A championship match. The 2008 Standard-Examiner All-Area Most Valuable Player, Thornock is a member of the U.S. Youth Soccer 1993 Region IV Olympic Development Program team.
Thornock scored at least one goal in all 18 of Bonneville's games in 2009 and she has recorded 54 career goals through her junior season, the third most in school history "She has the drive and the work-rate besides her natural God-given speed," said Bonneville coach Lane Barker. "She battles like you've never seen."
Thornock has maintained a 3.98 GPA in the classroom. An active member of her church community, she has volunteered locally as a youth soccer instructor and at an assisted living facility.
Thornock has verbally committed to play soccer on scholarship at Brigham Young University beginning in the fall of 2011.
She is now a finalist for the national Gatorade Player of the Year award.
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport.
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