Lady Admirals’ season ends
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FHS goalie, 14, Emery Wylie, makes the save. - Carlos Reveiz, carlos@crfoto.com
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FHS, 28, Kennedy Dade. - Carlos Reveiz, carlos@crfoto.com
Knoxville — Farragut High School’s girls soccer team played one of its best matches of the 2025 season early last week.
Unfortunately, it also was the Lady Admirals’ last game of the season.
“This was the best game we played all season. Unfortunately, we don’t have anything to show for it,” Farragut coach Jessie Stephens Burkhart said after her side came up on the losing end of a 1-0 match against Knoxville West in the District 4-AAA Tournament semifinals on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Bill Wilson Field. “Our kids always show class and they played their hearts out, played their guts out.
“I’m proud of them and I’ve never been prouder than I am to be the coach at Farragut High School.”
The loss marked a heartbreaking ending to a campaign that saw the Lady Ads finish 8-6-1 overall and come in fourth in the league’s regular-season standings.
The Lady Rebels split the district’s regular-season championship with Bearden but were awarded the No. 1 seed in the district tournament by virtue of a tie-breaking coin flip after those two teams played to a 0-0 draw in their annual regular-season meeting.
West (13-2-1), which went on to lose the in the district match to the Lady Bulldogs on Thursday (5-0) scored the lone goal of the semifinal match late in the first half.
Ava Curtis tallied for the Lady Rebels in the 38th minute. She scored off an assist from Ebie Cada with 2 minutes, 50 seconds remaining before halftime.
Farragut missed several opportunities to net an equalizer as Lady Rebels’ freshman goalkeeper Brynn Bush made seven saves in the match, including some clutch stops late.
“We had our chances,” Burkhart said. “But their keeper made some great saves.
“Our girls battled and they fought to the very end.”
