Elby, a first-team selection as a sophomore, tied for the team lead in goals scored with 12 and also assisted on eight others.
The Rebels, who finished 13-4-1 on the season and qualified for the CIF Southern Section Division III playoffs, were fortunate enough to have not one, but two dynamic forwards.
Junior Alina Okamoto also had eight goals and a team-high nine assists.
“As far as being so much of a threat offensively, what [Elby and Okamoto] being there did is it always put the other team on its heels,” Chavez said. “They were just really concerned with stopping Alina and Brooke and it allowed us to go at them. On top of them scoring and creating so much, their whole presence allowed us to really go forward.”
Freshman center back Whitney Cohen also made the first team.
Chavez said Cohen successfully adapted from the man-to-man defensive style she was accustomed to in club soccer to the zone-style defense the Rebels played.
“She had to make a lot of adjustments,” Chavez said. “In the first couple of games she seemed kind of lost out there, but once she adjusted, she has good size, is great in the air, really physical and has a lot of technique for a defender. She was the whole package.”
Abby Letts, Connell Studenmund, Kaitlyn Kelleher and Kaitlin French were all named to the second team for Prep.
“Abby, almost like Whitney, started out as an outside back and we moved her to center back,” Chavez said of the freshman defender. “She was great for us in the air as far as clearing balls. She was really solid.”
Studenmund was a first-teamer a year ago as a freshman, but missed the first part of the season recovering from a leg injury that continued to affect her down the stretch of the campaign.
“She was about at 85% during league,” Chavez said of Studenmund, who also had two assists. “It was great to see her bounce back and work so hard. It was hard on her not being 100%, but she was really key in the back. She knows how to play the system and reads it really well and she doesn’t get beat.”
Kelleher, a freshman midfielder, scored five goals and notched one assist.
“She was a great holding midfielder up and down the field,” Chavez said. “She scored a handful of goals for us and they were at really important times.”
French, a senior, also switched positions during the year, going from a center back to midfielder.
“French was a good leader and a solid player all the way around,” Chavez said.
