
Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler of Athens Drive High School is Gatorade North Carolina Boys Soccer Player of the Year.
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Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler of Athens Drive High School is Gatorade North Carolina Boys Soccer Player of the Year.

Athens Drive will have at least four players signing this fall with their college of choice. Three of them, Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler, Tyler Draovitch and Andrew Joyce, played on the 4-A East semifinalist boys soccer team. Vandermaas-Peeler, heading to UNC-Chapel Hill was a member of the U18 men's national team that competed in Israel in December, even scoring a goal.

Athens Drive's Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler was named to the USA's U-18 men's soccer team and will compete this week in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Tri-Nine Coach of the Year: James Mountford, Fuquay-Varina
Tri-Nine Co-Players of the Year: David Sizemore (senior), Fuquay-Varina and Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler (senior), Athens Drive
Tri-Nine First Team All-Conference:
The 2009-10 school year has just ended, but for some boys soccer players, the time has just begun to announce their college plans.