POKRANDT REPEATS AS KJCCC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
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Sophomore defender Anastasia Pokrandt became just the third Hutchinson Community College women's soccer player to win a major Jayhawk Conference postseason award in back-to-back seasons.
Pokrandt was named the 2025 KJCCC Division I Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Year for the second time on Thursday to lead seven overall Blue Dragons on the KJCCC postseason awards list.
Pokrandt joined forward Poppy Smith, defender Teagan Garrison and midfielder Olivia Tamaki on the 2025 first team. Forward Isabela Puccinelli, goalkeeper Evie Carvell and midfielder Ella Swearingen were named to the all-KJCCC second team.
The 19th-ranked Blue Dragons are 13-2-4 this season and will play for a Region 6 Tournament championship at 2 p.m. Saturday against Cowley at the KCK Soccer Complex in Kansas City, KS
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ANASTASIA POKRANDT – Co-Defensive Player of the Year/1st Team
Pokrandt is the first Blue Dragon to win Defensive Player of the Year award in consecutive seasons. After winning it outright as a freshman, Pokrandt was the 2025 co-Defensive Player of the Year recipient, sharing the award with Cowley's Sthefany Silva.
Pokrandt is the third Blue Dragon player to win a major conference award in consecutive seasons. Alicia Robinson was the KJCCC Offensive Player of the Year in 2010 and 2011 and Hadlie Lowe won Offensive Player of the Year honors in both 2021 and 2022.
This is the eighth time a Blue Dragon has won conference Defensive Player of the Year honors. Other Blue Dragons to win the award are Finola Corley (2010), Bekah Ramstack (2011), Siobhon Wilson (2014), Madison Pollack (2016), Chiara Soergel (2019) and Lexi Jack (2022).
When Pokrandt, a 5-foot-5 defender from Karisruhe, Germany, won the award as a freshman, the Blue Dragons allowed 0.99 goals per game. That number dropped this season to 0.68 goals per game allowed. The Dragons have had 10 shutouts this season.
With Pokrandt anchoring the defense, Hutchinson ranks 16th in goals against average (0.68), 17th in shutouts (10), and 20th as a team in goals allowed (13).
Pokrandt has one goal and three assists this season offensively. She had the game-winning assist in Hutchinson's go-ahead goal with 12.2 seconds to go in a season-opening 2-1 victory over No. 12 Trinity Valley.
TEAGAN GARRISON – 1st Team
Garrison, a 5-6 sophomore from Mulvane, is a two-year starter at outside back for the Dragons.
She, too, has played a major role in the Blue Dragons' defensive success over the past two seasons.
Opposing teams are taking an average of 6.9 shots per game and only 3.1 shots are getting through to the goalkeepers.
Garrison also plays an important role in clearing the ball out of the Blue Dragon defensive end.
OLIVIA TAMAKI –1st Team
Tamaki is the leading point scorer and assist person for the Blue Dragons this season with 31 overall points, nine goals and a team-high 13 assists.
Tamaki has two game-winning goals, including the overtime game winner in Hutchinson's 1-0 win over Dodge City in the Region 6 Tournament opening round last Saturday.
The freshman midfielder from Campinas, Brazil had one multi-goal game, scoring a pair in an 8-1 win over Dodge City. She had a season-high three assists in an 8-1 win over Coffeyville. Tamaki has scored at least one point in 14 of 19 games played, including the last four entering Saturday's Region 6 Tournament championship game.
POPPY SMITH –1st Team
The freshman forward from Royston, England, had a two-goal debut for the Blue Dragons in a 2-1 win over No. 12 Trinity Valley in August.
For the season, Smith is tied for the team lead with 10 goals. She has five assists and 25 points this season.
Smith has a pair of two-goal games against Trinity Valley and Coffeyville. She has three game-wining goals (Trinity Valley, Coffeyville and Coffeyville).
ISABELA PUCCINELLI – 2nd Team
Puccinelli played in 17 of Hutchinson's 19 games this season and scored at least one point in 12 of the 17 played.
For the season, the 5-10 forward from Curitiba, Brazil, had 10 goals, 10 assists and 30 points. She also had a pair of game-winning goals against NOC-Enid and Garden City.
Puccinelli recorded the team's only hat trick in 2025 – which turned out to be the 100th in Blue Dragon women's soccer history – going for an eight-point game in a 5-0 win over Garden City. She had three goals and two assists against the Broncbusters.
EVIE CARVELL – 2nd Team
Carvell has posted a 10-3-4 record this season as the Blue Dragons' primary goalkeeper. The freshman from Billericay, England, is the seventh freshman goalkeeper to record double figure wins.
Carvell has six shutouts this season, including back-to-back shutouts in two Region 6 Tournament games played thus far.
She has a 0.83 goals-against average and a .769 save percentage.
Carvell had a season-high six saves twice, doing so against Cowley and Barton.
ELLA SWEARINGEN – 2nd Team
The 5-4 freshman midfielder from Rose Hill scored two goals this season for the Blue Dragons, but her major contributions as playing on the outside have been of a defensive variety.
Swearingen started in all 19 games. Her aggressive play in the middle third of the field forced opponents to work the ball up field away from her.
Swearingen did have one game-winning goal this season, that coming in a 1-0 victory at Seward County on October 15.