Post season review Impact Player of the week #2

The 2nd NW girl's b-babll, Southwest Washington impact player profile is;

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MEGAN DIRE

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Union High School,

senior 2009, Wing #23

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Megan is the youngest of two daughters to Don & Gretchen. Showing athletic promise early on in life, Megan started playing soccer at 8 years old. She started picking up the round ball with her hands and putting it in the hoop as a fifth grader and has been in love with it every since. Being a dual sport athlete is tough in today's specialize world, but Megan is pulling it off at Union, being an important clog on the soccer team, playing forward for the first place team, and becoming an All Region Player and Player of the Year in soccer, then going on to play on the basketball team.

Megan transferred to Union after spending her first two years at Mountain View High School. Megan talks about the transfer as being a very difficult decision for her. She says she loved her friends, teachers and and all the relationships she had created at Mt. View, but she lived in the new school district of Union and she'd have to move to stay at Mt. View. I'm sure Union's head coach Dole was very happy with her decision to transfer to Union. Megan lead Union in it's first year of existence to third place in league, and to the brink of making it to the district championship game. This year Union placed 4th in league and was knocked out of the playoffs early with injuries to key players. Megan was selected 2nd team all league.

things to know about Megan; favorite movie - Hercules; favorite song - Love Story by Taylor Swift; favorite class - AP Psychology and Spanish; Hobbies - spending time with friends and family (two new nieces), going to the movies and listening to music; Her inspiration is her older sister, who Megan says has been through a lot and keeps on going. Megan says she'd love to continue her basketball career in college and would like to study psychology and marine biology and someday would like to work at Sea World.