Four Warriors on field hockey all-league teams

Four members of Fallbrook High School's field hockey team were given all-league recognition by the Valley League coaches.

Ashlie Lackey and Maiya Romero were among the players on the first team. The second team included Jaylyn Leeman and Erin Murray.

"I think that's really cool,” said Lackey, who was also one of the Warriors' co-captains for the 2017 season. “We all worked really hard this year. Having four players on this team shows that we have put in a lot of hard work."

"I was just very proud of my teammates for getting those honors," said Victoria Russell, the other 2017 co-captain. "In San Diego there are a lot of competitive players."

Russell noted that many of those top players participate on club teams which have national travel. “In Fallbrook we don't have access to that kind of stuff," she said.

Fallbrook's 2-4 record in Valley League play placed the Warriors third among the four teams in the final league standings. The Warriors' overall record of 3-17-1 also includes a loss to Del Norte in the first round of the CIF Division I playoffs, where the Warriors were seeded 11th among the 12 Division I teams.

Lackey was one of only four seniors on the 2017 team, which also had one junior and nine sophomores including Romero, Leeman, and Murray.

The Valley League first team included four players apiece from San Pasqual and Valley Center and one from Escondido along with Lackey and Romero.

"I'm really happy about it,” said Lackey. “I'm really honored."

Lackey was also on the Valley League first team in 2016 when she was a junior. "Seeing that I made it again proves that I worked even harder this year to make it," she said.

Lackey made the Warriors' varsity as a sophomore but did not receive all-league honors for 2015.

"Ashlie worked really hard and she's really coachable," Russell, who is also a senior, said of Lackey's first-team distinction. "There's no one I would rather be a co-captain with."

Baylor University does not currently have club field hockey, but Lackey would join the Bears' club team if one is started.

The all-league recognition is the first for Romero.

"I'm really proud of Maiya,” said Russell. “She's come a long way. For her to make that team is really an accomplishment."

Romero made Fallbrook's varsity as a freshman. "She was unsure that she was put on the right list," Russell said.

"I'm really proud of her because I know her first year as a freshman was pretty hard on her," Lackey said. "She's worked really hard, and she really deserves it."