Kenney all-league in two sports, girls soccer player of the year

Morro Hills resident Morganne Kenney played two winter sports for Tri-City Christian during the 2014-15 season and earned all-league in both, including Pacific League girls soccer player of the year recognition.

"I was excited. I didn't expected it, so it was nice because I'm only a sophomore," she said of her league player of the year honors.

Kenney was also named to the Pacific League's second team for girls basketball.

"I was really happy about it," Kenney said of being named all-league in two sports. "It was a good way to end the season."

Kenney is a forward on Tri-City Christian's soccer team. During the 2014-15 season she led all Pacific League players with 22 goals and also had four assists. "It was a really good year," she said.

This year's Eagles team had only two seniors. The team finished third in the four-team Pacific League standings. "It was a learning experience for everybody," Kenney said.

Kenney was also on the all-league first team for girls soccer in 2013-14, when she started for the Eagles as a freshman. Kenney has also played club soccer with the Oceanside Breakers for the past seven years.

Kenney is a point guard on the Eagles' basketball team. Although she started on the Tri-City Christian varsity as a ninth-grader, the 2014-15 season was her first with basketball all-league recognition. "Definitely did not expect that," she said.

"Having that was a nice honor for me," Kenney said. "Basketball's never been my main sport, so that was kind of cool."

Kenney's 11.2 points per game led the Eagles' players, as did her 22 assists. Her 27 steals ranked second on the team. Her points per game total ranked fifth among Pacific League players. Five girls basketball teams were in the 2014-15 Pacific League; the Tri-City Christian team which had only one senior and one junior finished third in the standings.

Kenney's basketball season included a Dec. 30 Tri-City Holiday Invitational tournament game against Fallbrook High School; she scored 16 points in the Eagles' 46-38 loss to the Warriors.

Tri-City Christian's girls soccer team practices immediately after the end of the school day. The boys basketball team uses the school gymnasium for practice during that time, so soccer practice is over when girls basketball practice begins. "It's really hard and it's kind of exhausting, but it's really worth it," Kenney said of playing two sports in the same season.

Kenney does not play a fall sport. Last year she was a jumper and hurdler on the Eagles' track and field team. Kenney fractured her ankle during the final game of the high school soccer season, and while she is able to run well enough to play club soccer her current injury status prevents her from competitive jumping including track hurdles so she is currently not participating in track and field. "I'm going to get back into it," she said. "I'm hoping to get back into it but just not right now."

In 2014, Kenney played club soccer during the spring in addition to her participation on the Eagles' track and field team.

Kenney is a member of Fallbrook 4-H and entered lambs at the San Diego County Fair from 2010 to 2013, including one which won supreme reserve champion honors in 2012 and one which earned 4-H reserve grand champion honors at the 2013 fair. Kenney did not enter any animals in the 2014 county fair but is raising two lambs this year for expected fair participation. She acquired those two lambs in mid-March.

Kenney, who is 16, was born at Fallbrook Hospital and is a lifelong Morro Hills resident.