Bartram Trail's Grace Ivey wins Miss Soccer, Jen Rodriguez named top girls coach

Clayton Freeman, Florida Times-Union
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Bartram Trail midfielder Grace Ivey was named Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer after leading the Bears to their third Class 7A title in four years.
Bartram Trail midfielder Grace Ivey was named Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer after leading the Bears to their third Class 7A title in four years.

Before she heads off to Texas, Grace Ivey is concluding her high school soccer career as Florida's best.

The Bartram Trail senior won the Florida Dairy Farmers Miss Soccer award Wednesday, and the Bears' Jen Rodriguez won the girls soccer coach of the year honor.

The Bears won the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 7A championship for the third time in four years, completing the season at 21-0-2 and finishing the year atop the MaxPreps and United Soccer Coaches national ranking.

Signed with Texas A&M, Ivey scored 19 goals and 35 assists in her senior year. She received nine first-place votes in statewide balloting, followed by Gulf Breeze's Meredith Pugh and Cape Coral Mariner's Ryleigh Acosta. St. Johns Country Day midfielder Lauryn Mateo placed fourth in voting, with Bolles forward Annalise Cannada in sixth.

Ivey becomes the second consecutive St. Johns County winner of the Miss Soccer award, following Creekside defender Brenna Robinson last year. She's the fifth local Miss Soccer winner, a list that also includes Orange Park's Jill Ford (1995), St. Johns Country Day's Carson Pickett (2012) and St. Johns Country Day's Abbey Newton (2018).

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Bartram Trail head coach Jen Rodriguez speaks to her team during halftime of an FHSAA Region 1-7A high school girls soccer semifinal against Apopka.
Bartram Trail head coach Jen Rodriguez speaks to her team during halftime of an FHSAA Region 1-7A high school girls soccer semifinal against Apopka.

Ivey scored 59 goals and 59 assists during her four seasons at Bartram Trail, and also won the Gatorade Player of the Year in 2021-22.

Rodriguez won the coach of the year for the second time, after winning the award in the Bears' first championship season in 2020. St. Johns County coaches have won the award in four straight years, including Ponte Vedra's Dave Silverberg (2021) and Creekside's Joe Soto (2022).

In more than two decades with the Bears, Rodriguez has won 359 career games.

Previous coach of the year winners from Northeast Florida are Bolles' Frank Adsit (1995), Orange Park's Rod Kenney (1996), St. Johns Country Day's Mike Pickett (2012, 2017 and 2018), Bolles' Matt Tracy (2015).

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