Girls Soccer: Woodgrove SR Brittany Basinger Named Gatorade Virginia State Player of the Year

(May 22, 2013) - Woodgrove High School senior Brittany Basinger, a defender with U-17 Women's National Team last year and midfielder/forward for the Wolverines this spring, has been named the Gatoroade Girls Soccer Player of the Year for Virginia.

Basinger and the Wolverines knocked off Tuscarora last night in penalty kicks in the Dulles District semifinals and the defending state champions will face top seed Briar Woods Thursday at 6 p.m. at John Champe High School in the title game.


Basinger has 15 goals and six assists for Woodgrove this year in 15 games. She also has trained with the U.S. Soccer Under-20 Women's National Team. She was a 2012 Youth All-American selection by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and she played with the U-17 National Team in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Azerbaijan.

She has signed to play in college with Penn State.

Basinger is the first girls soccer player from Loudoun to win the Gatorade Player of the Year honor since the award started in 1998.