Jensen Sevening wins Metro Spotlight Award
Linn-Mar junior Jensen Sevening is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school girls this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.
Sevening and Olivia Garcia have given the second-ranked Lions a strong 1-2 punch this season. Sevening has seven goals and five assists in eight games.
Here is our Question-&-Answer session with Jensen Sevening:
MSR: What has been your favorite individual highlight in sports?
JENSEN: This one is from my freshman year (2012) in a game at Linn-Mar against a pretty big rival Iowa City West. The game was first played for about 15 minutes until it was stormed out and postponed until later.
When it continued, I scored off of a free kick with about 10 minutes left to put us up 1-0. With about three minutes left, West tied it at 1-1 and the game went into overtime. We scored about halfway through, but the ref called it off due to a hand ball so the game then went to penalty kicks.
After five shooters, it was again tied at 5-5, so it became sudden death PKs and our keeper Rylie Frese made an awesome save and I scored the game-winning goal as the sixth shooter.
