Burrell High School girls’ soccer fans can send the team off in style Friday morning as they head to play in the state championship game.
“We are over the moon here,” said Chelsey McMahon, president of the Burrell Girls Soccer boosters. “We are trying to get as many people as we can to line the street and cheer them on.”
The booster club is asking people to meet at the U-Haul/Dunkin Donuts parking lot, 110 Burrell Plaza, just before 10 a.m. Friday to cheer the team on as their bus departs for the state championship.
McMahon asks people to wear Burrell’s school colors, blue and white, and to bring signs and noisemakers. The police department will escort the team out of town, McMahon said.
“Anything to cheer them on,” McMahon said. “We want them to know we’re there, and behind them.”
While Burrell has had success previously in girls soccer — they were the WPIAL runner-ups this year and last — it is the team’s first state championship game appearance.
The Bucs will play Archbishop Wood High School in the Class 2A final 7 p.m. Friday at Northeastern York High School in Manchester.
“As a parent, it is amazing,” said McMahon, whose daughter, Allie, is a sophomore on the team. “The excitement this team has and all of our supporters — everybody wants this for the girls. It’s a wonderful feeling.”
McMahon noted that two coach buses, totaling about 100 family members and fans, will follow the team to York later in the afternoon to support the team during the game.
“The way the Burrell community has come out to support us this season, it’s not what I expected,” she said.
“These girls — as a whole, and as a team — are a great group of girls. I think people want to support them.”
