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By Brian Pitts
Enterprise Record

The 2025 Davie girls soccer team failed to make more history – it is 0-10 in state playoff games since the program’s inception in 1991 – but the War Eagles gave it a spirited effort in a 2-0 loss at Asheville in the first round on May 13.
Davie blinked twice, Asheville was opportunistic and generally that’s all it takes when there’s little difference between two teams.
“I don’t think the score was reflective to how tight the game was,” coach Corbin Kopetzky said. “We played on turf; it’s something we’ve not seen before. It’s not quite the same as the old high school’s. So it was a new surface that the girls hadn’t been on. The ball skips differently. So we had to take time to adjust.
“I told the girls we had to minimize mistakes. We had two slight mistakes and left a girl open, and they put them in the back of the net. But overall we moved the ball well. We had pretty comparable possessions. But they capitalized on the two moments they could get a hold of. Like I told the girls, you’ve got to make the most of the opportunity in front of you. And they were the team that was able to capitalize tonight.”
The Cougars (15-3-1) outscore opponents roughly 5-1 on average, including a 33-0 onslaught across the last six games, but they had their hands full with Davie junior goalie Aubrie Pulaski, who racked up 16 saves and helped hold Asheville to single goals in each half.
“She made some that kept the game tight,” Kopetzky said. “She has stood out in both playoff games she has played in the last two years, and she is going to continue to grow.”
The War Eagles fell in the first round like they did in 1994, 1996, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2016 and 2024, but the silver lining was a rewarding 11-6-3 season, just two wins short of matching the record for wins in their 35-year history. The 1996 and 2003 squads went 13-5 and 13-7, respectively.
“It’s been a fun ride. We just had girls buy in,” he said.
Four seniors poured the foundation that saw Davie nearly double its win total from 2022, when it finished 6-9-3.
“Three of them (Sarah Andrade, Monica Ramirez and Jaden Sink) have been with me since their freshman years, and Lydia Postell moved in her junior year,” Kopetzky said. “I remember (Andrade and Sink) coming to June workouts in 2021 when there were only like six people showing up to workouts. The growth from that first workout to where we are right now … It’s been a lot of work, it’s been a lot of late nights, a lot of buy-in from the kids. We’ve really grown. It’s been a cool experience to watch.”
One of the best parts of Kopetzky’s four-year tenure as coach has been watching girls develop into college signees/recruits. Sink had a brilliant four-year run at defender and has signed with Division-I Miami of Ohio. Lanna Robinson delivered one of the most prolific offensive seasons ever. Pulaski has committed to Montreat.
“Jaden’s got some high accolades,” he said. “It’s been one heck of a ride getting to coach her. She’s won many different awards – conference, regional, state – and she’s added some more accolades this year. She was an all-state player last year and I fully anticipate she’ll be an all-state player this year. She’s one of the best to ever come through here.
“Lanna is going to end up somewhere, a competitive D-II school. I think she’s getting close to a commitment somewhere.”
Robinson dominated with 21 goals, followed by Kate Chaffin with eight, Sink with seven and Postell with six. The assist leaders were Postell (eight), Robinson (three), Gracyn Coleman (three) and Sink (three).