Wisconsin high school girls soccer updates

Cedar Grove-Belgium's Cora Erickson breaks the state goal-scoring record — and the Rockets look to set another state standard tonight

May 20, 2025

Back in 2022, a freshman scored in her high school soccer debut. She added a hat trick in her second game, then a brace in in her third game.

The goals have just kept coming, game after game, year after year.

And now Cedar Grove-Belgium senior striker Cora Erickson is the leading goal scorer in Wisconsin girls soccer history.

The Eastern Illinois recruit scored her 225th career goal in a 4-1 victory over Kohler on May 9, breaking the record held by former Ozaukee standout Ashley Bares for the past 18 years. Erickson now has 227 goals and also 66 career assists — currently tied for 12th in state history — meaning she’s played a role in 293 goals during her career.

The numbers are amazing:

Erickson is averaging 2.55 goals per game, and has been held without a goal just nine times in 89 career appearances. Her 66-goal seasons in 2023 and ‘24 are tied for the third-best seasons in state history, and her 55-goal freshman season is tied for eighth.

She has 54 hat tricks in those 89 games (60% of her matches), including 18 four-goal games and four five-goal outbursts.

Watch an interview with Erickson and Cedar Grove-Belgium coach Zac Garza (Sheboygan Press)

State records: Most career goals

227: Cora Erickson, Cedar Grove-Belgium (2022-current)
224: Ashley Bares, Ozaukee (2004-2007)
197: Emily Cervantes, Waukesha Catholic Memorial (2013-2016)
158: Heather Willihnganz, Waunakee (1990-1993)
153: MacKenzie Schill, Pewaukee (2014-2017)

Source: WSCA State Record Book (pdf) and WSN data

Another record within reach

Meanwhile, tonight Erickson and the Rockets will attempt to do something no other state girls soccer team has done: Win 35 consecutive games.

They play host to Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah looking to break a tie with Kiel for the longest winning streak in state history.

Cedar Grove-Belgium, the team that ended Kiel’s record run in April 2024, also is on the fifth-longest unbeaten streak in Wisconsin history at 42 games (41-0-1).

State rankings

Milwaukee DSHA is the new top-ranked team in the state, switching spots with Muskego in the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association overall and Division 1 polls this week. Plymouth did the same in Division 2, moving back atop that poll after Union Grove was No. 1 in last week’s coaches’ rankings.

There are also two data-driven, mathematical state soccer rankings. Here are links to those rankings, along with their top five teams overall.

MaxPreps: 1, Milwaukee DSHA; 2. Muskego; 3, Germantown; 4, Cedar Grove-Belgium; 5, Brookfield East. (These can be sorted by metro markets: Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee and Wausau)
StatsPlus: 1, Muskego; 2, Milwaukee DSHA; 3, Oregon; 4, Germantown; 5, Cedar Grove-Belgium. (These can be sorted by divisions and sectionals)

Tournament time

The 42nd WIAA girls soccer tournament kicks off in two weeks, and we’ll soon have the brackets and pairings — seeding meetings are scheduled for Sunday.

Regionals: June 3 and 7 (Divisions 1 and 2); June 3, 5 and 7 (Divisions 3 and 4)
Sectional semifinals: Thursday, June 12
Sectional finals: Saturday, June 14
42nd WIAA state tournament: June 19-21 at Uihlein Soccer Park in Milwaukee

By the numbers

Longest active winning streaks

34: Cedar Grove-Belgium
11: Howards Grove
9: Kenosha Tremper
8: Eau Claire Memorial
8: Oregon
8: Racine Prairie School
8: Washburn

State records: Longest winning streaks

34: Kiel, 2023-24
34: Cedar Grove-Belgium, 2024-current
29: Waukesha Catholic Memorial, 2013-14
25: Ashland, 2010
24: Neenah St. Mary, 2009

Longest active unbeaten streaks

42: Cedar Grove-Belgium (41-0-1)
36: Muskego (30-0-6)
16: Milwaukee DSHA (15-0-1)
16: Milwaukee Reagan (15-0-1)
13: Hartland Arrowhead (6-0-7)

State records: Longest unbeaten streaks

62: Kiel, 2022-24
56: Waukesha Catholic Memorial, 1995-97
48: Oregon, 2022-23
44: Waukesha Catholic Memorial, 2013-14
42: Cedar Grove-Belgium, 2024-current

Note: Games that go to penalty kicks are officially recorded as ties