• PHS girls soccer team (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Maggie King (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Coach Mat Phelps enters his eighth year as head coach. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Isabel Morales-Marquez (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Ellie Dye (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Ellie Dye (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Natalie Dunn (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Natalie Dunn (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Coach Mat Phelps has been experimenting with moving Natalie Dunn, a first-team all-conference defender last year, to midfield. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Logan Cook (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Ana Candanoza (17) and Madyx Mooney (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Ana Candanoza (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • PHS sophomore Ana Candanoza scored a goal on this play in a jamboree game against Junction City. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Sophia Bauer (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Sophia Bauer (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Soccer officials prepare for a match. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)

Brad Fuqua has covered the Philomath area since 2014 as the editor of the now-closed Philomath Express and currently as publisher/editor of the Philomath News. He has worked as a professional journalist since 1988 at daily and weekly newspapers in Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, Arizona, Montana and Oregon.