Article: No longer stopping goals, Cardinal is scoring them; Chelsea Lyons helped lead the Coon Rapids girls' soccer team to the state tournament the past two years as a goalkeeper. Now she's trying to do the same thing as a forward - and it's working.(NORTH)

Byline: David La Vaque; Staff Writer

As other Coon Rapids girls' basketball fans were watching Chelsea Lyons run, pass and score last season, Jeff DeJoy was doing calculations in his head.

What DeJoy, the Cardinals' girls' soccer coach, came up with went like this: Lyons' quickness plus her athleticism and tenacity on the court equaled potential success as a forward on the field.

Convincing Lyons, who had been Coon Rapids' starting varsity goalkeeper for two years, to try forward was a tough sell.

"I told him he was crazy," she said. "But I thought, `If I stink, I've got an excuse because I've never played in the field before.'-"

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