Episode Details

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me about this team in particular.

Student:
I mean it's like just such a special group. It is like how can I go and be successful for the team.

Student:
We all like sisters, we all support each other.

Student:
We just knew this year, like before the season even started all the seniors just got together. We decided like hey, let's just make this the best year ever.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. They are identical twins with an identical goal, getting the very best out of high school athletes on the Riverton High School Girls Lacrosse team. On this episode of the Supercast, meet identical twin sisters Hannah and Maddie Kelleher, who recently led the Riverton High Girls Lacrosse team to their very first state championship title. It was a hard-fought victory that came down to the wire in overtime, but the winning didn't stop there. The team had something else to celebrate as Coach Hannah was named the 2026 Utah USA Girls Lacrosse Coach of the Year.

Anthony Godfrey:
We are at Riverton High School on the field talking with two of the Riverton Girls Lacrosse coaches. Introduce yourselves.

Coach Hannah:
I'm Coach Hannah, I'm the head coach here at Riverton.

Coach Maddie:
I'm Coach Maddie, and I'm the assistant coach.

Anthony Godfrey:
So if you can't tell by listening to their voices, they are twins, and they are incredible. They just won, here at Riverton, the first Girls Lacrosse state title. Tell us how that feels to be part of that.

Coach:
Oh, I mean it feels great. Like, I mean, we told the girls because we had the privilege of doing it at Herriman when we were played over there in 2019. And it's like, I'm like, it's the best day ever. Coach:
Seriously, like, it's all that hard work. It's like finally coming to fruition and to have been able to make history with this group of girls, like, I mean, it's something we've been working on for three years now. And so to have finally seen it happen, like, it's just so, so awesome.

Coach:
Yeah, I mean, just to add on to that awesome feeling, awesome group of girls, I wouldn't want to do it with anyone else. And so it's just an awesome feeling, so exciting. And to see all the girls' hard work come like to this, it's just awesome.

Anthony Godfrey:
So you were players at Herriman, and you won the state title there. And in 2019, which, because it was pre-pandemic feels like prehistoric to me. That was not long after lacrosse had been sanctioned, probably. So tell me about the timeline.

Coach:
Yeah, so 2019, it was actually the year before it got sanctioned.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay.

Corch:
So that was when they still had like the divisions. So you'd have Division 1, Division 2, Division 3 championship instead of having it by class. 6A, 5A, 4A. And so we were Division 1 state champions, which was awesome. Played Park City. So yeah, that was kind of this timeline there. Then 2020 is when it got sanctioned. And word on the street was we were going to go back-to-back, but we'll never know. We'll never know.

Anthony Godfrey:
We'll nev