Clayton was well represented in post-season awards for fall athletic performance.

On the girls’ side, junior Carly Cassity was selected for the Post-Dispatch second team all-metro.  Cassity and doubles partner Caroline Greenberg finished third in state.  Cassity was also selected an all-metro athlete a year ago.

“I’m honored to be recognized,” Cassity said. “It means a lot to be up there as one of the top players in the metro area.  It’s a great group of players that get recognized and I am just glad to be up there with them.”

Junior football players David Neville and Tyler Walker were recognized at the regional and state level.  Both were named to the Post Dispatch third team all-metro defense.   In the all-state poll voted by sportswriters, Walker was selected on the second team all state and Neville to the first-team.

Neville said that he was just as “honored” to receive the accolade of third team all-metro as first team all-state because it compared him to other athletes that compete in a different class.  The state rankings are based off the class that the school competes in, whereas the Post-Dispatch selects the all-metro athletes regardless of the class of the school the athlete attends.

Walker, who was also recognized last season as an all-metro athlete, echoed Neville’s words.

“It’s pretty cool,” Walker said. “You take pride in being recognized as being one of the best players in Missouri.”

Neville spoke for himself, Walker and Cassity, all juniors, when he said that it was a “goal to be first team all-metro next year.”

Soccer forward and senior Charlie Harned was also named first team all-state in the coaches’ poll.  Harned looks to pursue his athletic talents at the collegiate level next year, whether that is in soccer or basketball.