Nov 28, 2025
Picture by Samantha Davis: Carter Therkilsen coasts into the top zone for the game-winning landing throughout the Part 2 9-player soccer championship recreation in opposition to Wabasso at Lakeview Excessive College in Cottonwood on Oct. 31.
LAMBERTON — To say that Carter Therkilsen has had a fantastic soccer profession with the Purple Rock Central Falcons can be a large understatement.
With two state match journeys in 4 seasons and an abundance of yards and touchdowns alongside the best way, the 5-foot-9, 195-pound senior operating again hasn’t let anybody cease him from jotting his identify down atop the report books.
Every week throughout his prep soccer profession, opposing coaches knew their recreation plan would all the time be centered round slowing down the elusive operating again, however by no means stopping him.
“My motivation might be simply the love of the sport,” Therkilsen mentioned. “Soccer’s been my go-to factor ever since I used to be actually little and I’m simply actually aggressive. If I can discover a approach to get higher, I’m gonna try this and attempt to make myself and the group higher every single day.”
Therkilsen did make himself higher annually, one thing that helped him rack up a college report variety of yards and touchdowns on the bottom. For his profession, Therkilsen completed with the RRC information in yards dashing (7,286), landing rushes (73) and carries (984).
His senior season of soccer was additionally his greatest one but as he set the college’s single-season report in yards dashing (2,721), dashing touchdowns (31) and carries (288).
“It’s fairly wonderful,” Therkilsen mentioned when reflecting on his record-setting profession. “Simply from all of the exhausting work from not solely me, however our whole group has put in over the past variety of years and the fellows I’ve performed with and the system I’m in. It’s simply a tremendous accomplishment and one thing that I’ll take with me the remainder of my life.”
The Falcons ended this season with a 44-14 loss to the Hills-Beaver Creek Patriots on Nov. 6 within the first spherical of the 9-Participant State Soccer Match.
The Patriots went on to win the state championship 46-22 over Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, however like numerous groups earlier than, they had been nonetheless unable to maintain Therkilsen from making his mark as he completed that first-round recreation with 193 yards and a rating on 34 carries.
Therkilsen additionally made it to state with the Falcons as a freshman in 2022. RRC misplaced its first-round matchup to Wheaton Herman Norcross, however Therkilsen’s growth right into a feared identify on the gridiron didn’t occur straight away and it didn’t come with out the assistance of his teammates.
“They had been each unbelievable runs with some unbelievable teammates,” Therkilsen mentioned. “That freshman yr, I used to be sort of coming into a brand new group of men that I hadn’t actually performed an entire lot with. They put the work in and I obtained to reap the advantages of that, whereas the final one, I performed with this group of men and have been enjoying for lots of years, and we put the work in collectively and all of us obtained to see the advantages. I assumed that was actually cool. That freshman run, I obtained to study quite a bit from the older guys.”
Whereas he missed a few video games throughout his sophomore season with an ankle damage, Therkilsen’s profession filled with success has come resulting from his sturdiness and consciousness.
“Ensuring that we’re in good condition, lifting weights, staying sturdy, staying versatile,” he mentioned. “I strive to not get into too many positions that may be up unhealthy, in the event you’ve obtained to exit of bounds and play one other play. Simply ensuring we’re making the sensible selections on and off the sphere.”
As his soccer profession at RRC got here to an finish by the hands of the eventual state champs, Therkilsen knew an enormous chapter of his life had been accomplished, however he nonetheless wished extra.
“When that clock expired, it was … a pair issues run via my head,” Therkilsen mentioned. “That was the final time I used to be going to have the ability to ever play a recreation of soccer with that group of men and I’ve been enjoying with them since fourth grade, in order that was exhausting. After which yearly after the soccer season, that’s my factor, so I’m sort of all the time trying to the subsequent one, and now with that being the final, I sort of need extra. However I’m proud of the best way we performed all yr and I couldn’t ask for a bunch of higher guys.”
As for wanting extra, Therkilsen mentioned he’s at the moment protecting his faculty choices open however has expressed curiosity in persevering with his soccer profession on the subsequent stage.
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