Jarod Opperman / The Bulletin file photoSummit's Christina Edwards was named female prep soccer player of the year Monday at the Oregon Sports Awards.

Another Summit High athlete will be playing NCAA Division I women’s soccer in Arizona, as the Storm’s Christina Edwards announced on Twitter this week her commitment to play at Arizona State next year.

Edwards, a forward who helped Summit claim its third straight Class 5A state championship last fall, said she opted for the Sun Devils over Colorado College, a Mountain West Conference program based in Colorado Springs.

“I honestly thought high school soccer was going to be it for me just because the big schools that I wanted to go to, and most other schools, they were done with their (class of) 2016 recruits about two years ago,” Edwards said in a phone call Thursday.

In accepting a partial scholarship to Arizona State in Tempe, Edwards, last season’s 5A player of the year, will join former Summit players Rachel and Hayley Estopare, sisters who both currently play at Arizona, and Oregon’s Kristen Parr in the Pac-12. Bend High graduate Maryn Beutler also plays for the Ducks.

“It’s just a huge relief,” Edwards told The Bulletin. “The amount of time I just cried with relief (Wednesday), just knowing that these past two years and past 10 years have just been hard work is finally paying off, it’s finally said and done. I’m just extremely grateful. I had no idea that I could go Pac-12. It was very shocking. But that’s what makes me so grateful.”

—Bulletin staff report