Monica Wood had a record-setting season for the Palmerton girls soccer team.

She set the record for most goals in a season and also finished her career with 114 goals, another school record.Her ability to put quite a few "W's" on record for the Lady Bombers helped her to be named the 2015 Times News Girls Soccer Player of the Year.When asked what she'll remember the most from her senior season, it wasn't the game against Pen Argyl where she scored four times, one of which was her 100th career goal.It was her last-minute winning goal against Northern Lehigh to clinch a District 11 postseason playoff berth for her team."I won't forget the game against Northern Lehigh," she said. "It went back and forth. They scored, we scored; they scored, we scored. With like 20 seconds left, I said 'Oh my God, this game is going into overtime,' so I just took the ball and just tried to pass everybody and we scored. I wanted it so bad since it was the game we needed for districts. Otherwise we had no chance."Setting a single-season scoring record was a big accomplishment when you consider that Wood was often double and triple-teamed by opponents."It was hard since I was double or triple-teamed most of the games," Wood said. "But I think that allowed for us to move around a lot more."My coach (Nate Petrosky) knew that was going to happen, so he gave me free rein to move around as much as I could so that we could open up new spots for the other players to move into, so we tried to use it to our advantage as much as possible."Wood, a four-year starter for the Blue Bombers, started her soccer career when she was 5 years old in the Towamensing Soccer Club.Later on, at age 11, she played for the Carbon United. When she isn't playing for her high school team, she plays midfield for Keystone Athletics' 17U premier team.Despite playing all year round, Wood still gives Petrosky credit for helping get her game to the level it is today."Especially, last year," Wood said of her coach's help. "It was really crucial. Last year, we were weak mentally. Actually, he helped all of us pull through as players."Individually, he helped me to be a better leader. He taught me how to talk to the girls. When he took over, we had no confidence in ourselves, and he talked to us, and that's what we really needed."The Division I recruit, headed to continue her career at New Jersey Institute of Technology, has abilities that opposing coaches have witnessed and will be happy that she won't be on the Palmerton roster next season."She has solid ball control skills, which stands out when you see her cut around defenders," Petrosky said. "She turns up the speed a notch and is a lot quicker than you might think. She never puts her head down and she'll run through opponents to set up a scoring chance."She loves the game so much that she goes far and beyond where she has to go to fine-tune her skills."As far as the records go, Wood said it's exciting because it's something that she hadn't expected. And she's proud that it did happen so her accomplishments can be part of the trophy case that lines the high school lobby."I owe it to the girls that were always by my side and never quit," she said. "I could pick out so many girls on my team that supported me," said Wood."My two co-captains, Kendra Pekurny and Johanna Matsko were really important to me as friends and teammates my whole career."One thing is for sure, you haven't heard the last about Wood's soccer career.Stay tuned.