You could say that Northwestern soccer player JD Haaf is a jack of all trades.

The same could be said for his head coach Nate Hunsicker.Hunsicker is in the middle of a basketball season as the Northwestern Middle School boys head coach. Haaf, meanwhile, recently won his first wrestling exhibition match after just picking up the sport this winter."It's definitely new, and it's weird getting used to," Haaf said days after the win. "But I like it. It keeps me in shape."Both Haaf's and Hunsicker's passion, though, comes on the pitch as members of the Northwestern soccer team. Hunsicker, the fifth-year coach, led the Tigers to their best season in program history. Haaf, the Tigers' unquestioned leader, produced a historic season individually as a goal-scoring menace.Northwestern finished the fall season 24-2, nearly producing an unblemished record en route to their Colonial League and District 11 Class AA championships, the first time Northwestern accomplished that feat. The success didn't stop there, as the Tigers won two games in the state tournament after never winning any in a prior season. (The team eventually lost to Lewisburg in the PIAA semifinals)."There is some pain, but we lost to the best team in the state," Haaf said. "In our eyes, we definitely should have been the runner-up. The top four teams in the state were in one side of the bracket."Before that run, much of the Tigers' season was smooth sailing. Northwestern went a perfect 12-0 in the Colonial League, then defeated Moravian Academy for the league title, followed by a 2-0 shutout over Salisbury in the district championship.Haaf was at the center of that memorable run that saw Northwestern come within a game of playing for a state championship. A three-year starter, Haaf slashed defenses and caused havoc for opposing teams to tally 46 goals and 16 assists in his senior season. That mark shattered the previous single season school record for goals scored by a dozen."It was definitely in the back of my mind," Haaf said. "But I felt like some games when I was thinking about that, it just didn't work out and I didn't play well ... When I wasn't thinking about it and thought about the team winning and everything, then those goals came."The statistics don't tell the entire story behind Haaf's importance to the Tigers."To me, the thing that stands out even more than the goals and the assists and all the statistics, was just the heart and drive that he played with," Hunsicker said. "And how complete of a player he was. At certain times we would move him back when we were trying to hold a lead and we didn't need to score anymore."Hunsicker went a step further with the praise he had for Haaf."In my opinion, the way he played this year is hands down the best I've seen anyone play in all facets of the game," Hunsicker said.While the 46 goals this fall were by far a school record, Haaf came up just one tally short of tying (and two of breaking) another mark - career goals scored. Still, he's not pondering the 'what if' questions."I feel like I definitely could have got it, but then again I'm a strong believer that everything happens for a reason," Haaf said.Haaf, who followed in the footsteps of his brothers Ralph and David, who both played soccer at Northwestern, started playing the sport at age three. He dropped baseball just before his teenage years to focus solely on soccer.He wants to play in college in the future and has a number of schools on his list, including Division II California University of Pennsylvania and Division III Chestnut Hill College. But his school of choice is Virginia Tech at the Division I level.With a number of showcases coming up for his club soccer team Lehigh Valley United, including one that is just wrapping up in Disney, Haaf is hoping to garner that collegiate attention. Regardless of his future, he's certainly left an imprint on the Lehigh Valley soccer scene.