Davenport North soccer standout Yousif Alallaf wins Spotlight Athlete of the Week

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Davenport North soccer standout Yousif Alallaf was voted Spotlight Athlete of the Week. The senior had 12 goals and 11 assists during a historic season for the Wildcats.

“He jumps the fence every single day works out on this field every single day even when he’s not supposed to and what he does is he treats his body right he does everything to get to that peak performance” said North head coach David Gamble.

“To finally see everything come together for him his senior year, first team all conference ready to go you know it’s been a lot of hard work on his end and that’s why he’s deserving of this” he said.

Alallaf helps North make it to State for the first time in program history.

“The thing I enjoy most is that we did everything like a family you know we didn’t have the best start to our season but as we grew into the season” said Alallaf.

“We all loved each other we fought really hard for like this badge and we just did this together like it wasn’t really one person doing it it was all together and every time we did that we you know showed our level against big teams” he said.