There are a lot of state soccer champions in the Durost family this year.
Coaching brothers Jeremy and Scott Durost each led their teams to a state title on Saturday, and each did so alongside a co-captain daughter.
Savannah Durost is a co-captain of the Class D champion Penobscot Valley Howlers and Lyndsie Durost is a co-captain of the 8-person champion Bangor Christian Patriots.
Jeremy Durost has now coached the Penobscot Valley Howlers to three straight Class D girls titles, and despite a season-ending injury this year, his daughter and senior co-captain Savannah Durost has been a central piece of that dominant run.
And now, two more members of the Durost family are soccer state champions.
Scott Durost, Jeremy’s older brother, led the Bangor Christian girls soccer team to the 8-person state title on the same day. One of the team’s on-the-field leaders is senior co-captain Lyndsie Durost, Scott’s daughter. This was Scott Durost’s first season as head coach after previously serving as an assistant for the Patriots squad.
“You can’t ask for more of a special moment, than to have that win, but also share it with your daughter,” Jeremy Durost said on Saturday after the Howlers beat Ashland 2-0 to claim the Class D crown.
He was not only appreciative of the moment that he and his daughter shared, but his brother and niece as well.
“I’m so happy for him. I’m so happy for my niece Lyndsie, and her team,” Jeremy Durost said. “And they definitely deserve it. I’ve watched them this year — they’re a great team.”
The Bangor Christian team beat Wisdom 3-0 on Saturday to claim the 8-person state championship and finished with a perfect 18-0 record.
Penobscot Valley finished the season 13-2-2. Jeremy Durost said he and his brother would check in with each other constantly throughout the season, and had their teams scrimmage each other during the preseason.
“Every single game day, he’s wishing me luck and I’m wishing him luck,” Jeremy Durost said.
Asked which of them is the better coach, Jeremy Durost gave the credit to his older brother.
The Penobscot Valley and Bangor Christian teams competed against each other in recent years, until the Patriots moved to the 8-person division this season.
“I’m a little more competitive than him because he always wins,” Scott Durost, then a Bangor Christian assistant, told TV station WABI last year. “We’re 0-6 against him in the last two-and-a-half years, but who’s counting? Me.”
If anyone’s still counting, the Durost family now has four state champions in just this season alone.
