Lake City senior Courtny Hanson had the vision of becoming a mentor to her younger sister, Kylie, when she started her freshman year of high school this fall.

Same school, same girls soccer team, same Timberwolves mascot.

Then, something funny happened on the way to registration.

Kylie became a Coeur d'Alene Viking.

When the teams played earlier this year under the lights of the Lake City High football field, Lake City beat Coeur d'Alene 4-1 on Courtny's senior night.

"It was really fun," said Courtny, a forward. "I always thought I'd be playing with her on my senior night because she'd be going to Lake City too. But she switched plans. It's actually a lot cooler this way because nobody else will get to have that experience."

Kylie, a midfielder, said she'd always wanted to go to Coeur d'Alene High.

"I went to Canfield Middle School, so all of my friends were going to Coeur d'Alene High," Kylie said. "I've always wanted to come here over Lake City."

In the same school, Courtny could make sure things were going well for Kylie during classes.

"It's tough because I can't keep my eye on her over there," Courtny said. "I thought I'd be mentoring her when she came in as a freshman because we'd be on the same team. It's just kind of cool that it worked out this way."

Courtny and her family moved to California for her sophomore year, and she rejoined Lake City for her junior year.

"I'd transferred middle schools in eighth grade, so I wasn't close with anyone from either school anymore," Courtny said. "So I just picked one when I got back and ended up loving it."

Often times, the Hanson sisters will find themselves talking about soccer, not necessarily their match.

"We talk soccer all the time," Courtny said. "It totally comes up all the time."

On the way back from Lake City's 6-0 win at Moscow, Courtny texted her sister to see how Coeur d'Alene's match went at Lewiston - a 2-1 loss that moved the Timberwolves alone in first place in the league.

"I texted her to ask what the score was so I could tell the team that we were first in the league," Courtny said.

"It gets kind of competitive in the house," Kylie said. "We're always teasing at each other saying we're going to win over the other one. We never really talk about when we play together."

At school, it's kind of the same way.

"There's definitely a lot of people asking if it's weird that I'm playing against my sister," Kylie said. "I'll say yeah, but we really don't go against each other on the field. But there's definitely a rivalry between the two schools."

"It really hasn't come up at practice," Coeur d'Alene coach Andy Vredenburg said. "Kylie just takes it as another game. She wants to go out and win every game. It really hasn't come up surprisingly."

When both have a match the same day, it can cause their parents to have to pick and choose where to be and when.

"There's several occasions where they've got a 4:30 home game," said Jim Hanson, the girls father. "So (the girls mom) Trish and I will split halves, where one will be here and the other there and we'll switch it up at halftime and sometimes enlist the grandparents to do the same. But we try and make it to as many games as we can."

Both Hansons play club soccer, with Courtny playing for the Spokane Shadow, as well as the Coeur d'Alene Sting this past season. Kylie competes with the Washington Premier team in Seattle.

And no matter how hard she tried, Courtny couldn't convince Kylie to come to Lake City.

"I did for a while, but then just gave up on it," Courtny said. "She's going to do what she's going to do, and it turned out really cool."

"She kept telling me how I should come to Lake City and had been telling her coach Matt (Ruchti) about me," Kylie said. "But she's my older sister and she wants me to go where she is."

"Courtny had mentioned to me that all of her friends were Coeur d'Alene (High) kids," Lake City coach Matt Ruchti said. "So she assumed she'd go there and we've joked about it here and there."

Courtny has six goals and an assist for Lake City thus far in the season.

"Courtny's a great kid and worked hard to be in the position she's in," Ruchti said. "

She was even considering not playing soccer this year.

"She's overcame some obstacles and she had in her mind that she wasn't going to play this year," Ruchti said. "The week before tryouts, she called me to think she thought she'd made the wrong choice. I told her we make choices like that, and you're always welcome back and she's came back and been an integral part of what we do."

Kylie has scored four goals for the Vikings this season.

"She's meant a lot to our program," Vredenburg said. "She came in as a freshmen and has earned an important role on the team. She's got a great touch on the ball and vision on the field. She knows how to make plays and has definitely earned

For Courtny, whenever this season ends, it will be her last as she's not planning on playing soccer in college.

"This is it for me," Courtny said. "She (Kylie) will probably play in college. She's a very talented player."

Instead, Courtny will focus on some of her hobbies, including photography and art.

"I'm really into photography," Courtny said. "I've actually done some senior photos for some people and gotten paid for it, which was kind of cool. I kind of like all kinds of artsy stuff."

She plans to attend a four-year school to major in marketing or advertising.

First things first as both teams are still in the state tournament hunt, with Lake City beating Coeur d'Alene 2-1 last Saturday at Coeur d'Alene High. With Tuesday's draw at Post Falls, Lake City is the No. 1 seed to the Region 1 tournament, with Coeur d'Alene the third. Should both win on Saturday, they'll meet again in the regionals championship game.

Now if both Lake City and Coeur d'Alene advanced to the state tournament in Idaho Falls?

"It would be insanely cool because it would only be my second time going down there and her first," Courtny said. "If we played against each other in Idaho Falls, it would be really cool for us and our parents."

"I think it will be really fun," Kylie said. "We'd be against each other in the same place, but it's still a cool rivalry."