Orion Ostheimer Wins Gatorade Wyoming Soccer Player Of The Year

Following a big junior season that included a state championship, Buffalo goalkeeper Orion Ostheimer was named the 2024-25 Gatorade Wyoming Boys Soccer Player of the Year on Thursday. In its 40th year of honoring the best high school athletes in the nation, The Gatorade Company released this year’s award winner. Ostheimer is the third selection from Buffalo High School. He joins Joe Musselman (2019-20) and Kasey Esponda (2010-11).

Ostheimer led Buffalo to a 12-5 record and the 3A boys’ soccer state championship last month. The 5-11 junior keeper had a goals-against average of 0.63 and recorded 10 shutouts in the 2025 season. He turned back 47 of 57 shots. Orion was a first-team all-state honoree. He stopped three of the seven shootout kicks he faced. Two of those came in the championship match against Cody and were the difference in the Bison winning the 3A state title, 0-0, but 4-3 on penalty kicks. It was Buffalo’s first soccer crown since 2013.

Ostheimer has maintained a 3.79 weighted GPA in the classroom. A member of Johnson County 4-H, Buffalo Community Steel Drums, his school’s marching, pep, and concert bands, and choir, as well as his school’s Future Business Leaders of America club, Ostheimer represented Wyoming at the National Washington D.C. Close Up program this spring. Also, a member of the Bison golf, indoor track, and swim teams, he has volunteered locally on behalf of the Buffalo Recycling Center, Friends Feeding Friends, the Buffalo Baseball Association, St. Francis Animal Shelter, the Kids Christmas Shoppe, and the Clear Creek Middle School Beautification Project. He is also a member of his Summit Church youth group.

Buffalo head coach Dick Edgcomb pointed to Ostheimer’s work ethic as a big reason for his top-notch play.

“Orion dedicated himself to improvement this past year, attacking the weight room, playing all of the soccer that he could in club and indoor, and working out diligently with our team’s goaltender coach. His quickness, strength, and confidence have improved immensely. He has also turned himself into a vocal leader on the team.”

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This award recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field. It distinguishes Ostheimer as Wyoming’s best high school boys’ soccer player. He is now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year award, which will be announced later this month.

Orion joins recent Gatorade Wyoming Boys Soccer Players of the Year Teddy Opler (2023-24) of Jackson, Logan Custis of Cheyenne Central (2022-23), Charlie Hoelscher (2021-22) from Jackson, and Worland’s Cole Venable (2020-21), among the state’s list of former award winners.

As part of Gatorade’s commitment to breaking down barriers in sport, every Player of the Year also receives a grant to donate to a social impact partner. To date, the Gatorade Player of the Year program has provided more than $5.6 million in grants to winners across more than 2,000 organizations.

Information from a release by The Gatorade Company was used in this story.