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Athletes of the Week

Posted December 04, 2019

Kyra Pretre
Menlo cross country

The senior was the fastest local runner across all divisions, helping the Knights finish in second place as a team at the CIF state Division IV championship last weekend at Woodward Park in Fresno.

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David Ajanaku-Makun
Priory basketball

The junior forward scored 24 points, which included a pair of 3-pointers, and the Panthers opened their season with a 79-45 victory over Nueva, which played in the CCS Division V finals last year.

Honorable Mention

Elizabeth Fetter

Palo Alto cross country

Tevah Gevelber

Castilleja cross country

Alexandra McCusker

Menlo cross country

Mikayla Silverman *

Gunn wrestling

Anna Smith *

Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Nicolette Yeh

Menlo-Atherton basketball

Dylan Bernard

Woodside soccer

Jack Hakeman

Gunn basketball

Kaden Holdbrook

Gunn basketball

Calvin Katz

Menlo cross country

Kamran Murray *

Menlo cross country

Zach Zafran

Priory basketball

* Previous Winner

Previous Weeks

November 27, 2019
(Brynn Brady, CC Golub/Katherine Sung)

November 20, 2019
(Addie Ahlstrom/Kevin Cullen)

November 13, 2019
(Odeya Russo/Kamran Murray)

November 06, 2019
(Sydney Sung/Jake Tsotadze)

October 30, 2019
(Bella Bachler/Eitan Smolyar)

October 23, 2019
(Cooper McKenna/Phillip Doan)

October 16, 2019
(Minhee Chung/Samson Axe)

October 09, 2019
(Natalie Grover/Troy Franklin)

October 02, 2019
(Lauren Sung/Noah Housenbold)

September 25, 2019
(Charlotte Tomkinson/Colin Giffen)

September 18, 2019
(Elena Radeff, Millie Muir/Eitan Smolyar)

September 11, 2019
(Megan Norris/Danny Peters)

September 04, 2019
(Addie Ahlstrom/Teddy Purcell)

May 22, 2019
(Kyra Pretre, Charlotte Tomkinson/Julien Hernandez)

May 15, 2019
(Sarah Snyder/Jared Freeman)

May 08, 2019
(Milan Hilde-Jones/Aidan Everett)

May 01, 2019
(Sarah Snyder/Owen Crevelt)

April 24, 2019
(Alexandra Chan/Max Reyes)

April 17, 2019
(Emma Sloan/Justin Nam)

April 10, 2019
(Genna Gibbons/Jared Freeman)

April 03, 2019
(Emma Briger, Ingrid Corrigan/Nathan Fleischli)

March 27, 2019
(Sara Osterberg/Aidan Everett)

March 20, 2019
(Leiney Paul/Jared Freeman)

March 13, 2019
(Avery Lee/Dean Casey)

March 06, 2019
(Coco Layton/Andrei Volgin)

February 27, 2019
(Folashade Akinola/Isaiah Saams-Hoy)

February 20, 2019
(Evelyn Calhoon, Lauren McDonnell/Abby Ericson, Folashade Akinola)

February 13, 2019
(Klara Astrom/Timothy Waymouth)

February 06, 2019
(Sharon Nejad/Andrew Wang)

January 30, 2019
(Mina Tameilau/Liam Johnson)

January 23, 2019
(Hannah Jump/Raymond Reece)

January 16, 2019
(Catie Cassani/Joshua Meyers)

January 09, 2019
(Avery Lee/Charlie Williams)


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