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Athletes of the Week

Posted January 08, 2020

Annika Decker
Pinewood basketball

The junior point guard started the week being named the MVP of the St. Francis Holiday Classic, scoring 23 points in the title game. She added 15 points and six rebounds in a win over Carondelet.

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Christian Corcoran
Menlo soccer

The junior forward scored twice, including the tying goal in the second half in a 2-2 tie with North Salinas on Saturday. He also had two goals and an assist in a 5-0 win over Harbor on Thursday.

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Honorable Mention

Caroline Barclay

Sacred Heart Prep basketball

Una Jovanovic *

Pinewood basketball

Avery Lee *

Menlo basketball

Maeia Makoni

Menlo basketball

Carly Martin

Palo Alto basketball

Courtni Thompson

Pinewood basketball

Calvin Cai

Gunn wrestling

Spencer Lin

Menlo-Atherton basketball

Matt Marzano *

Palo Alto basketball

Isaiah Minor

Woodside basketball

David Ruiz

Woodside soccer

Nick Tripaldi

Menlo-Atherton basketball

* Previous Winner

Previous Weeks

January 01, 2020
(Avery Lee/Cole Kastner)

December 25, 2019
(Anna Smith/Matt Marzano)

December 18, 2019
(Aniyah Augmon/Cole Kastner)

December 11, 2019
(Una Jovanovic/Jai Deshpande)

December 04, 2019
(Kyra Pretre/David Ajanaku-Makun)

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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