This spring, wide receiver Cristian Dixon will be graduating from the University of Michigan. Dixon was a former Mater Dei stand out, making 35 receptions for 611 yards and six touchdowns in his junior year.
Imagine waking up on New Year’s Day to jump on the football team charter bus of your dream school: The University of Alabama. The charter bus traveled to the Grandaddy of Them All, the College Football Playoff (CFP) Semifinals at the Rose Bowl. That was the life of early enrollee safety Peyton Woodyard of St. John Bosco in Bellflower, CA.
Mater Dei junior, Jada Ward, has been playing for the Varsity girls water polo team since she was a freshman. Despite her youth, Ward had the experience to battle against teenage opponents.
For the second year in a row, the Blazers of Sierra Canyon took home the CIF Southern Section Open Division Final title in a classic 59-48 win over the Mater Dei Monarchs on Friday at the Pyramid in Long Beach.
That day has arrived. Green-Warren, a senior from Nathaniel Narbonne High School in Harbor City, formally announced this week that he was chosen for the All-Star game, played in San Antonio. He will be the sole representative from the California Interscholastic Federation’s Los Angeles City Section, containing more than 150 high schools that ranks as one of the state’s five largest groups of athletic teams.
Mater Dei’s McKnight to pilot Southern Section
Known as the “LeBron James before LeBron James,” Schea Cotton was one of the greatest high school basketball players to come out of Los Angeles in the same class as Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett.
Hawkins has a 5-0 start, the best out of any team in the Coliseum league this season so far.
High school junior Chris Green Jr. plays nose guard for one of the top high schools in the state of California. The Mater Dei Monarchs (10-3 overall) is in the Trinity League and in the Pac-5 division. Schools like St. John Bosco (13-1 overall) and J. Serra Catholic school (7-3 overall) are in both leagues. All three schools are in the top 25 of state rankings, according to Max Preps. “You play against the best talent in–what I would say–in California,” said Green. “In the Pac-5, you constantly every week want to play someone good.” Along with athletic skills,