Student Athlete of the Week: Kyli Bixon
Serra senior running back Kyli Bixon has played several sports, but her favorite has been flag football. The Cavaliers recently won the Girls Flag Football League of Champions Super Bowl.
Serra senior running back Kyli Bixon has played several sports, but her favorite has been flag football. The Cavaliers recently won the Girls Flag Football League of Champions Super Bowl.
Sophomore Jadyn Harris is an outside hitter and opposite hitter for the Heritage Christian girls volleyball team. Harris noted how the team maintained great connections with each other on the court throughout the season.
Isaiah Harris is a multisport athlete at Washington Prep. He is a wide receiver, wing, and sprinter with plans of also playing baseball.
West L.A. College freshman sprinter Arnell Golden is putting in the work to become an Olympian. This season, he wants to work on his aggression on the track.
During his first year playing varsity, Los Angeles high school junior Shawn Pringle took on the onus of being the quarterback for the Romans. In the 10 games they played, Pringle made 60 passes for 1494 yards and 19 touchdowns.
West Los Angeles College track and field athlete Chandler Smith has been competing in sprints since an early age. At six years old, she started playing tennis but seeing her brother compete in track piqued her interest in the sport.
Carter Morgan enjoys sprinting and has the skills to compete in elite track meets. Over the summer, he was a contender in the 7-8 100m and 200m events and he also competed in the javelin throw.
Grad student middle blocker Kalyah Williams has made positive contributions to the USC women’s volleyball team. This is her first season with USC after spending her undergrad years competing for Washington State.
Jalen Hill, who played basketball at UCLA for three seasons until leaving last year for personal reasons, has died, according to his family and the university. He was 22.
Senior linebacker Shane Lee transferred to USC with the hope to help change the culture of their football team and bring them back into the national spotlight. Now, the Trojans are ranked seventh in the AP Top 25 College Football Poll with a 3-0 overall record.
Serra senior catcher Nigel Buckley knew that baseball was the sport for him at the age of 12.
Recent Dorsey graduate Harrison Allen used his raw talent in baseball to pitch for the Dorsey Dons. Last fall, he helped the Dons football team earn a 10-3 overall record and a 5-0 Coliseum League record to qualify them for the Division I playoffs.
During his sophomore year, Tamir Washington and his friend tried out for the boy’s rugby team at View Park high school on a whim.
In her first season of collegiate track competition, West L.A. track and field student athlete Angel Morris qualified for the state championship in the heptathlon.
Kaitlin Lewis is a junior scrum half of the View Park girls rugby team. Seeing the opportunities that her sister reaped from the program inspired her to join.