CHATTER: MCELROY COMPLETES PERFECT YEAR IN TEXAS.Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News Greg McElroy, a former Northridge resident who attended Pomelo pomelo (pŏm`əlō'): see grapefruit. Elementary School, played Little League baseball in West Hills and youth football with the Chatsworth Chiefs, quarterbacked Carroll High of Southlake, Texas, to the Class 5A state title with a 16-0 record. Carroll, the top-ranked team in the country according to Student Sports and MaxPreps.com and No. 2 in USA Today's Super 25, defeated previously unbeaten Katy 34-20 in Saturday's final at Texas Stadium in Arlington. The win was Carroll's 32nd in a row; the school is 63-1 the past four years. McElroy, ranked as the No. 11 pro-style quarterback in the country by Rivals.com, has passed for more than 50 touchdowns and 4,300 yards. He has committed to Texas Tech. --Desiree Stone's 6-4, 6-0 victory over Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). of Pacific Palisades' Katy Nikolova in last week's City Section girls' tennis singles final was watched by a record crowd at Balboa Sports Complex in Encino, according to assistant commissioner Cheryl Barkovich. One person Stone was glad to see in attendance was former North Hollywood teammate and 2003 City quarterfinalist Marsha Clever, who was on her holiday break from UC San Diego. Stone, who has committed to UC Davis, considered Clever her role model during her first two years on varsity, and they were instrumental in leading the Huskies to the City semifinals in 2003. Clever made sure to wait around until the awards presentation, when Stone was also presented with the City's sportsmanship award. ``She lived up to that responsibility and she emerged as a leader on and off the court,'' Clever said. ``She's matured a lot as a player and a person. It's really amazing that she's secured a full Div. I scholarship. She's pushed herself in academics as well, and she's won two (City) championships. That says a lot.'' --Three local products - UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX backup goalie Kelsey Davis (Thousand Oaks High), Cal defender Courtney Hooker (Chaminade of West Hills) and Notre Dame midfielder Ashley Jones (Westlake) - are among 30 players coach Tim Schulz has called in for the U.S. under-20 women's soccer team's Jan. 2-10 camp at Home Depot Center in preparation for the Jan. 18-27 CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer) CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) qualifying tournament in Veracruz, Mexico. Others on the list include UCLA goalie Valerie Henderson and midfielders Danesha Adams and Christina DiMartino; USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. defender Meagan Holmes, midfielder Stacey Strong and forward Amy Rodriguez; and Indianapolis high-schooler Lauren Cheney, a forward who has committed to UCLA. --Former San Fernando High standout Edgar Barajas, a fixture on U.S. youth national soccer teams, and Thousand Oaks High's Chance Myers were selected to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America 2005 Boys' Youth All- America team. --Shanna Sarris, who guided El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
--Crespi High of Encino's boys' soccer team is one of 135 across the U.S. that won the NSCAA NSCAA National Soccer Coaches Association of America (since 1941; Mission, Kansas) NSCAA National Small College Athletic Association Academic Award. The Celts' team GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted last season was 3.65. --Two Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. women's soccer players from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. were singled out for their academic achievements. Forward Meghan McIntosh is an NSCAA College Division Scholar All-American second-team selection, and defender Lindsey Kimura is a second-team choice on ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network The Magazine's Academic All-America team. McIntosh, an Encino resident who attended Brentwood School, carries a 3.56 GPA with a molecular and cell biology major. Kimura, a former Harvard-Westlake of Studio City standout, has a 3.71 GPA with a major in public health. --Agoura High baseball player Andrew Pevsner, a left-handed pitcher, committed to Johns Hopkins. Scott French and Heather Gripp contributed. Erik Boal, (818) 713-3607 erik.boal(at)dailynews.com |
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