Page 17 - Priorities #12 2000-April

High School Girls Soccer had a strong season despite a series of injuries that kept key players sidelined.
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The High School Boys Soccer team had their best season since entering the more competitive Private School Athletic League, ending the season in a second place tie. They would have been headed for CCS playoffs except for a technical decision that sent Valley Dublin instead. VD eventually won Division 3. Paddy Sullivan, League MVP, has another life as a musician and is pictured on pages 22-23 chatting with drummer Jim Cowan. Paddy plays with a jazz and rock group and often accompanies Troubadors, Priory’s chapel singers.
Basketball Top-Scorer Bobby Christian:
A Quiet But Powerful Presence
This year’s Varsity basketball team garnered extra attention thanks to Priory junior, Bobby Christian. Averaging 26.5 points a game, and scoring 30 points or more in eight games, Christian was this year’s leading scorer in the Central Coast Section - the first Priory athlete ever to achieve that distinction.
Thanks to his standout play this season, as well as profiles in both the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury, Bobby, who lives in Los Gatos, has become quite well known throughout the Central Coast Section. His teachers and fellow students at the Priory, though, know there’s a lot more to Bobby than just basketball.
Although he’s played basketball competitively for seven years, Bobby loves all kinds of sports. He’s been on Priory’s Varsity soccer and volleyball teams since his Freshman year, and has also
participated in track and baseball. For Bobby, though, sports doesn’t end on the field. His hobbies include collecting sports cards, reading five different sports magazines a month, and reading the sports pages of newspapers from all around the country. Bobby also enjoys bowling, and confesses to enjoying Monday night big-time wrestling on TV!
Bobby’s future goals include, no big surprise, a career
in journalism...preferably as a sportswriter. To get a head start and some experience, he initiated and is editor of the campus’s first sports newsletter - Priory Sports Update. Not only does the newsletter give him a chance to practice his future craft, but he also hopes it provides more in-depth coverage and generates more enthusiasm for all of the sports teams.
He’d also like to pursue coaching. He has enjoyed helping to coach his middle school’s eighth grade girls team as well as his younger brother’s rec teams. College plans are for a small school in the Northeast, where he intends to play basketball.
Bobby is often asked why he chose to attend Priory, knowing
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