Page 22 - Priorities #19 2002-July

Athletes
Spring Sports Highlights
Priory retired the volleyball jerseys of seniors Francesca Centofanti and Cassie Perret. Only two other Priory athletes have been so honored—Ramero Arredondo in soccer and Micki Oyler in basketball. Francesca’s and Cassie’s jerseys will be framed and displayedinthegymwiththeothertwo. Thecoachingstaffwilllookforasimilar way to visually recognize swimmer Trent Larsen.
The Boys Swimming Team finished second in the league, losing to Half Moon Bay High by just 20 points (in swimming, a very close margin). All ten swimmers qualified for the league championship finals.
Aswimming"first" forthePriory:TrentLarsenwasCentralCoastSection(CCS) championinthe100Backstrokeand200IndividualMedley. Histimemayqualify him for All-American (see the note under his photo.)
The Prioryswimmingrelayteam—Trent,Mark,WilliamHuangandMikeRuiz— placed first and broke the league record in the 400 freestyle relay event.
The golf team participated in the PSAL league championships and player John Schultz qualified for CCS competition.
Girls Water Polo will be added to the Priory’s athletics schedule next year. Softball and baseball nextyearwilladvancefromjuniorvarsitytovarsityteamstatus.
Priory Middle School teams brought in these championships:
Seventh Grade Girls Basketball—Small Schools Intermediate League (SSIL) Champions and MPRD (Mid-Peninsula Recreation District) Champions Seventh Grade Boys Basketball—SSIL Champions
Golf Team—SSIL Champions
Boys Soccer—SSIL Champions
Eighth Grade Boys Basketball — MPRD Championship
Girls Soccer—Second place in SSIL
All League Athletes
Boys Varsity Swimming
Trent Larsen—First Team Mark Simmons—First Team William Huang—First Team Mike Ruiz—Second Team Wes Bennicas—Second Team
Boys Varsity Volleyball
Pablo Avalos—Second Team Peter Trudelle—Hon. Mention Ray Austin—Hon. Mention
Boys Tennis
Ben Archer—Hon. Mention
Three Stars from the Class of 2002 Move On
Cassie Perret
Volleyball
• Team MVP, 2000 and one of High School Athletes of the Year, 2001 and 2002
• PSAL First Team, Volleyball, 2000 and 2001
• PSAL MVP, 2000 and 2001 • San Mateo County First Team All County 2000
and 2001
• San Mateo County MVP
2001
• San Jose Mercury First Team, 2001 •StateChampionship DivisionVMVP,2000and2001 •Tied Division V record for number of kills (22) and
set all divisions record for number of blocks(10)
during the 2000 State Championship match. •StateChampionshipDiv.V Sportsmanship/ CitizenshipAward,2000and2001 (Thefirstplayerever to achieve this State Championship record.)
Trent
Larsen
Swimming
• Team MVP, 2000, 2001 and 2002
• PSAL First Team, 2001 and 2002
Currently holds four league championships, is record holder, and is
undefeated in the league. (No league swimmer has ever beaten Trent in any stroke.)
• A member of the relay team that set a PSAL record in 2001 and a CIF record in 2002.
• CCS qualifier '99-'02, finalist '00-'02, winner '02
• All-American consideration in 2001 and 2002 (2002 results not available at press time.)
Francesca Centofanti
Volleyball
• Team MVP, 2000, Athletic Director’s Award 2002 •PSAL MVP1999 •FirstTeamAllSanMateoCounty 2000and2001 • PSAL First Team 1999, 2000, 2001 • All Team State Championship Game, 2000 • WPS Female Athlete of the Year 1999