Smartest Athletes at La Mesa, Spring Valley Schools? Girls Soccer Players

Led by the 4.35 grade-point average of senior Jaclyn Himmer, the Foothillers had 16 girls soccer players on the U-T San Diego All-Academic Team. 

As the Sunday listing noted:

The All-Academic Team honors juniors and seniors who participated in a California Interscholastic Federation-approved varsity sport and maintained a cumulative, weighted grade-point average of 3.0 or better.

The U-T and county Office of Education invited all CIF San Diego section schools to take part. Athletes with cumulative, weighted grade-point averages of 3.0 or better were listed—and will get certificates.

Some 3,613 student-athletes were honored in Sunday’s sports section, including 174 from Grossmont, Helix Charter, Monte Vista and Mount Miguel high schools.

Girls soccer players were the most plentiful on the list, with a combined 42 from the four schools.

In addition, there were 29 boys basketball players, 24 girls basketball players, 30 boys soccer players, 31 girls water polo players, and 18 wrestlers on the All-Academic Team lists. Helix boasted 12 girls water polo athletes on the list.

Monte Vista's girls basketball (10) and soccer (11) teams both had double-digit honorees. There were also 13 boys soccer and 12 boys basketball players on the list at Grossmont. Mount Miguel led the area with 7 wrestlers on the list.

Monte Vista junior basketball player Heather Bell had the highest GPA of all the athletes on the list, with a 4.76.

Here are the high-performing athletes and their GPAs (highest score on each team in bold):

BOYS BASKETBALL

Name School Year GPA John Barnes
Grossmont JR 3.97 Carl Blanchard
Grossmont JR 3.38 Adrian Foggiano
Grossmont JR 4.26 Ryan Green Grossmont SR 4.29 Rome Harris Grossmont JR 3.53 Jake Herrod Grossmont SR 3.44 Anthony Lawrence Grossmont JR 4.29 Thomas Lore Grossmont SR 3.25 Matthew Oropallo Grossmont JR 3.00 Balil Rahim Grossmont SR 3.17 Hunter Reed Grossmont JR 3.06 Austin Swisher Grossmont SR 4.06 Kyle Williams Grossmont JR 3.96 Christian Bell Helix JR 3.13 Derrick Chandler Helix SR 3.13 Xavier Jones Helix SR 3.04 William Mildenhall Helix SR 4.27 Alexander Wilbourn Helix JR 3.00 Jeremiah Wylie Helix JR 3.14 Titus Young Helix SR 3.17 Justin Brandy Monte Vista SR 3.93 Brendan Harris Monte Vista SR 3.85 Jameil Jackson Monte Vista JR 3.31 Jordan Jackson Monte Vista JR 3.82 Hasani Jarvis Monte Vista SR 3.02 Jose Jimenez Monte Vista SR 4.09 Maliek Johnson Monte Vista JR 3.34 Joshua Martinez Monte Vista JR 3.61 Lonnel Smith Monte Vista JR 3.09

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Name School Year GPA Danielle Davis
Grossmont SR 3.76 Lane Griffin
Grossmont JR 4.12 Carly Lopez
Grossmont JR 3.07 Bria Miller
Grossmont JR 3.41 Julia Naranja
Grossmont SR 3.07 Christina Valdez
Grossmont SR 3.67 Emani Carpenter
Helix
JR
3.00
Brittney Jones
Helix JR
3.58 Dominique Jones
Helix SR 3.38 Lisabella Lemusu
Helix JR 3.42 Fuafiva Pulu
Helix JR 3.73 Hayley Singer
Helix SR 3.59 Ashley Smith
Helix JR 3.41 Chanelle Ward
Helix SR 4.58 Heather Bell
Monte Vista
JR
4.76
 Jazmine Bradley
Monte Vista SR
3.49
Kayla Harrell
Monte Vista JR
4.53
Kayla Kulhanek
Monte Vista SR
4.62
Emma Pitoau
Monte Vista JR
3.13
Felicia Porter
Monte Vista SR
4.36
Deborah Saltzen
Monte Vista JR
3.31
Abigail Vargas
Monte Vista SR
3.13
Monica Williams
Monte Vista JR
4.63
Alexis Wittmann
Monte Vista SR
3.37

GIRLS SOCCER

Name School Year GPA Kayla Appenzeller Grossmont SR 3.45 Yvette Arriaga Grossmont JR 3.30 Heather Boette Grossmont JR 3.59 Danika Brown Grossmont SR
3.16
Kaytlan Camarero Grossmont JR
3.93
Emily Cervantes Grossmont JR
4.28
Carlye Chandler Grossmont JR
3.50
Ekta Geisinger Grossmont JR
3.67
Jaclyn Himmer Grossmont SR
4.35
Jamie Joseph Grossmont JR
3.76
Elora Kelsey Grossmont SR
3.65
Sarina Mazzone Grossmont SR
3.51
Lili Pingel Grossmont JR
3.87
Jerdawn Robinson Grossmont SR
3.02
Breanika Schwenkler Grossmont JR
4.03
Naomi Willey Grossmont JR 4.12 Santina Asimos Helix
JR
4.36
Breggie Coffey Helix SR
3.95
Teagan Gardner Helix JR
3.67
Tahjaneke Roberts Helix JR
3.30
Savannah Rucker Helix JR
4.58
Marina Tucker Helix SR
3.73
Morgan Turner Helix JR
4.09
Daylen Venegas Helix JR
3.79
Valeria Alonso Monte Vista JR
3.59
Zurisadai Benavides Monte Vista JR
3.31
Emma Demars Monte Vista SR
3.70
Vanessa Indie Monte Vista JR
3.03
Emily Lopez Monte Vista SR
4.66
Jennifer Lopez-Oliver Monte Vista SR
3.09
Dominica McComb Monte Vista SR 4.20 Brianna Medellin Monte Vista JR 3.48 Arlette Sanchez Monte Vista JR 3.16 Victoria Serna Monte Vista JR 3.13 Ashley Smith Monte Vista SR 3.17 Yessenia Alvarez-Cruz Mount Miguel SR 4.44 Bianka Edeza Mount Miguel JR 3.21 Joanna Gonzalez Mount Miguel SR 3.15 Miriam Rodriguez Mount Miguel JR 3.31 Nanci Romero Mount Miguel SR 3.00 Blerina Sahiti Mount Miguel SR 3.09 Samantha Zamora Mount Miguel JR 3.48

BOYS SOCCER

Name School Year GPA Tyler Adamos Grossmont
SR
4.20
Isaac Adams Grossmont JR
3.59
Jose Arce Grossmont JR
3.10
Gabriel Ayala Grossmont JR
3.39
Kevin Blunt Grossmont JR
4.06
Darren Brown Grossmont SR
4.04
Parker Brown Grossmont JR
4.70
Nathan Crummett Grossmont SR
3.60
Eric Gaspar Grossmont SR
3.70
Paul Hazlebeck Grossmont SR
3.95
Kyle Kennedy Grossmont JR
3.59
Elias Paraiso Grossmont JR
3.96
Jeffrey Tyssee Grossmont JR
4.33
Daniel Berhe Helix
SR
3.88
Allen Mauricio Taboada Helix SR
3.49
Irving Ruiz Helix JR
3.12
Alexander Salazar Helix SR
3.70
Josue Santoyo Helix SR
3.20
Bailey Vickers Helix JR
4.51
Hector Beltran-Aguirre Monte Vista
SR
3.41
Roy Cordova Monte Vista SR
3.02
Ali Jasim Monte Vista SR
3.07
Marcos Ortiz Monte Vista JR
3.49
Juan Preciado-Romo Monte Vista SR
3.62
Anthony Suarez Monte Vista SR
3.00
Noe Aguilar Mount Miguel
SR
3.56
Rex Carnes Mount Miguel SR 3.07 Raymond Cavalier Mount Miguel JR 3.39 Erick Espinoza Mount Miguel SR
3.77
David Michel Mount Miguel SR
3.05

GIRLS WATER POLO

Name School Year GPA Jacquelyn Espineli Grossmont
SR
4.73
Megan Haar Grossmont SR
3.79
Marisa Herrera Grossmont JR
4.33
Savanah Phillips Grossmont SR
3.12
Sophie Podeswik Grossmont SR
4.05
Alexa Potter Grossmont JR
3.80
Rachel Recksiedler Grossmont SR
4.30
Lissette Salazar Grossmont SR
3.67
Riley Swisher Grossmont JR
4.00
Shannon Wooldridge Grossmont JR
3.86
Gabriela Casillas Helix
JR
4.29
Lydia Insunza Helix SR
3.39
Montana Jackson Helix JR
4.00
Danielle Jaime Helix SR
3.27
Alexandra Johnson Helix JR
3.75
Molly Kaster Helix JR
3.50
Dayshia Lesueur Helix SR
3.50
Patricia Miller Helix JR
4.21
Krista Montgomery Helix SR
3.05
Victoria Nauman Helix SR
4.38
Yesenia Ortega Helix SR
4.44
Marcelle Ulloa Mendoza Helix SR
3.13
Nidya Iribe Monte Vista
JR
3.58
Reilly Rivino Monte Vista JR
4.13
Sierra Sliwa Monte Vista JR
3.20
Brittany Williams Monte Vista JR
3.87
Samantha Bautista Mount Miguel
JR
3.77
Jacqueline Jacome Mount Miguel JR 3.27 April Lopez Mount Miguel SR 4.13 Brooke Lopez Mount Miguel SR 4.13 Saray Lucas Mount Miguel JR
3.61

WRESTLING

Name School Year GPA Justin Atkins Grossmont JR 3.09 Trevor Kelley Grossmont JR
3.46
John Morgan Grossmont SR
3.14
Luis Perez Grossmont JR
3.00
Martin Deleon, Jr. Helix
SR
3.47
Nicolas Lupian Helix SR
3.25
Isaiah Parish Helix SR
3.51
Michael Belmonte Monte Vista
SR
3.31
Alexander Garcia Monte Vista JR
3.93
Brandon Rosete Monte Vista JR
3.67
Jose Serrano Monte Vista SR 3.07 Diana Higuera Mount Miguel JR 4.31 Edward Marin Mount Miguel JR 3.84 Nathan Ontiveros Mount Miguel JR 4.16 Sonny Samoata Mount Miguel SR 3.00 Joshua Tausaga Mount Miguel SR 3.24 Brandon Thompson Mount Miguel JR 3.20 Gerardo Vasquez Mount Miguel JR 3.32