{"id":241312,"date":"2025-09-20T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241312\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:25:09","slug":"prep-talk-unbeaten-la-canada-turns-to-running-back-dash-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241312\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Unbeaten La Ca\u00f1ada turns to running back Dash Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>La Ca\u00f1ada High football coach Dave Avramovich said he has never heard anyone greet, question or call out running back Dash Paper by his last name. It\u2019s always, \u201cDash!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an appropriate nickname (his real first name is Dashiell) for how he\u2019s been performing on the football team for the 5-0 Spartans. In his latest game on Thursday night, Paper rushed for 189 yards and one touchdown in a 42-13 win over Maranatha.<\/p>\n<p>The senior has gained 689 yards and scored six touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s awesome,\u201d Avramovich said. \u201cHe\u2019s grown up a ton. Last year he was the backup running back. He had a bunch of touchdowns called back because of penalties. We could see the explosiveness in practices and games. He\u2019s running tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the top flag football teams is Camarillo, led by basketball point guard Mya Rei Smith, the quarterback. Athlete. This is what happens when you get your top girl athletes out for flag football. Camarillo is 16-1. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eEUoUe3i2R\">pic.twitter.com\/eEUoUe3i2R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latsondheimer\/status\/1969113446118560008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>La Ca\u00f1ada has wins over Crescenta Valley, La Salle and Maranatha, all neighboring schools. If they played and beat St. Francis, they could claim to be neighborhood champions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to play St. Francis,\u201d Avramovich said.<\/p>\n<p> He\u2019s become good friends with St. Francis coach Dean Herrington.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it\u2019s about watching Dash dash his way for touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Ca\u00f1ada High football coach Dave Avramovich said he has never heard anyone greet, question or call out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[128920,1582,276,128921,128916,2961,128583,13940,128919,224,5337,128918,33760,111832,53159,3046,50647,128917,2030,80883],"class_list":{"0":"post-241312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-avramovich","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crescenta-valley","12":"tag-dash-paper","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-salle","15":"tag-last-year","16":"tag-late-game","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-maranatha","20":"tag-practice","21":"tag-prep-talk","22":"tag-st-francis","23":"tag-thursday-night","24":"tag-touchdown","25":"tag-unbeaten-la-canada","26":"tag-win","27":"tag-yard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115236380710474085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}