{"id":495361,"date":"2026-01-06T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:30:14","slug":"san-diegos-athletes-of-the-week-include-winter-tournament-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495361\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego&#8217;s Athletes of the Week include winter tournament stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Anna WIlson (Anna WIlson)\" width=\"295\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-aow-0106-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568988\" \/>Anna WIlson (Anna WIlson)<br \/>\nAnna Wilson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cathedral Catholic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls soccer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collecting two goals and two assists while playing smothering defense, the senior led the Dons to a 2-0-1 record in the Excalibur Tournament, downing Huntington Beach Edison 1-0 in the finale.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Grant Rodriguez (Grant Rodriguez)\" width=\"1173\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-aow-0106-04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568989\" \/>Grant Rodriguez (Grant Rodriguez)<br \/>\nGrant Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Averaging 17.4 points a game, the senior led Poway to the Torrey Pines Holiday Classic American Division title game, where the Titans fell to Cypress, 83-73.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Kaitlyn Kane (Kaitlyn Kane)\" width=\"235\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-aow-0106-07.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568990\" \/>Kaitlyn Kane (Kaitlyn Kane)<br \/>\nKaitlyn Kane<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oceanside<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kane scored 28 points to move Oceanside into the NAIA Bronze title game, then tagged on 13 more to lead the Pirates to a 45-35 win over L.A. Sacred Heart in the SoCal Holiday Classic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Derek Serna (Derek Serna)\" width=\"515\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-aow-0106-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568991\" \/>Derek Serna (Derek Serna)<br \/>\nDerek Serna<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hoover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys soccer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sophomore collected a hat trick in an 8-3 win against Caruthers, then went on to score six goals with three assists as the Cardinals finished third in the Nike SoCal Classic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Emma Cunningham (Emma Cunningham)\" width=\"1794\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-aow-0106-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568992\" \/>Emma Cunningham (Emma Cunningham)<br \/>\nEmma Cunningham<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls soccer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scoring her first career hat trick, the junior helped Henry down El Paso Eastlake to capture the 30th SoCal High School Classic tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Isabel Manalansan (Isabel Manalansan)\" width=\"309\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-aow-0106-05.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568993\" \/>Isabel Manalansan (Isabel Manalansan)<br \/>\nIsabel Manalansan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mira Mesa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Girls wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Competing at 145 pounds, the returning state qualifier rolled to a 4-0 record by pinning all four of her opponents in the inaugural girls\u2019 Battle for the Belt at Temecula Valley High School.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Joaquin Padilla (Joaquin Padilla)\" width=\"129\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-L-aow-0106-06.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568994\" \/>Joaquin Padilla (Joaquin Padilla)<br \/>\nJoaquin Padilla<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rancho Bernardo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boys basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The junior point guard scored 15 points and was selected the Most Valuable Player of the Mt. Carmel Holiday Prep Classic as the Broncos topped Placentia El Dorado 65-62 in the championship game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 STEVE BRAND<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna WIlson (Anna WIlson) Anna Wilson Cathedral Catholic Girls soccer Collecting two goals and two assists while playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3102,1370,3549,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-495361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-high-school-sports","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115845571351235767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495361","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=495361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}