3 Maverick Achievers Maverick Star Athletes: The Ball is in Their Court MAVLIFENEWS.COM
These stand-out competitors brought home CIF titles while achieving academic success College: La Verne
College: Vanderbilt
Major: Business Administration
Major: Human Sciences
Favorite memory: Beating Lincoln High School my junior year at home because we were completely the underdogs, nobody thought we were going to win, and we came out and beat them.
Favorite memory: Being on the cross country and track team, just the experience of different people and just the memories we’ve had. I’ll never forget them. What motivates you: Playing for other people really inspires me to do my best.
What motivates you: Being part of a team, and winning together—there’s nothing like it.
Who most influenced you: My coaches. Coach Vice has been with me the most so probably him, just training me for my four years, and all of my past coaches.
Who most influenced you: The guys that came before me like Matt Shrigley, David Travers, Drew Kitchens, all the guys on the team my freshman year.
Fritz Eibel
Basketball
Advice to future athletes: If you’re not having fun, you need to find something else because there’s no point if you’re not having fun.
Emma Abrahamson Cross Country
College: UC Berkeley
College: UC Berkeley
Major: Some sort of physics, definitely something in the science world.
Major: Undeclared in the College of Letters and Science
Favorite memory: Junior year, even though the workload was really hard. I think socially and overall, it was a really great time.
Favorite memory: Last year when we won CIF [when] we beat Coronado. What motivates you: Playing for other people really inspires me to do my best.
What motivates you: Getting better, helping out the team and doing the best I can.
Who most influenced you: My coaches, Casey and Linsey, and everything that happened with Aaron Loy this fall just really put everything into perspective.
Who most influenced you: Bryan Castelloe, Shelby Wailes and Colleen McCamy [and] the way they all lived their lives and being able to watch how positive and forward thinking they all are.
Nathan Park Swimming
Advice to future athletes: Do it because you want to be there, you like the people you’re surrounded by and you like being a part of a team.
Bridget Grubb
College: Princeton
College: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Major: Some type of engineering although I haven’t decided yet.
Major: Psychology Favorite memory: All the sports games and the white out games. What motivates you: Moving up a level and moving up a goal.
What motivates you: Trying to get into college. Ever since freshman year that has been my main goal.
Who most influenced you: Seniors that are on my team. They motivate me and show me what to do and I follow in their footsteps.
Who most influenced you: My brother. I remember watching him play volleyball when I was 11 or so. He inspired me to play and I picked it up a couple of years after that.
Volleyball
Advice to future athletes: Never give up. No matter how bad a situation seems you can always pull through.
Allie Mulloy
College: Bryant
College: Wake Forest
Major: Entrepreneurship
Major: English
Favorite memory: Winning CIF, I won one my sophomore year, but it doesn’t compare to winning your senior year.
Favorite memory: Winning CIF my sophomore and senior year. What motivates you: To be better than I was yesterday, just to always get better. Who most influenced you: My parents, they help me realize the bigger picture and that you might as well just put everything into it.
Who most influenced you: My dad, without him I probably wouldn’t be where I am today as an athlete.
Lacrosse
Advice to future athletes: Make sure to maintain a good balance between school and sports. Remember it always goes family, school, and then sports.
Tennis
What motivates you: [Individually],to be the best player I can be, but on a team to win the championship.
Cameron Ziegler
Advice to future athletes: Try to be very balanced with school. School always comes first.
Lacrosse
Favorite memory: Playing volleyball for my team. They are some of my favorite guys at this school.
Kendall Ratter
Advice to future athletes: Don’t stress out your freshman year if you aren’t doing so well because you have three years left to recover from that and do well.
Advice to future athletes: Work hard, always keep your head up and just keep playing.
Pilar Torres Soccer
Advice to future athletes: Put in the extra work, even if you don’t want to when you’re tired, just keep putting in the work.