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 San Clemente's Alaina Cousineau is the Register's girls scholar-athlete of the week.
San Clemente’s Alaina Cousineau is the Register’s girls scholar-athlete of the week.
Dan Albano. Sports HS Reporter.

// MORE INFORMATION: Staff Mug Shot taken August 26, 2010 : by KATE LUCAS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER.

ALAINA COUSINEAU

SAN CLEMENTE

GIRLS WATER POLO

GPA: 4.5

The USC-bound attacker has 30 goals and a team-leading 81 assists and 69 steals for the South Coast League runner-up Tritons. She helped San Clemente finish as the CIF Division 2 runner-up last season. Cousineau helped her club team, SET, capture first in the 16s division at the Junior Olympics in 2013-14. The three-time USA Water Polo Academic All-American is taking AP psychology, AP government, AP calculus BC and IB literature. She is a member of the National Honor Society and CSF and has earned AP Scholar and Superintendent Honor Roll awards. Cousineau is president of the Be A Hero, Become A Donor club at San Clemente. The club and foundation is inspired by her late twin brother, Evan, who had ALD, a genetic metabolic disease. Cousineau is interested in studying cognitive science at USC.