Frenchy Silva is the South Coast League Athlete of the Year. FILE PHOTO BY KEN STEINHARDT |
South Coast League: Francesca Silva
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School: Dana Hills High School
Lives in: Laguna Niguel
GPA: 4.32
College plans: University of Notre Dame on scholarship
Four years varsity track and field, three years varsity volleyball and one year JV volleyball, four years club volleyball.
Honors include: Volleyball: team captain, first team All League, second team All CIF Div. I-AA, awarded best defensive player. Track: OC Champions, first place in 4,100, fourth place in 4,400, fifth place in 300 hurdles, seventh place in 100m. Part of two school records in 4x100 relay and 4x200 relay. Club volleyball: Playing for Laguna Beach Volleyball Club 18-1 team. Team co-captain. Invited to train in Colorado Springs as part of USA A2 High Performance Volleyball Camp. Played for Southern California Volleyball Association in Global Challenge in summer of 2006 where teams from Russia and China participated. Selected by prepvolleyball.com as Senior Ace (top 150) for class of 2008.
Other activities: Superintendent's Honor Roll for every completed high school semester and Junior Honor Guard. Created Bottles for Boosters program to raise money for volleyball by recycling practice/match water bottles.
Plans: Receive degree in journalism and work as international broadcast journalist for an organization like CNN. Play for U.S. women's national volleyball team and participate in the Olympics and play professional volleyball overseas.
Contact the writer: preps@ocregister.com
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