Coconino’s Woodlyn Smith and Northland Prep’s Jacob Marquez took the domestic pinnacle honors at the second annual 2019 Champions of the Mountain, and each has been provided a $1,000 scholarship.
The night, hosted through the Flagstaff Sports Institute, delivered the athletic groups collectively from 3 nearby excessive colleges, Flagstaff High School, Coconino High, and Northland Prep Academy, to honor Flagstaff’s best multi-recreation athletes. Finalists have been selected based on their extraordinary athletic accomplishments, person, leadership, and community provider.
Ten graduating senior multi-sport athletes were commemorated at this year’s ceremony, $3,000 in scholarships were presented in general, and Northland Prep’s athletic branch was diagnosed for having the best quantity of multi-sport athletes nominated for this year’s award.
Marquez became a 3-recreation soccer, hockey, and baseball superstar for NPA. He became crew captain his senior year and was Team All-Central Region as he helped the Spartans baseball crew reach the 2A Conference kingdom quarterfinals. In football, he changed into protecting captain his senior 12 months.
During his junior campaign, Marquez had the most prolific hitting season of his baseball career, in which he hit for a .486 batting average, registered 36 hits, and tallied 23 RBIs.
Smith became a celebrity for the Coconino Panthers in the US. S ., a key defender for the football group and a kingdom champion in the 300-meter hurdles event, earned her the 2019 Arizona Daily Sun Girls Track Athlete and Field of the Year award this spring. Smith competed within the country past the United States Meet all four years and became a force on the kingdom song and field meet her junior and senior years.
In her last outing at the state tune and subject meet, Smith became locked in a tight race that got her down to an image end. She slightly edged out her competitor to take her first-ever gold medal in the national music and area meets on the Division III level. She earned bronze in the 800m run shortly after taking gold within the hurdles.
The award for Smith caps off a senior year that netted her plenty of hardware. She was also named a recipient of Flagcoco’s annual Spirit Awards earlier this week.
NAZ Elite’s Grayson Murphy became the guest speaker at the May 14 occasion at the Coconino Center of the Arts. She stimulated the gang with her revel as a multi-sport athlete who had never run until she walked on for the Santa Clara Move. S. A . Crew her sophomore 12 months.
Although Murphy now competes in running at an expert stage, she credits her injury-unfastened strolling profession to her lifelong participation in more than one sport, such as football, hiking, skiing, mountain biking, avenue cycling, surfing, and yoga.
Eight other athletes were venerated as finalists for the awards, including Northland Prep’s Kate Bailey, Emma Blair, and Fred Gooding, Coconino’s Kenzie Palmer, Dawson Buckley, Ty Furr, and Brennan Motes, and Flagstaff’s Isabella Naughton.
To date, Flagstaff Sports Institute has supplied nearby children athletes with more than $7,000 in scholarships, knowledgeable more than a hundred athletes within the Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement training Program, provided ImPACT concussion checks freed from rate to over 300 athletes, and installed Certified Athletic Training Programs at nearby schools.
