6 - 2 Crosstown League Champions 2010 - 2011 And Looking Forward To The Playoffs As The #7 Seed

Tene Stewart

Daniela Lopez

Sarai Rodriguez

Last night, we had the honor to recognize the following student athletes for Senior Night at POLAHS.

Tene Stewart: Finishes her POLAHS High School Career as a 3 year Varsity player. Tene is our head captain for the 2010 - 2011 season and has been a pleasure to have on our team this year. She currently holds a 3.1 GPA and will be attending Cal State L.A. to major in Broadcast Journalism. We believe Tene will be successful in what ever she does, and we look forward for her to lead us throughout the playoffs.

Daniela Lopez: This is the first year Daniella played on the POLAHS Girls Basketball Team. She comes from playing the game of soccer last year and us this year for 2010 - 2011. Daniella currently holds a 3.0 GPA and will be attending Cal State Los Angeles next fall to major in Business and Pre-Law. Daniela is also a recipient of an Academic Scholarship to CSULA.

Sarai Rodriguez: Sarai, is our other senior to return to play her 2nd year with the POLAHS Girls Basketball Team. Sarai hopes to attend culinary arts school and would like to own her own restaurant one day.

Tonight's game capped a great regular season run for the Lady Polar Bears for 2010 - 2011. The team ended up taking Crosstown League Champs over Douglas High School due to forfeiting two games in the regular season thus putting POLHAS on top with the better regular season record. Though we did not achieve our goal of becoming league champions in a conventional manner, we have a great opportunity to be successful in the playoffs and compete for an All-City Championship Title on March 3rd. Last night's victory was another great team effort with Angela Wade #43 leading all scorers again with 14 points and Mimi Rodriguez contributing 9 points with a 3 pointer that helped us secure the lead to beat the Lady Wolverines 37 - 25.

As we look forward to the playoffs, there will be 16 teams in the Div 5 - Small Schools Section to compete for the All-City Small Schools Championship Trophy. I feel good about our chances coming into the playoffs and I feel that every team we face are beatable. We just have to compete, sacrifice, be focused, and just go out and play! Thank you for following us this season.