Results are in. Miami Palmetto basketball standout voted Herald High School Athlete of the Week

Miami Palmetto boys’ basketball player Santiago Henriquez is the Miami Herald’s High School Athlete of the Week, as voted on by readers in our weekly poll.

The senior led the Panthers to a runner-up finish at the Junior Orange Basketball Classic at Miami Westminster Christian. He had 24 points with 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block in the finals in a loss to No. 18 nationally-ranked Roman Catholic High School from Philadelphia. In a semifinal win over two-time tournament champ Maryland Mount St. Joseph, he scored 25 points with 8 assists, 2 rebounds and 4 steals. In an opening win over defending 6A state champ Pembroke Pines Charter, he totaled 26 points with 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals.

Victoria Valle (Miami Doral Academy basketball), Jonathan Joseph (North Miami basketball), Lenonx Munoz (Miami Beach soccer), and Nash Youte (Coconut Creek basketball) rounded out the participants in this week’s poll.

The Miami Herald Athlete of the Week poll opens Sunday every week and closes around 10 p.m. Thursday.

Jim Varsallone

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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription