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

Miami LaSalle girls’ basketball player Alexandra Gonzalez Casar is the Miami Herald’s High School Athlete of the Week, as voted on by readers in our weekly poll.

The sophomore recorded her 9th double-double of the season as the Royal Lions (10-1) defeated Florida Christian. She had 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Ana Levy Armesto, Miami Gulliver Prep soccer; Jesus Alvarenga, Miami Jackson soccer; Emma Esparza, Miami Palmer Trinity basketball; Sophie Barnes, Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas soccer; Savanna Nicholson, Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons basketball; Santiago Bergonzi, Miami Coral Gables soccer; and J’adore Hayes, North Miami 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