Results are in. Palmer Trinity basketball standout voted Herald High School Athlete of the Week

Miami Palmer Trinity girls’ basketball player Sofia Laria is the Miami Herald’s High School Athlete of the Week, as voted on by readers in our weekly poll.

The freshman guard scored 33 points and grabbed 16 rebounds in the Falcons’ upset win over Miami Mater Lakes Academy 67-56.

Isabella Escobar, Miami Florida Christian soccer; Angel Lara, Miami Coral Park basketball; Dwight Carter, Miami Northwestern basketball; Vanessa Vancott, Miami Mater Lakes Academy basketball; David Leiva, Parkland Stoneman Douglas wrestling; Liam Lesentier, Miami MAST Academy basketball; Cameron Boozer, Miami Columbus basketball; J’adore Hayes, North Miami basketball; and Dylan McKeon, Coral Springs wrestling 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.

This story was originally published January 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM.

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