Results are in. Cardinal Gibbons competitive cheerleader voted Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week

Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons competitive cheerleader Amanda Kerry is the Miami Herald’s High School Athlete of the Week, as voted on by readers in our weekly poll.

The senior and three-year letterwinner helped the Chiefs win their first national title at the UCA Championships in Large Varsity Non-Tumbling Division II at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando. Prior, they were second at the FHSSA state tournament in Class 1A Extra Large Non-Tumbling.

Nicholas Pineros, Miami Gulliver Prep soccer; Jonas Duque, Miami St. Brendan basketball; Adaya Montalvo, Miami SLAM basketball; Haylee St. Hilaire, Miami Doctors Charter weightlifting; Mia Conard, Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons soccer; Naya Hardisson, Miami Southridge basketball; Justice Lee, Marathon weightlifting; Angel Garcia, Miami True North baseball; and Kaleb Corbitt, Pompano Beach Blanche Ely basketball rounded out the nominees.

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

This story was originally published February 28, 2025 at 12:12 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