Results are in. Florida Christian soccer standout voted Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week

Florida Christian soccer player Cristian Garcia is the Miami Herald’s High School Athlete of the Week, as voted on by readers in our weekly poll.

The senior scored the winner in a 1-0 victory over Miami Westminster Christian in a region semifinal and then had 1 goal and 1 assist in an upset 3-0 win over Miami Scheck Hillel for the region title to advance to the FHSAA state semifinal.

Kenneth Francis Jr., Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian basketball; Malaysia David, Miami Edison flag football; Samantha Villaverde, Plantation American Heritage soccer; Matthew Able, Weston Sagemont basketball; Mason Fuentes, Miami Riviera Prep basketball; Jalynn Belton, Miami Country Day basketball; Nykeria Flowers, Oakland Park Northeast basketball; Willow White, Homestead South Dade wrestling; and Dwayne Wimbley, Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas basketball rounded out the nominees.

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