Results are in. Coral Reef track standout voted Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week

Miami Coral Reef girls’ track & field athlete Samantha Ruiz is the Miami Herald’s High School Athlete of the Week, as voted on by readers in our weekly poll.

The senior recently won GMAC track & field titles in the 1,600 meters (5:18.36) and 3,200 meters (11:32.57) events. She is a former GMAC champion in cross-country, too.

Gigi Khoury, Miami Westminster Christian softball; Ava Alvarez, Miami Palmetto flag football; Cayden Boozer, Miami Columbus basketball; Tyra Cox, Miami Northwestern track & field; Remington Goins, Columbus track & field; Michael Larionov, Miami Palmetto tennis; J’Vari Flowers, Miami Northwestern track & field; and Isabella Benton, Plantation American Heritage softball rounded out the nominees.

Jim Varsallone

Miami Herald

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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