Miami Herald Athlete of the Week 7: Esha Nagalla of Ransom Everglades golf

Esha Nagalla of the Ransom Everglades girls’ golf team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 7.

The freshman won the Miami-Dade Youth Fair Girls’ Invitational with an even par 70 at the Country Club of Miami (East Course). She also led the Raiders to the team title, besting 11 other Miami-Dade County high school girls’ teams.

Other nominees were: Samantha Sears, Coral Gables swimming; Allison Pedroso, Coral Reef volleyball; Cole Durham, Ransom Everglades golf; Will Secola, Archbishop Carroll football; Jan Gonzalez, Braddock bowling; Eduardo Marin, Columbus golf; Amelia Gomez, Florida Christian School volleyball; Marcelo Mantecon, Belen Jesuit cross-country; and Isabella Sangha, St. Thomas Aquinas volleyball.

To be considered for a nomination (Broward and Miami-Dade high school varsity athletes only), email hssports@miamiherald.com.

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