Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week 15: Mason Mallory of St. Thomas Aquinas

Mason Mallory of the St. Thomas Aquinas football team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 15.

The senior QB was named Game MVP as the Raiders shut out Lakeland 29-0 to win the FHSAA Class 5A state championship at FIU’s Pitbull Stadium in Miami. He completed 21-of-32 passes for 261 yards and ran for 103 yards.

Other nominees were: Leon Strawder, Plantation American Heritage football; Christopher Coleman, Deerfield Beach wrestling; Marcelo Mantecon, Belen Jesuit cross-country; Mathieu Blanchard, Coral Gables soccer; Sofia Laria, Palmer Trinity basketball; and Jason Martinez, Westwood Christian basketball.

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