Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week 16: Rayna Benoit of North Miami

Rayna Benoit of the North Miami girls’ basketball team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 16.

The sophomore set a school record by making 10-of-11 3-pointers as the Pioneers defeated Miami Beach 94-17. She finished with game-high 45 points. She also scored 23 points with 5-of-7 3-pointers in a win over Gulliver Prep and 21 more in a victory over Mater Academy, ranked 11th in Miami and 59th in Florida.

Other nominees were: Cecilia Rodriguez, Lourdes soccer; Kingley Cospolite, Miami Beach soccer; Isabella Aversa, LaSalle basketball; Gabriel Alonso, Dade Christian basketball; Samantha De Gance, Stoneman Douglas wrestling; and Peter Mocco, Cardinal Gibbons wrestling.

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