Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week 21: Sebastian Barrientos of Belen soccer

Sebastian Barrientos of the Belen Jesuit boys’ soccer team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 21.

The junior scored 1 goal in a 3-1 district semifinal win over St. Brendan and 1 goal in a 3-0 district final win over TERRA as the district champion Wolverines improved to 15-5-5.

Other nominees were: Alana Garcia-Menocal, Lourdes soccer; Tomas Campian, Columbus wrestling; Cristina Echeverri, LaSalle soccer; Zoe Delgado, Florida Christian School wrestling; Mia Conard, Cardinal Gibbons soccer; Tiffany Francisco, Western wrestling; Viktoriya Devochkinn, North Miami wrestling; Josmel Nunez, Miami Beach soccer; and Lincoln Derby, South Plantation 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