Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week 22: Miami Pace cheerleader Kanieya Drayton

Kanieya Drayton of the Miami Pace competitive cheerleading team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 22.

The senior captain helped lead the Spartans to a national title and a world title at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, near Orlando.

Other nominees were: Willow White, South Dade wrestling; Latoya Sylvestre, South Broward wrestling; Emma Esparza, Palmer Trinity basketball; Jovani Solis, South Dade wrestling; Peter Mocco, Cardinal Gibbons wrestling; Hailey Sarmiento, West Broward cheerleading; Fernando Grande, Divine Savior basketball; Jaelynn Housey, Nova basketball; Clarence Westbrook Jr., St. Thomas Aquinas 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