Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week 25: Skylar Flowers of Cooper City

Skylar Flowers of the Cooper City girls’ water polo team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 25.

At the Venice Tournament, the junior had 11 goals in a win over Gainesville and 4 goals in a win over Venice. She also had 9 goals in a win over Riviera Beach Suncoast and 8 goals in a win over Jupiter.

Other nominees were: Kayley Garcia, Hialeah Gardens softball; Lucas Riva, Columbus boys’ volleyball; Michael Acosta, South Miami baseball; Caleb Hernandez, Doral Academy baseball; Mikeria Miller, Miami Edison flag football; Tristan Sainz, Somerset Pembroke Pines wrestling; Keagan Mesina, Mater Lakes Academy 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