Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week 1: Ferguson bowler Lexander Perdomo

Lexander Perdomo of the Ferguson boys’ bowling team is the Miami Herald Athlete of the Week for Week 1.

Perdomo, a junior, finished first in the poll with readers voting. A 2024 Miami Herald All-Dade first team bowler, he had the high series (625) and a high game (236) to lead the Falcons over Miami Gulliver Prep 7-0.

The nominees included: Alex Gonzalez, Miami LaSalle volleyball; Skye Williams, Miami Florida Christian volleyball; Dayleen Valdes, Miami True North volleyball; Ayden Jaouhar, Pompano Beach football; Noah Alce, Miami Ransom Everglades football; Marisa Mantecon, Miami Lourdes cross-country; Sebastian Eterovic, Miami Columbus golf; Marcelo Mantecon, Miami Belen cross-country; and Sohan Patel, Plantation American Heritage golf.

Nearly each week during the 2025-26 high school varsity sports season, the Miami Herald will establish nominees for a poll of top Broward and Miami-Dade high school athletes.

Potential nominees are also received by emailing hssports@miamiherald.com.

Deadline for voting in the poll is around 10 p.m. Thursdays.

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