{"id":162703,"date":"2026-02-03T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:54:09","slug":"januarys-athletes-of-the-month-include-stars-in-wrestling-soccer-and-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162703\/","title":{"rendered":"January&#8217;s Athletes of the Month include stars in wrestling, soccer and basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Mario Carini (Mario Carini)\" width=\"1014\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SUT-L-aow-0113-06.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9575980\" \/>Mario Carini (Mario Carini)<br \/>\nMario Carini<\/p>\n<p>Poway<\/p>\n<p>Boys wrestling<\/p>\n<p>Wrestling at 179 pounds, Carini won the prestigious Doc Buchanan Tournament as a No. 3 seed. FloWrestling moved him to No. 1 nationally. His only loss came at 190 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Emma Cunningham (Emma Cunningham)\" width=\"1794\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SUT-L-aow-0106-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9568992\" \/>Emma Cunningham (Emma Cunningham)<br \/>\nEmma Cunningham<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Henry<\/p>\n<p>Girls soccer<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham led the way as the Patriots went unbeaten in January, posting a 5-0-1 record and sprinting to the top of the Western League standings. She has scored nine goals with 23 assists this season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Avery Haugh (Avery Haugh)\" width=\"337\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SUT-L-aow-0113-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9575983\" \/>Avery Haugh (Avery Haugh)<br \/>\nAvery Haugh<\/p>\n<p>El Camino<\/p>\n<p>Girls water polo<\/p>\n<p>Averaging almost five goals a game, the senior has scored 91 goals for the 18-3 Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Tavid Johnson (Tavid Johnson)\" width=\"237\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SUT-L-aow-1216-05.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9552631\" \/>Tavid Johnson (Tavid Johnson)<br \/>\nTavid Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Francis Parker<\/p>\n<p>Boys basketball<\/p>\n<p>With the junior averaging 25.5 points a game on the season, the Lancers went 7-1 overall and 5-0 in Coastal League play. He is averaging six rebounds and 3.8 assists a game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Caroline Collins (Caroline Collins)\" width=\"726\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SUT-L-aow-0113-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9575981\" \/>Caroline Collins (Caroline Collins)<br \/>\nCaroline Collins<\/p>\n<p>Carlsbad<\/p>\n<p>Girls wrestling<\/p>\n<p>The Dakota Wesleyan University commit moved to the top of the 112-pound weight division with an impressive victory at the Queen of the Realm Tournament in San Marcos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Stephanie Hernandez\" width=\"1481\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SUT-L-aom-0205-05.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9202389\" \/>Stephanie Hernandez<br \/>\nStephanie Hernandez<\/p>\n<p>Hoover<\/p>\n<p>Girls soccer<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals were on fire in January, going 5-1-2. Hernandez scored 20 goals and dished out nine assists. She had eight goals in one game and passed 100 in her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 STEVE BRAND<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Carini (Mario Carini) Mario Carini Poway Boys wrestling Wrestling at 179 pounds, Carini won the prestigious Doc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-162703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}