{"id":199344,"date":"2026-03-01T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199344\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:22:10","slug":"prep-talk-football-student-athletes-to-be-honored-at-annual-banquets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199344\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Football student-athletes to be honored at annual banquets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Local chapters of National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame have begun honoring the top senior football student-athletes, with the Coastal Canyon area banquet set for Sunday in Agoura.<\/p>\n<p>Players are selected based on their grade-point averages and leadership skills, among other attributes, honoring the best of the best.<\/p>\n<p>Such players as James Moffat from Crespi, Mateo Bilaver from Chaminade, Jacob Paisano of Hart, Diego and James Montes from Granada Hills Kennedy will represent their schools on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles chapter will hold its gathering in Manhattan Beach on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Simi Valley coach Jim Benkert has taken over running the Coastal Canyon group with dozens of individual student-athletes set to be honored.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local chapters of National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame have begun honoring the top senior football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[92693,92697,92700,59147,15443,92692,92695,92694,92699,92698,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,92696,9442,6310,776],"class_list":["post-199344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-annual-banquet","tag-chaminade","tag-college-hall","tag-crespi","tag-diego","tag-football-student-athlete","tag-hart","tag-jacob-paisano","tag-james-moffat","tag-james-montes","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mateo-bilaver","tag-player","tag-prep-talk","tag-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199344","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=199344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}