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\u201cUnbelievable basketball player, but even a better human being,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cShe just has a really kind and empathetic heart, who walks through life with incredible grace, confidence and humility. \u2026 I\u2019m privileged to have coached McKenna. It\u2019s been an honor, and I\u2019m really happy for her and her future. But this is a bittersweet moment for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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When called upon to reflect on her four-year career, the future Iowa\u00a0Hawkeye paused before speaking, but she didn\u2019t crack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a long but such a fun four years,\u201d Woliczko said. \u201cThese teammates and coaches will be my friends for the rest of my life. And Coach Phillips has helped set me up to play in college. She does that for so many people. It\u2019s definitely a very hard loss and hard situation to end your awesome four years. But I\u2019m just so grateful to have these girls at my back and all the coaching staff, too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The San\u00a0Marin-Novato boys finished off a Cinderella story, winning the Division 5 championship after finishing tied for fourth in their league, then losing a coin flip to even reach the league playoff. The team never lost focus, but some deeply personal news from\u00a073-year-old coach Chris\u00a0Lavdiotis united the group more than ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, doctors found a cancerous tumor near the salivary gland of his 31-year-old daughter, Sofia, who had beaten Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma at age 19. \u201cShe\u2019s been cancer-free for 12 years, has three beautiful children and is a picture of health,\u201d Lavdiotis said.<\/p>\n
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Lavdiotis, who never takes calls during practice, did so during the 12-day layoff before North Coast Section playoffs to deal with an insurance issue concerning the surgery. \u201cAt that point I let the team know about Sofia,\u201d Lavdiotis said.<\/p>\n
Before San\u00a0Marin\u2019s NorCal title game against host Mission San Jose, Sofia, who lives in North Las Vegas, surprised her dad by showing up. \u201cSheer tears of joy,\u201d Lavdiotis said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve hugged her tighter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mustangs pulled out a 56-46 win, then played their best game of the season in an 89-64 win over\u00a0Sylmar at Golden 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sofia is scheduled for surgery Thursday to remove the tumor in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
San Marin point guard Grant Means\u00a0\u2014 one of eight seniors on the team, many of whom had played together as early as the third grade\u00a0\u2014 said: \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of tragedy on our campus,\u201d he said, recalling a 2022 car accident that took the life of\u00a0Zach Wilhelm, whose twin brother Grant was in the program. Rio Seiler, on the Mustangs last season, is still in a coma after a terrible fall nine months ago. The Mustangs broke every huddle and practice this season with \u201cFor Rio.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt pushed us all the way to this NBA arena and to win a state championship,\u201d Means said. \u201cIt\u2019s all sorta surreal.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Soccer time:\u00a0The first state soccer championships finished up in Sacramento at Natomas High School on Friday and Saturday and Metro teams finished 5-1 with San Ramon Valley-Danville winning boys and girls D2 championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lowell girls (15-2), behind two goals from\u00a0Kelilah Spirn and one each from Agnus Zhu and Simone Becker and two assists from Sophia Sempere, won the D5 championship 4-0 over Coastal Academy-Oceanside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aiden DePaco scored three goals leading San Ramon Valley boys (21-5-5), the eighth seed in Northern California, to a 4-1 win over Mira Monte-Bakersfield, while the SRV girls (17-3-2), seeded seventh, beat Westlake-Westlake Village 1-0 on a goal in overtime by freshman Morgan Van Puffelen. She also scored the only goal in the NorCal regional final over Mitty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Branson-Ross boys (14-6-3) and Marin Catholic-Kentfield girls (13-7-5) also won titles. Jonah Sher and Larry Calle LaBou scored goals for Branson in a 2-0 win over Garfield-Los Angeles, while Siena White scored twice and Milagros Gamboa and Nora Snearly added single tallies for Marin Catholic in a 4-1 win over Coachella Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Bishop\u00a0O\u2019Dowd-Oakland girls (19-1) lost in the D1 finals to Mater Dei-Santa Ana, 2-0.<\/p>\n
Briefly:\u00a0The Dublin Distance Fiesta, perhaps the largest high school running event in the country, takes place Friday and Saturday at Dublin High. More than 240 schools and 4,000 athletes are scheduled to partake in the 17th annual gathering, which features just five events: the open 800 meters, 1,600 and 3,200 for individuals, along with 4×800 and 4,000 relays (also known as the distance medley). \u2026 Former King\u2019s Academy head football coach Dante Perez has been named to the same position at Valley Christian, his alma mater, replacing Mike\u00a0Machado, who stepped down after the 2025 season. Perez\u00a0was replaced at King\u2019s Academy by former Leland-San Jose coach Anthony\u00a0Herrera. \u2026 The San Francisco City All-Star Basketball Games are scheduled for Friday at\u00a0CCSF, starting at 5:45 with the girls 3-point contest. The girls game follows at 6, a boys dunk contest at 7:15, the boys game (7:30), and the boys 3-point contest (8:45).<\/p>\n
\u00a0Freelance writer Mitch Stephens has covered high school sports for the Chronicle since 2001. Email: mitch@scorebooklive.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McKenna Woliczko closed out her stellar prep career with 19 points and 10 rebounds in Mitty’s 56-49 loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[951,17227,2044,15251,88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-227551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-high-school","tag-high-school-basketball","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-schools","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227551","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=227551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}