{"id":479581,"date":"2026-09-29T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479581\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:24:33","slug":"press-telegram-girls-athlete-of-the-week-lexi-loya-st-joseph-press-telegram-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479581\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram Girls Athlete of the Week: Lexi Loya, St. Joseph \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School: St. Joseph<\/p>\n<p>Noteworthy:\u00a0The senior quarterback had eight total touchdowns (seven passing, one rushing) in St. Joseph\u2019s wins over St. Mary\u2019s Academy and Bishop Amat in Santa Fe League play last week. Loya passed for 198 yards and four touchdowns in a 48-0 victory over St. Mary\u2019s. She also had a 16-yard TD run. She passed for 199 yards, three touchdowns a 21-12 win over Bishop Amat. She also had an interception on defense.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya runs a keeper against Long...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFF-POLY-STJOE-0903-HF-06-4.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya runs a keeper against Long Beach Poly in flag football action at St. Jospeh High School in Lakewood on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya throws a pass against Long...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFF-POLY-STJOE-0903-HF-20-3.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya throws a pass against Long Beach Poly in flag football action at St. Joseph High School in Lakewood on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya throws a pass against Long...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFF-POLY-STJOE-0903-HF-14-3.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya throws a pass against Long Beach Poly in flag football action at St. Joseph High School in Lakewood on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya evades Long Beach Poly\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Mariey...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFF-POLY-STJOE-0903-HF-18-3.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya evades Long Beach Poly\u2019s Mariey Barajas before throwing a touch down pass in flag football at St. Joseph High School in Lakewood on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St. Joseph senior quarterback Lexi Loya loosens up before taking...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LPT-L-HSFF-POLY-STJOE-0903-HF-12-3.jpeg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Joseph senior quarterback Lexi Loya loosens up before taking on Long Beach Poly in flag football at St. Joseph High School in Lakewood on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>St. Joseph quarterback Lexi Loya runs a keeper against Long Beach Poly in flag football action at St. Jospeh High School in Lakewood on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School: St. Joseph Noteworthy:\u00a0The senior quarterback had eight total touchdowns (seven passing, one rushing) in St. Joseph\u2019s wins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5478,7,5479,5480,2044,22251,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-479581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-california","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-flag-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-lakewood","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479581","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=479581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}