Sayler named Bonsall's student-athlete of the year

Joe Naiman

Village News Reporter

The San Diego High School Sports Association annually honors a male athlete and a female athlete from each CIF San Diego Section member school. The award is called the Senior Student-Athlete, but Bonsall High School had no senior girls on any of the Legionnaires' 2020-21 athletic teams, so freshman Mahala Sayler was chosen as Bonsall's girls student-athlete of the year.

"It was a real honor and honestly a real surprise for me," Sayler said.

The award is based on athletic, leadership, and academic criteria. "She came in not having played tennis at all but by the...