Spring sports: players to watch

Senior Trevor Rosenberg plays on Carlsbad High's varsity baseball team. He has been playing for 14 years and has big plans for his future baseball career. “My greatest accomplishment for baseball has been committing to play baseball at the University of San Diego,” Rosenberg said. Rosenberg’s motivation to play comes from his dad and his coaches. He appreciates their support and that they push him to...

Senior Steven Ganelin plays lacrosse for the boys varsity lacrosse team. His greatest accomplishments include being the second team all-league in the Avocado West League last year and committing to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania this past summer. He has been playing for six years. “I am motivated by wanting to be the best and the fear of not being good," Ganelin said. "I try to ...

Senior Dionne Macias plays softball at Carlsbad High with three years on the varsity team. Her passion and love for the game plays a major role in her success as an athlete. “Becoming a better player overall is an accomplishment and playing with the support of different coaches is a big asset,” Macias said. Dionne comes from a family with a long history of playing softball. Since many of h...

Junior Cullen Plousha plays on the varsity golf team and has been playing golf for nine years. “Making varsity on the high school team was pretty cool,” Plousha said. “And then playing some competitive golf outside of school is also fun."  Plousha wants to play golf in college, he has hopes to play at Oregon State University. “My dad is my biggest source of motivation comes from...

Junior Alana Snow has been competing in track and field for six years. Some of her greatest accomplishments include winning all-league for high jump her freshman and sophomore year, winning division one CIF last year, and later that season going to state and getting ninth. With her busy schedule of both high jumping and softball in the spring, she has to stay very motivated to balance it all. “The lo...

Junior Sukhman Singh currently swims for Carlsbad High's varsity swim team. Singh has been swimming since fourth grade and plans on continuing swimming through high school with hopes of swimming in college one day.   Singh’s accomplishments include winning two CIF events last season, the 100 meter butterfly and the 100 meter backstroke. The team got runner-up in CIF last season. “This year...

As a transfer from Westview High School this year, junior Rylee Skachenko has many things to look forward to as a Lancer. Her biggest accomplishments include being on varsity since freshman year and winning CIF when she went to Westview. “I am motivated by knowing that I’ve set good goals and I want to accomplish them," Skachenko said. "My brother plays too and my whole family’s really competitive...

Michael is a two year member of the varsity tennis team and also a member of the San Diego 4.0 Men’s tennis league. “I am in the top 30 of the San Diego 4.0 Men’s tennis league,” Apostol said. “Which is like a tennis league, for men in San Diego of all different skill levels”. Many high school athletes play their sports for a vast array of reasons ranging from a desire to go pro to using it as an ...

Senior Grant Holve plays for the varsity volleyball team. He has been playing both for Carlsbad High and for his own club team since eighth grade. “Probably the most significant accomplishments in my volleyball career would be making it to the CIF Finals the past two years and medaling in a club tournament this season," Holve said. "We got a silver medal, which was pretty cool.” Holve is...

Senior Tatum Bernat runs as a sprinter for the varsity track and field team. She overcomes obstacles by working hard and staying focused. She has been on the team since her freshman year. “I run the 100, 200, the 4x100 relay and the 4x400 relay,” Bernat said. “Probably the biggest accomplishment throughout my track career has been going to state with the 4x400 teams during my freshman and so...

Carlsbad High senior Josiah Villagomez runs for the varsity track and field team. He has been running track for seven years, with three of those years spent on CHS's varsity team. “One of my greatest accomplishments include winning sprinter of the year for my sophomore and freshman season,” Villagomez said. His greatest motivation to run track comes from his desire to get points for the te...

Senior Megan Chua has been swimming for nine years. Her greatest accomplishments include reaching CIF prelims her sophomore year and winning leagues with her teammates. “The swim banquet is always really fun because we get to look back on really good swims and bad ones too,” Chua said. Although she does not have plans to competitively swim in college, she is thinking about either joining...