Name : Maddie Smith
School : Flintridge Prep
Sport : Basketball
Grade : Sophomore
Position : Small Forward
Pictured L-R: Maddie Smith & Akemi Fu
Girls Athlete of the Week:
We’ve gotten so used to the job that Flintridge Prep co-head coaches Kevin Kiyomura (and his cousin) and Jayme Chan have done in maintaining one of the San Gabriel Valley area’s most elite programs, that often times it gets taken for granted.
They have a program full of intelligent student-athletes that focus much more on the student part 0f that equation.
And yet in the last five years alone, the Wolves have won 96 of their 113 games, which translates into an 85-percent success rate.
They’ve won 44 of their last 46 Prep League games, and in 2023-23, the girls from La Canada secured a CIF-SS D-3AA championship.
It seems that every time a star or two graduates, there is another waiting her turn.
And the newest stud over the past year and a half is sophomore Maddie Smith.
Over this past week, Smith and the Wolves cruised to a La Canada New Year’s Eve Ball title by going 4-0, including victories over La Canada, Hart, Crescenta Valley and Granada Hills Charter.
They are now 16-1 and they’ve currently riding a 14-game win streak.
After the Granada Hills Charter game, Smith was named the Tournament MVP.
She led Prep in scoring in each of the four games, and she totaled 85 points.
Thus far, Flintridge Prep has outscored its 2023-24 opponents by a combined margin of 953-565.
vs Granada Hills Charter: Maddie Smith earned Tournament MVP honors, and she scored 22 points and grabbed five rebounds.
vs Hart: Maddie Smith – 21 points, 5 rebounds
vs Crescenta Valley: Maddie Smith – 24 points,
vs La Canada: Maddie Smith – 18 points, 5 steals,
Flintridge Prep at La Canada New Year’s Ball:
12/26: Prep 46, La Canada 25
12/27: Prep 63, Hart 36
12/28: Prep 63, Crescenta Valley 46
12/29: Prep 57, Granada Hills Charter 40
Up next: The Wolves travel to Providence on Jan. 10 to continue their quest for a second consecutive Prep League championship.
Prep League Standings:
Flintridge Prep (16-1, 4-0)
Poly (3-8, 1-0)
Providence (8-2, 0-0)
Mayfield (10-4, 1-1)
Westridge (4-5, 1-2)
Rio Hondo Prep (9-5, 0-2)
Chadwick (3-7, 0-2)
Flintridge Prep Records, 2019-2023-24:
23-24: 16-1 overall, 4-0 in Prep League
22-23: 30-3, 12-0
21-22: 15-7, 9-2
20-21: 11-1, 7-0
19-20: 24-5, 12-0
Total: 96-17, 44-2
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