Kentlake High School’s Kadin Salisbury, baseball, is the Kent Reporter’s Male Athlete of the Week for April 26.<\/p>\n
Q:<\/strong> What is your favorite subject in school?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> Math.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> What other activities do you participate in?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> I enjoy working out and pottery.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> Person who has helped you succeed the most?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> Both my parents have helped me succeed the most because they are always supporting me and pushing me to do my best.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> Do you have a pre- or post-game tradition? What is it?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> My pre-game ritual is that I always stick to the same exact warm-up routine every time.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> Song you currently can’t get enough of?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> “Old Town Road” remix.<\/p>\n From the Sideline<\/strong><\/p>\n “Suffering a key injury to their pitching staff and shorthanded after a 10-inning game versus Kentwood, the Falcons backs were up against the wall and senior leader and pitcher Kadin Salisbury called for the ball. On short rest against second-place Kentridge, he threw a gem. In total, Salisbury pitched six innings last week, surrendering just one run against two of the NPSL’s top teams while earning the win against Kentridge last Wednesday night. Salisbury is also a leader in the clubhouse and classroom, posting a 3.90 GPA.”<\/p>\n ===<\/p>\n Kentlake High School’s Katie Valerio, tennis, is the Kent Reporter’s Female Athlete of the Week for April 26.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> What is your favorite subject in school?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> American Sign Language, government and politics.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> What other activities do you participate in?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> Baking, cooking, running and basketball.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> Person who has helped you succeed the most?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> My mom. She has always supported me in everything I do.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> Do you have a pre- or post-game tradition? What is it?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> Yes, I just put my earbuds in and listen to my playlist, which gets me in the zone.<\/p>\n Q:<\/strong> Song you currently can’t get enough of?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen.<\/p>\n From the Sideline<\/strong><\/p>\n “Katie Valerio is an amazing student-athlete, on and off the tennis court, and deserves to be the Athlete of the Week. Katie is finishing up her fourth season as a varsity tennis player, is co-captain and won both of her league matches last week – defeating her opponents from Kentwood and Mount Rainier. Katie is a natural leader and role model for her younger teammates and always encourages others to do their best. Not only is Katie a great tennis player, she also runs cross country and played basketball through her sophomore year. Katie is in the top 5 percent of her graduating class for grades, holds down a part-time job, is the American Sign Language (ASL) president, Link Crew president, and plans to attend the University of Utah next fall.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kentlake High School’s Kadin Salisbury, baseball, is the Kent Reporter’s Male Athlete of the Week for April 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":40298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40297"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}