Amanda Parson

School: Foothill High

Sport: Tennis

Position: No. 1 singles

Class: Senior

High school tennis is not always the most genteel of sports as Parson discovered Friday in the Knights’ match at Fountain Valley. Midway through her match with Michelle Berkowitz, one of the top singles players in Orange County, some vocal Fountain Valley students showed up to support Berkowitz. Parson was momentarily distracted and lost a couple of games, but she recovered to win, 6-4, and complete another undefeated week. “It could have totally unnerved her,” Foothill Coach Dennis Claus said. “But she was really tough. I was really proud of her.” Parson, who is 21-0 this season, won all 12 of her singles sets in four matches to help Foothill, No. 4 in the Division 3-A poll, to a 3-1 record for the week. She won eight of the sets at love, which proved especially crucial in Foothill’s victories over University and El Toro. Each of the matches was tied, 9-9, and decided by fewer than three games. In the two matches, Parson lost only one game--to University’s Jeannette Fylpaa, who is one of the best players in the Sea View League.

Other top performers:

Amy Moeller, who had 18 kills in Mater Dei’s three-game, nonleague volleyball victory over Capistrano Valley.

Shauna Shapiro, who had 62 kills and 13 digs for No. 1-ranked Laguna Beach in a five-game victory over El Toro.

Shelley Taylor, an Edison cross-country runner who won her race at the Dana Hills Invitational for the fourth consecutive season. She ran 16:47 for three miles, which was the fastest time of the meet.