Boys volleyball: Burden MVP of PCL

Corona del Mar High senior setter Evan Burden, who helped the Sea

Kings share the Pacific Coast League title, has been named Most Valuable

Player in the league by the circuit’s coaches.

CdM seniors Brian Gallagher and Charlie Alshuler, second-team picks as

juniors, are first-team selections, while four Newport-Mesa players are

members of the second team.

CdM seniors Forrest Mack and Garrett Macklin, as well as Costa Mesa

senior Mike Payne and Estancia senior Dan Wotta, are second-team

honorees.

Gallagher and Alshuler, both outside hitters, were big reasons the Sea

Kings advanced to the CIF Southern Section Division IV championship

match, their fifth straight appearance in a CIF final.

Mack, Macklin, Payne and Wotta were all middle blockers. Mack also

earned second-team recognition as a junior.

2001 Coaches’ All-PCL boys volleyball

Most Valuable Player

Evan Burden, Corona del Mar Sr. S

First team

Brian Gallagher, Corona del Mar Sr. OH

Charlie Alshuler, Corona del Mar Sr. OH

Ky Fell, Northwood Jr. OH

Setian Allah, University Sr. OH

Matt Susson, Northwood Jr. S

Austin Ybarra, Laguna Beach Sr. MB

Douglas McGilvary, University Sr. S

Second team

Garrett Macklin, Corona del Mar Sr. MB

Forrest Mack, Corona del Mar Sr. MB

Dan Wotta, Estancia Sr. MB

Mike Payne, Costa Mesa Sr. MB

Dan Profeta, Northwood Jr. MB

Charlie McDonald, Laguna Beach Sr. OH

Brandon Mel, Northwood Jr. OH