LAKEPORT >> She sets it in the fall, slams them in the winter, and swings it in the spring.
Clear Lake High School junior Emily Psalmonds is an athlete for all seasons, which is one reason why she is a finalist for the annual Lake County Record-Bee Athlete of the Year award. Athlete of the Year winners, one girl and one boy, will be announced later next month along with Coach of the Year winners in boys’ and girls’ sports.
Psalmonds could become the second member of her family to receive the award. Her older sister, Morgan, was named the winner following the 2012-13 season and has since moved on to College of the Redwoods in Eureka where she enjoyed a successful two-year run in volleyball and softball for the Corsairs.
Emily earned first-team honors on the All-North Central League I volleyball squad last fall as the very active and productive setter for the Cardinals. A wrestler in the winter, Psalmonds made it as far as the North Coast Section Championships where she earned a seventh-place medal at 106 pounds.
A softball player in the spring, Psalmonds ranks among team leaders in hits and RBIs while playing a strong second base for the Cardinals, who earned a co-championship in the NCL I and are about to enter the North Coast Section Division V playoffs in search of the school’s third sectional title under head coach Gary Pickle.
If Psalmonds wins the award, it won’t be the first time Clear Lake sisters have accomplished that feat — Tanya and Trisha White of Clear Lake are past winners. Two other siblings, Jason and Heather James of Kelseyville High School, also won the award.
