LOWER LAKE >> When Isazah King’s athletic career ends at Lower Lake High School, you can bet he’ll be blazing a path of glory to the college level.
The only question is whether that path will be 100 or 200 meters long?
King, a three-sport athlete for the Trojans, is a finalist for the Lake County Record-Bee’s annual Athlete of the Year award, which goes to a junior or senior who competes in at least two varsity sports and who is in good academic standing at his or her respective school. Boys’ and girls’ winners will be announced sometime next month along with Coach of the Year winners for boys’ and girls’ sports.
While most 12th-graders are looking forward to graduation at this point of the school year, King still has some unfinished business in front of him. He will be competing in both the 100 and 200 on Saturday during the North Coast Section Redwood Empire Track Championships at Santa Rosa High School. A top-seven finish in either event will advance King to the Meet of Champions the following weekend at Edwards Stadium on the U.C. Berkeley campus. The Meet of Champions is the qualifier for the CIF State Championships in early June.
King won both the 100 and 200 last weekend at the Coastal Mountain Conference Championships in St. Helena.
While King’s spring season has been the cherry on top of the cake for the senior standout, that cake was baked during the 2014 football season when he rushed for 1,629 yards — the most in any one season by a Lake County quarterback — as well as 19 touchdowns. He also passed for 951 yards and nine touchdowns while leading the Trojans to the North Coast Section playoffs. He scored 157 points in 11 games, one of the best single-season totals in county history.
King also dominated on the other side of the line of scrimmage, intercepting five passes from his position in the Trojans’ secondary and returning three of those picks for touchdowns. He earned MVP honors on defense when the All-League team was announced as well as first-team honors on offense.
In basketball, King came off the bench for Lower Lake coach Tim Biasotti’s Lower Lake squad.
