Live Oak’s Eden Svoboda (3) steals second against Piedmont Hills’ Isabella Paskert (27) in the seventh inning of a softball game at Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Piedmont Hills softball player Isabella Paskert is the Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week for March 24-29.
In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Paskert finished with 50.56% of the votes. Dublin lacrosse player Kailie Kahono took second place with 34.21%.
Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.
Paskert, a senior, compiled seven hits across three games last week, leading Piedmont Hills to wins over Lincoln-San Jose, Prospect and Silver Creek. She had four home runs, a triple and 11 runs batted in and 10 runs scored across 10 official at-bats, adding three walks.
To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
Votes by email do not count. Only votes submitted through the online poll on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites will count.
Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites and in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.
Originally published at Christian Babcock