MHS football falls in season finale
With two of its top players sidelined by injuries, the Malibu High School varsity football team fell to Villanova Prep, 25-14, on Friday. The loss eliminated the Sharks (6-4) from postseason contention.
Malibu High began the season 6-0, its best start in school history. But the team dropped four straight to conclude the season. Starting running back Sean Conrad and starting quarterback Victor Tyler were injured in the previous week’s loss to Santa Paula, and were unable to play in the Villanova game.
“We just started getting banged up and when you don’t have a lot of numbers you lose one or two guys, you’re scrapping and you’re trying to find answers,” Malibu head coach Ray Humphrey told the Ventura County Star.
Former Malibuite wins triathlon
Anthony Barton, who was raised in Malibu, won the Los Angeles Triathlon on Sept. 7. The 40-year-old defeated 650 competitors, many much younger than him.
Barton started surfing when he was 7. Raised in Malibu, he had the ocean at his front door and the mountains at his back door. Now, Anthony has a beautiful wife, three children, two homes and is president of his company.
The thrill of victory is only part of the reason why Barton competes. He also raises money for charity. The L.A. Triathlon enabled him to donate to Learning Through Doing Adventures, an outdoor education charity. He is now focused on fundraising for Embrace Uganda, an organization committed to helping the youth of the African nation.
Barton is racing toward an even bigger prize, the U.S. Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. next summer. It will be his second Ironman triathlon. The event is a springboard to the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii in October 2009, the nation’s premier triathlon.
A typical day for Barton is to wake up at 5:30 a.m. and bike 40 miles. After breakfast he goes to the ocean to swim two miles before heading to work. In the afternoon he spends time with his children and coaches his daughter’s basketball team. Barton is the son of Veronica Barton Schwartz, who has owned Veronica Skin & Body Care in Malibu for 28 years. She also finished the L.A. Triathlon this year.
MHS alumna wins soccer award
Catherine Calvert, a soccer player who graduated from Malibu High School in 2005, was selected as the UCLA/Muscle Milk Student Athlete of the Week for Nov. 3-9.
Calvert scored the game-winning goal in double-overtime on Friday evening, helping the second-ranked women’s soccer team defeat Oregon State, 2-1, clinching the program’s sixth straight Pac-10 Championship in the process. Calvert, a senior, scored her first career goal in the 104th minute on a volley from seven yards out. She also helped the Bruins register the team’s 16th shutout of the year on Sunday, as UCLA defeated Oregon, 2-0, in its final match of the regular season.
This is Calvert’s first UCLA/Muscle Milk Student Athlete of the Week honor of the season and of her career.
UCLA (20-0-2) has won the first two games of the NCAA tournament. The Bruins host USC in the Round of 16 on Saturday at 6:30 p.m.