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Monday, November 26, 2012

MVP Week 14: New Chance For Fans To Vote For Their Favorite Athlete of the Week

Representatives from all five Ladue-Frontenac-Olivette-area high school's made this week's Athlete of the Week candidate list. Fans can vote for a winner through 5 p.m. Thursday.

We took a week off from the Patch MVP voting to honor or Male and Female Patch MVPs of the Fall (Ezekiel Elliott of John Burroughs football and Natalie Gower of St. Joe volleyball). But it's time to bring back to weekly battle royale, as we ask fans to vote for their favorite local Athlete of the Week. Once again, we've nominated deserving representatives from all five local high schools, and we've opened up the voting to let the fans tell us, who should get the nod. Our friends over at Villa Duchesne have made this award all their own this month, by making sure each of our November votes went to the Saints' nominee. This week's vote marks the last time anybody from Ladue, John Burroughs, St. Joe, or MICDS will get a chance to keep Villa …

Friday, August 31, 2012

Villa's Brittany Green Wins Metro Tournament Singles Tennis Title

Sophomore prevails over MICDS' Angeline Veronikis, 6-2, 6-2.

Brittany Green, sophomore from Villa Duchesne is pretty crazy about tennis. According to her mom, she’s played the game since she was a little girl. Her bedroom at home is plastered with large sized tennis posters. She has her grandfather’s wooden racquet mounted on the wall. Bart Green, her grandfather takes in all of her matches. He knows the game, earning varsity letters for the University of Colorado tennis team years ago. Wednesday, Green was the teacher and her opponent Angeline Veronikis, junior of MICDS was the student. Though they battled point for point, and had some long sustaining volleys, Green prevailed in the championships of the Metro Tourney in the singles finals, 6-2, 6-2. MICDS has 15 courts, but slowly most of the …

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