Board to Name Boseman as State Athlete of the Year : Preps: The Morningside High two-sport standout becomes area’s fourth male athlete to win the award since 1972.

Morningside High’s Stais Boseman will need to clear yet another space in his densely packed trophy case today when the All-Southern California Board of Athletics names him male high school athlete of the year.

Boseman, The Times’s South Bay Back of the Year in football and Player of the Year in basketball, quarterbacked the Monarchs to the Division VIII championship in football and, as a forward, led them to the Division III title in basketball. He was named Southern Section player of the year in both sports.

Marion Jones, a junior sprinter and basketball player from Thousand Oaks, won the Board of Athletics’ female award for the second consecutive year.

Boseman and Jones were juniors during the 1991-92 school year.

The 6-foot-3 Boseman passed for 1,173 yards and 16 touchdowns and ran for 1,367 yards and 17 touchdowns in 1991. In addition, he intercepted six passes as a defensive back. He was named as a quarterback to the Division VIII all-star team and as a defensive back on the All-Southern Section super squad.

In basketball, Boseman has been an All-Southern Section first-team pick the past two seasons. Last season, Boseman scored 24 points as the Monarchs finished a 25-6 season with a 79-72 victory over Seaside of Monterey for the state championship.

“It’s an award that he is most deserving of,” Monarch football Coach Ron Tatum said of Boseman’s latest honor. “I don’t know of anyone who has done the things he has done, especially this past year.”

Tatum said that Boseman was out of town at a basketball camp and was unavailable for comment.

“I’m sure he is grateful that people did notice the things he did,” Tatum said. “But he’s more of a team player. His objective is to do the best he can do for the team, which is all we ask of any of our athletes. He’s the epitome of that philosophy.”

Boseman has indicated that he intends to wait until next March to make a decision about college and whether he will choose football and/or basketball.

“I just hope he makes a decision that he can be happy with and one that he will enjoy,” Tatum said.

Boseman becomes only the fourth South Bay athlete to win the Board of Athletics’ male athlete-of-the-year award since 1972, joining North Torrance baseball player Dennis Littlejohn (1972), Westchester football/basketball/volleyball standout Tim Hovland (1977) and Banning shotputter/football player Michael Alo (1981).

Westchester track standouts Kim Robinson (1977) and Gwen Loud (1979) and Morningside basketball player Lisa Leslie (1990) are the only three South Bay female athletes to win the award.