HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

By STEVE HENSON

Oct. 24, 2000 12 AM PT

There are faster ballcarriers. There are shiftier ones, too. But the toughest runner to bring down might be Isidro Medina of Sylmar.

Medina, a 6-foot-3, 235-pound senior, delivers a serious blow to any defender in his path.

“He is a very good north-south runner,” Sylmar Coach Jeff Engilman said. “It’s fun watching him run over people.”

Between collisions, Medina has rushed for 445 yards and nine touchdowns, averaging 7.3 yards a carry. He had 110 yards in the Spartans’ 28-26 victory over Kennedy on Friday.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

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