Season Interrupted: Snapshots of high school seasons cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic

The San Pedro ace was off to another dominant start when the coronavirus ended the season; he’s looking to engineer a new future at El Camino College.

The Compton RBI program, which is run by the ESPY-nominated Dodgers Foundation, launched the baseball career of Davis, who in turn helped turn around a winless high school program

The Burbank Burroughs softball star is headed for Dartmouth. When she takes account of her future? ‘I see myself as an actuary on the East Coast.’

Garden Grove Pacifica slugger Alyssa Brito had dedicated the season to coach Mark Campbell, who passed away last year. ‘This was our year to do something big.’

Two-sport star Quintin Lyons will pursue a college career in the shot put at Iowa: ‘I wanted to experience something new.’

Los Angeles Loyola volleyball star missed out on a Southern Section Division 1 title run; he’ll have to settle for a future at Stanford.

Former gymnast Taylor Shorter turned to hurdles at Norco and admits she had no idea what she was doing when she first started.

Unfulfilled by basketball, Nausica Gaither helped build Woodland Hills El Camino Real High into a City Section lacrosse powerhouse.

The Granada Hills Kennedy ace built a bond last summer with an All-Star team that traveled to Chicago; even with the cancellation of the baseball season he vows, ‘Everyone will come out stronger.’

Eagle Rock slugger Elianna Reyes and her mother each contracted the coronavirus, and it created a family scare.

The West Hills Chaminade couple, one headed to Stanford, the other committed to Vanderbilt, are in this together.

The UCLA-bound pitcher aspires to be a journalist: ‘Usually when I think of an angle to write a story, I’ll put myself in the player’s shoes.’

The Agoura hurler’s future plans took a hit with the logjam of college seniors who will return: ‘I just kind of take what’s given to me.’

Crescenta High pitcher Will Grimm had thrown 24 scoreless innings when the season was canceled. He found an escape in the piano and cooking burritos.

The coronavirus ended Mekhi Evans-Bey’s track season, then it came for his mother, who credits the Culver City standout for taking care of her.

Newport Harbor’s two-sport star has been with his band of lacrosse brothers since sixth grade. Now he will go his own way, to Bryant University.

Forced to choose from the four sports he played at Rancho Dominguez, Nathaniel Gomez chose soccer: ‘I believe it was my calling since I was young.’

Alessandra Samperio will study studio arts at Loyola Marymount; she will bring that artistic flair to the pitching circle as well.

St. Francis basketball standout Andre Henry says the team managed to have a great year even if the coronavirus derailed the season.

The coronavirus shutdown forced two-sport star Cara Dunnigan to make a difficult choice. It also opened her eyes: ‘I’m so much more than sports.’

The Mira Costa High volleyball star on the coronavirus shutdown, staying in shape and his plans for UC Santa Barbara.

Upland’s dual-threat track star was the state’s top triple jumper, but he has eye on more goal: 50 feet

The Pepperdine-bound shortstop overcame struggles with tentativeness from his freshman and sophomore seasons: ‘By senior year, I didn’t fear failure.’

The Mira Costa star’s efforts to defend her state all-around title had already been hobbled by injury: ‘I think it was a blessing in disguise.’

Aidan Elbettar, a 6-foot-8 track star, had kicked off the season with personal bests in the shot put and discus: ‘I still have four years to go at UCLA.’

Sophie Wazzan, a two-water-sport star at L.A. Marymount who is bound for Indiana, says, “This has been the longest I’ve been out of the water since I was 10.”

Thirteen years ago, Chadwick senior Izzy Taulli discovered competitive Irish dancing. Now she’s the national champ.

Culver City baseball standout Joaquin Hines, who is planning to attend Fresno State, wants to be a role model for black ballplayers.

Paul Skenes pitches, catches and slugs. The El Toro triple threat is headed for Air Force, where he plans to be ‘either playing pro ball or flying jets.’

For the Temecula Great Oak track standout, life is more a marathon than a sprint: ‘I’m gardening. It’s like running. In time things will come.’

How focused has the Reseda Cleveland outfielder been on baseball? He just now discovered video games: ‘I’ve never played in my life.’

The UC San Diego-bound shot putter’s future is set to explode, but in a good way: ‘I want to be a volcanologist.’

Mission Viejo ace Hayden Cody would like to keep it close to home in college and MLB: ‘I would like... to be like Jered Weaver.’

The Los Angeles University High School volleyball standout lost two full seasons but gained a healthy perspective: ‘The big lesson is to be more responsible for myself,’ he said.

Loyola swimming star Riley Griffis quickly read the reality of life outside the pool: ‘The time away has shown it’s something I need to function.”

Long Beach St. Anthony slugger Tiare Jennings can go long ball or small ball: ‘When I’m using my legs, special things happen.’

Reigning league MVP Jasmine Perezchica will go from one desert to another to chase her college dream: ‘I really live and breathe softball.’

San Juan Capistrano JSerra’s Colby Canales leans on the strength of his mother, a breast cancer survivor: ‘She goes and works every day.’

Santa Margarita’s Josette Odgers finds solace in winning two state swimming titles before the coronavirus shutdown: ‘We made the best of the times we had.’

UCLA-bound hurdles standout Aiden Lieb envisions a future teaching others: ‘I want to be that support system that believes in young athletes.’

Simi Valley two-sport athlete Chase Aurand learned a valuable history lesson amid the coronavirus outbreak: ‘Don’t take going to practice for granted.’

Stock-market watcher Marisol Torro has seen her Olympic stock climb, but her goals go further — in 10 years she’s hoping to “help mitigate climate change.”

Fountain Valley’s Jake Brooks threw 25 consecutive shutout innings before the season ended prematurely because of the coronavirus.

Aspiring firefighter Angelina DeVoe of Wilmington Banning is taking her heat east: “I’m going to have to be more independent.”

Eastvale Roosevelt’s Jared Tolmasoff pulled off a rare double of being a football player and swimmer: ‘If I never I came back, I had a good last day.’

‘The school season is when you get to be part of a team,’ says Mike Thomas of Studio City Harvard-Westlake.

‘I think we would have had a special year,’ says Santa Clarita Hart star catcher Aly Kaneshiro.

La Mirada’s Jared Jones said not playing during the coronavirus outbreak ‘is tearing me up,’ but he’s using the time to develop a breaking ball.

‘I’m just blessed I actually got to play my season,’ basketball star Asia Avinger of Fullerton Rosary says.

The San Pedro softball player says she has learned from the pandemic “definitely to not take life for granted.” She’s headed to Bethune-Cookman University.

‘I’m glad there’s an interface that allows us to share our feelings’

Archana Mohandas, the Marmonte League girls’ 3,200 champion, received exciting news amid the monotony of staying at home: She’s been accepted by MIT.

Brentwood’s Charlie Ciaffa says he understands how fortunate he was to play three sports after the coronavirus shut down his senior season.

Long jumper John Uhl is learning guitar and reflecting on what might have been: ‘We probably had the best team San Juan Hills has ever put together.’

Kyle Karros, the son of a former Dodger, feels right at home: ‘I’ve got my hitting coach in my quarantine group.’

Orange Lutheran ace Max Rajcic, projected to be a high MLB draft pick, says he didn’t realize how important sports were until the coronavirus shutdown.

Chatsworth ace Ava Justman is focused on pitching mound dominance: ‘I can’t even hear my own teammates cheering for me because I’m so dialed in.’

Solomon Strader was the favorite to win the California state championship in the 400 meters, but a bright college career awaits.

Sierra Canyon guard Ashley Chevalier says the coronavirus sports shutdown has helped her learn not to take certain aspects of life for granted.

Pitcher Lucas Gordon says the coronavirus outbreak has helped him realize that going to Notre Dame High ‘is the biggest gift anybody could give me.’

Palisades High basketball standout Jane Nwaba is inspired by her mother, a nurse who is helping the ill amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Norco softball standout Sarah Willis ponders what comes next while dealing with the coronavirus outbreak: “It’s about being in the real world now.”

Fans were ready to fill the bleachers in Arcadia this weekend to watch Nico Young of Newbury Park launch his bid to break the 3,200 meters national record.

Pete Crow-Armstrong says a sports-free existence hasn’t been easy during the coronavirus shutdown: “Sports gives me a reason to be a kid and be free.”