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Niamey Harris just wants to keep Mission High smiling
On Wednesday, Mission senior Niamey Harris was named the Academic Athletic Association’s boys basketball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.
Winning both awards in the same school year had never been done before, let alone twice.
Does the soft-spoken, mild-mannered, 6-foot-2½, 185-pounder have a favorite sport?
Harris is a four-year starter in basketball, during which time the Bears have gone 104-28 and won three straight San Francisco Section titles.
Following a resounding 64-54 semifinal win at top seed St. Ignatius Tuesday, the 33-1 Bears will play for the school’s first Northern California championship Saturday at Vanden-Fairfield in Division 3.
Only Washington in 1982 prevailed, before losing in the state final to Carson-Los Angeles.
“That would bring a whole lot of smiles,” Harris said about winning a state title.
Harris has been making people smile since the day he was born 17 years ago, said his oldest sister, Caprisha Moody, a licensed family therapist living in San Leandro.
[...] growing up in Hunters Point as an only son, with a single mom and two older sisters, wasn’t easy.
Said Moody: Navigating in the inner city for young males is a major challenge.
Zelaya, Mission’s dean of students, grew up in San Francisco and is familiar with the neighborhoods.
St. Ignatius coach Rob Marcaletti said the fourth-quarter dunk wasn’t the play that deflated him.
MaxPreps.com senior writer Mitch Stephens covers high school sports for The San Francisco Chronicle.
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On Wednesday, Mission senior Niamey Harris was named the Academic Athletic Association’s boys basketball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.
Winning both awards in the same school year had never been done before, let alone twice.
Does the soft-spoken, mild-mannered, 6-foot-2½, 185-pounder have a favorite sport?
Harris is a four-year starter in basketball, during which time the Bears have gone 104-28 and won three straight San Francisco Section titles.
Following a resounding 64-54 semifinal win at top seed St. Ignatius Tuesday, the 33-1 Bears will play for the school’s first Northern California championship Saturday at Vanden-Fairfield in Division 3.
Only Washington in 1982 prevailed, before losing in the state final to Carson-Los Angeles.
“That would bring a whole lot of smiles,” Harris said about winning a state title.
Harris has been making people smile since the day he was born 17 years ago, said his oldest sister, Caprisha Moody, a licensed family therapist living in San Leandro.
[...] growing up in Hunters Point as an only son, with a single mom and two older sisters, wasn’t easy.
Said Moody: Navigating in the inner city for young males is a major challenge.
Zelaya, Mission’s dean of students, grew up in San Francisco and is familiar with the neighborhoods.
St. Ignatius coach Rob Marcaletti said the fourth-quarter dunk wasn’t the play that deflated him.
MaxPreps.com senior writer Mitch Stephens covers high school sports for The San Francisco Chronicle.
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