Five-star sophomore McKenna Woliczko stepped up down the stretch as Mitty won CCS and NorCal Open titles
OAKLAND – Mitty forward McKenna Woliczko reacts to a call. Archbishop Mitty defeated Bishop O’Dowd 66-18 at the MLK showcase at Bishop O’Dowd high school in Oakland, Calif. on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024 SAN JOSE – McKenna Woliczko burst onto the Bay Area scene last season as a freshman, putting up 20-point and 10-rebound double-doubles with regularity only a few months after graduating from middle school.
Scenes of Woliczko blazing downcourt and catching long outlet passes from McDonald’s All-American Morgan Cheli for layups was a common sight as Mitty piled up victories over elite programs, including a nationally-televised thriller over then-No. 1 in the country Long Island Lutheran in mid-December. Once a leg injury knocked Cheli out of the lineup midway through West Catholic Athletic League schedule, Woliczko stepped up for the Mitty juggernaut.
She spent the summer working on her jump shot, and the results were immediate as Woliczko showed that she could be more than a deadeye midrange gunner whose short bank shot is borderline unguardable. That was almost an identical number to what her father, Aaron, shot as a 3-point specialist for the University of Pacific in the late 1990s.Woliczko isn’t done improving, either.
If, or perhaps when, that improvement happens, she could join Mitty alum and Atlanta Dream point-forward Haley Jones as the only three-time winner of this news organization’s player of the year award.Athletes eligible for all-Bay Area News Group recognition come from leagues based predominantly in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. The selections this season were made by the Bay Area News Group’s Darren Sabedra, Joseph Dycus and Nathan Canilao.
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