San Gabriel Academy senior Jayden Mojica is SBLive's Southern California Athlete of the Week (Feb. 13-18)

Basketball standout led the Eagles to a Southern Section basketball championship
San Gabriel Academy senior Jayden Mojica is SBLive's Southern California Athlete of the Week (Feb. 13-18)
San Gabriel Academy senior Jayden Mojica is SBLive's Southern California Athlete of the Week (Feb. 13-18) /

It was quite a few weeks for Jayden Majica. 

The 6-foot-2 guard for San Gabriel Academy first scored 27 points to lead the Eagles to a 66-53 Southern Section 3A win over Valley Torah (Valley Village) before helping his team to a 73-57 semifinal win over Bonita (La Verne). 

That put Majica on a SBLive performance list and then he was voted the SBLive Sports Athlete of the Week (Feb. 13-18) with a whopping 9,101 votes to outdistance runner-up Carter Bryant (5,007). 

The following week, he helped the Eagles to a Southern Section championship.   

We are currently accepting Southern California Athlete of the Week nominations. If you would like to nominate an athlete, please email sblive-social@scorebooklive.com or message us on Twitter or Instagram at @sbliveca.

Here were the other athletes who were nominated for the week of Feb. 13-18

Kennedy Smith, Etiwanda girls basketball: Smith had 26 points in this weekend's Open Division playoff win against Mater Dei.

Chloe Briggs, Ontario Christian girls basketball: Briggs scored 42 points against Bishop Montgomery last week to become the Southern Section's all-time leading scorer with 3,458 points.

Juju Watkins, Sierra Canyon girls basketball: Watkins had 29 points and 14 rebounds to help Sierra Canyon advance to 29-0 on the year.

Morgan Mack, Hart girls basketball: Mack had 30 points in a 68-65 playoff win over San Juan Hills.

Siara Bracey, San Diego girls basketball: Bracey had 23 points, 11 rebounds, five assists, four steals and three blocks against San Ysidro.

Claire Nordeen, Fallbrook girls basketball: Nordeen had 29 points, 20 rebounds and five blocks in a win over Grossmont.

Jillian Nowicki, Academy of Our Lady of Peace girls basketball: Nowicki had 36 points and 11 rebounds in a playoff loss to Torrey Pines.

Yalee Schwartz, Shalhevet girls basketball: Schwartz had 28 points and 22 rebounds in a win over Long Beach Jordan.

Darrellie Bush, Maya Angelou Community girls basketball: Bush had 24 points and 13 rebounds in a win over GALA.

JJ Taylor, San Ysidro boys basketball: Taylor had a triple-double in Friday's win over La Costa Canyon with 18 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds.

Micah Odell, El Capitan boys basketball: Odell finished with 33 points in last week's win over Mar Vista.

David Scariano, Imperial boys basketball: Scariano had 34 points and 10 blocks in a playoff win against St. Joseph Academy.

Angel Ochoa, St. Joseph Academy: Ochoa had 47 points in a round one playoff victory against Palo Verde Valley.

Cameron Wood, Rancho Bernardo boys basketball: Wood had 18 points and 14 rebounds in last week's playoff win against Canyon Crest.

Dylan Benner, St. Bonaventure boys basketball: Benner had 15 points and 14 rebounds to push the Seraphs into the Southern Section CIF finals.

Carson Brown, Tesoro boys basketball: Brown scored 37 points in a 68-65 win over Culver City.

Carter Bryant, Sage Hill boys basketball: Bryant scored 28 points and added 10 rebounds, six blocks and five assists against Littlerock.


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Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports

MITCH STEPHENS, SBLIVE SPORTS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.