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Malaika Underwood, who helped lead the U.S.A. women's team to the gold medal in the Pan Am Games the past two weeks, is "one of the all-time greatest student-athletes in La Jolla High history," according to Gary Frank, head baseball coach who was a JV assistant and varsity assistant during Malaika's years at LJHS.
Reports from the Pan Am Games in Canada have carried the news that Underwood played baseball for the boys team in high school. Even more, Malaika was the CIF Female Prep Athlete of the Year in 1999 for her senior year.
She was the starting second baseman on the Vikings varsity as a senior. She played girls volleyball in the fall and girls basketball in the winter, and was named All-County in both those sports before moving to Coach Bob Allen's baseball team in the spring.
According to Frank, who by then was Allen's assistant after finishing a minor league baseball career himself, Underwood was the only girl in the county playing on a boys high school baseball team.
Copyright 2015 Ed Piper
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