Claire Frazer and Andrew Rogers were recently selected by school
administrators as the top Healdsburg High Athletes for the school
year 2005-06. The top female athlete is awarded the perpetual
Smith-Robinson Trophy and the top male athlete is given the
perpetual Greyhound Trophy.
Claire Frazer earned eight varsity letters in an outstanding
high school career, excelling all four years in soccer and track.
Each season, Frazer earned the North Coast Section Distinguished
Scholar Athlete Award, carrying a 4.6 grade-point-average as a
senior.
In soccer, Frazer received the Most Improved Award as a junior.
As a senior while playing sweeper on the Sonoma County League
co-champion Lady Greyhounds, Frazer earned the Coach’s Award and
was instrumental in the Hounds second straight NCS playoff run.
She was just as impressive on the track, earning the team’s MVP
in her junior and senior years while garnering All-Empire honors
and landing on the Redwood Empire girls¹ all-time best list with
performances in the 100-meter high hurdles and the 300-meter low
hurdles. As a senior, Frazer won an SCL individual title in the
300-meter low hurdles.
Over her tenure at HHS, she earned five SCL all-league honors
and two all Redwood Empire honors. Most recently, she was honored
as Healdsburg’s Scholar Athlete of the Year at the Press Democrat¹s
All-Empire awards dinner. That same night, she was selected as the
Scholar Athlete of the Year for the entire Redwood Empire, an award
that considered all female athletes from more than 40 schools. In
addition, Frazer is an accomplished violinist on the Santa Rosa
Symphony Discovery Orchestra. She will be attending Dartmouth in
the fall.
Andrew Rogers earned seven varsity letters in his tenure at HHS.
Rogers was a three-year starter on the Greyhound varsity football
team and a four-year starter on the Hounds varsity wrestling
team.
In football, Rogers played wide receiver and defensive back. As
a sophomore, he was awarded Healdsburg’s best defensive back and
earned second-team all-league honors. As a junior, Rogers was
selected as Healdsburg’s best defensive back and Healdsburg’s best
receiver while earning first team All-SCL and second team
All-Empire in both positions. He was also awarded Healdsburg High’s
Yolo Team Captain Award. As a senior and a team captain, Rogers¹
season was cut short with a broken wrist. He still managed seven
touchdown catches and a second team All-SCL defensive back and
honorable mention all-league and All-Empire at wide receiver. He
was also awarded the Yolo Team Captain Award as a senior.
While accomplished as a football player, Rogers forte is
wrestling. He¹s been a team Captain for two years and has received
the Coach’s Award for the past three years.
As a freshman, he came back from a 10-1 deficit in a crucial NCS
match to win 23-12 and take third place at NCS, becoming one of the
few freshmen to ever make it to the state competition in wrestling.
Since his freshman year Rogers has been an SCL Champion (all-league
first team) four years, a state qualifier four years, winning NCS
titles as a sophomore and senior and second place as a junior to go
along with his third-place finish as a freshman.
Rogers has achieved All-American status twice, once as a second
place finisher at the NHSCA Junior Nationals in his junior year,
and again this week as USA Wrestling’s yearly selection, an elite
national team of outstanding high school wrestlers based on
records, historical performance and citizenship.
Rogers was first team All- Redwood Empire for three years and
was selected as the Redwood Empire Wrestler Athlete of the Year in
both his junior and senior years. His crowning achievement was this
year’s trek to state and winning the ultimate ‹ State Champion. He
did it in dominating fashion winning with a combined score of 60-20
and beating the second, third, fourth, and seventh place finishers
in the process. He is the first-ever high school state champion in
Healdsburg and only the fourth- ever wrestling state champion from
the Golden Gate to the Oregon border.
Over his tenure, Rogers has earned six first team All-SCL
selections, five second team All-SCL selections, three first team
All-Empire selections. and three second team All- Empire
selections. He has represented Healdsburg two years in a row as
HHS’s athlete of the year at the Press Democrat¹s All-Empire Awards
Banquet. This year Rogers was awarded the Large School Athlete of
the Year for the entire Redwood Empire.
In addition, Rogers was Student Body President and Yearbook
Sports Editor this year and raised pigs the past two years. He has
signed and will be attending Cal Poly University with his best
friend, teammate and workout partner Nolan Rege in the fall.
