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Emerging leader - Muir's Wallace steps up

Video: Player Of The Year - Cherrish Wallace
Photo Gallery: 2008 Star-News All-Area Girls Basketball
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PASADENA - As a junior, Muir High School's Cherrish Wallace was a major contributor to the Mustangs' girls basketball team.

She also had 2006-07 Star-News Player of the Year Darxia Morris to rely on.

This season, Morris was at UCLA, and Wallace emerged from being the second or third option in the lineup to the team leader.

With a scholarship already secured to play at highly successful Baylor University, Wallace played focused and care-free throughout her senior season, leading the Mustangs to the Pacific League championship and a No. 2 seed in the CIF-Southern Section Division I-A playoffs.

She may not have earned a ring in the Southern Section or State playoffs, but Wallace is the 2007-08 Star-News girls basketball Player of the Year   Read Full Article...