Horizon Christian senior DiJonai Carrington, a McDonald's All-American on the basketball court, will attend Stanford.
Challenges met in class and on the field.
DiJonai Carrington has been selected as one of eight San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic Team Captains for the winter sports.
The Captain’s plaque represents each sport’s Academic Athlete of the Year. In Sunday’s editions, the Union-Tribune recognized 3,995 high school juniors and seniors as members of the All-Academic Team for maintaining a 3.0 or higher cumulative, weighted GPA while playing a California Interscholastic Federation-approved varsity sport. Selection of the Captains, made by the U-T staff, was based on academic and athletic achievement and overall leadership.
Girls basketball
DiJonai Carrington, Horizon Christian
Despite tearing her right ACL, which required three surgeries this summer, the back-to-back All-Academic Team Captain averaged 18.8 points and 13.5 rebounds in 20 games this season. Carrington missed the first two months of school while recovering. While virtually teaching herself, the McDonald’s All-American still managed to bump her GPA from 4.1 to 4.53 while taking several AP and honors classes.
“That was the scariest time of my life because I was unsure what the future held,” Carrington said.
The senior all-CIF pick fielded several Division I offers but committed to Stanford, her dream school since attending a summer basketball camp there in seventh grade. While the 6-foot guard plans on majoring in psychology, she’d like to be a sports broadcaster. She also has dreams of playing in the WNBA, as well as overseas.
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