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Player of the Week: St. John’s Paul Robinson

Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week’s WTOP Player of the Week is Paul Robinson of St. John’s College High School in Northwest D.C.

Paul, a junior at St. John’s, had a dominant season in indoor and outdoor track and field. He won DCSAA all-state honors earlier this year for indoor track and helped the Cadets’ Outdoor 4x800m relay team to a school record at the Mount SAC Relays in California and the championship finals at Penn Relays.

Paul also finished top-five in the steeplechase this past weekend at the Dogwood Invitational at the University of Virginia.

Paul has excelled off the track as well. He’s reached Life rank in the Boy Scouts and is an honor roll student who volunteers as a teen council chaplain and food pantry volunteer at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Largo, Maryland.

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Are you the parent of an outstanding student athlete? Or do you know a student athlete who deserves recognition? Nominate your favorite high school student athlete from now until May 18. Nominate here.

Player of the Week: Freedom-Woodbridge’s Jeff Overton Jr.

On a team loaded with standout players and offensive firepower, Jeffrey Overton Jr. still stands out. He stood apart during the regular season, throughout the playoffs and one more time in the Virginia 6A championship game. Overton, a junior running back and defensive back already being heavily recruited by several top college football teams, rushed 31 times for 264 yards and two touchdowns and also threw a touchdown pass to lead Freedom-Woodbridge High to a 42-34 win over Highland Springs, capping the Eagles’ second consecutive undefeated season.
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