Clovis High senior Claire Minton wins 73rd annual B'nai B'rith award

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Clovis High School elder Claire Minton won the 73rd yearly B'nai B'rith Student Athlete Award.

"I'm inactive a small spot successful shock," Minton told Action News aft winning.

Minton was a four-year varsity missive victor successful some swimming and h2o polo who made the younker nationalist h2o polo squad wherever she participated successful the Pan American Games.

She besides competed successful the elder nationalist tourney for Team USA and traveled with bluish California athletes to vie successful the Australia Youth Games wherever they would triumph the tournament.

"It's truly unthinkable to person won," she said. "There's truthful galore radical with unthinkable resumes and I can't hold to spot (what happens) 10 years - 20 years from now."

Minton volition play h2o polo adjacent twelvemonth astatine Stanford pursuing last year's victor Julianne Snyder who near Clovis West to play astatine Cal.

She besides was this year's victor of the Negin Award fixed to the nominee with the highest GPA (4.76). Minton is the archetypal Clovis jock to triumph the grant since Julia Hardwick successful 2020 and 6th Cougar to triumph successful the past 11 years.

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