Congratulations to 2019 grads Hunter Matys and Marcos Reyes. The Santa Cruz Sentinel named them the Co-2018-19 Santa Cruz County Male Athletes-of-the-Year.

Hunter was a three-sport athlete and boasted a 3.9 overall GPA. Hunter played football, basketball, and track & field, reaching the CIF State Championships in all three sports. He also broke four school records in track, and finished 6th in the state in the long jump. Marcos was also a three-sport athlete with a perfect 4.0 overall GPA. Marcos played football, wrestling, and lacrosse. In football, he was the PCAL and the CCS Player-of-the-Year, and in wrestling, Marcos was a league champ, placed 3rd in CCS, and was a State Meet qualifier.

Hunter will run track at Cal Poly, SLO next year, and Marcos will be playing football at Chapman University.

The last Sentinel Athlete-of-the-Year from Aptos HS was Ben Dorfman in 2014-15.

Big congrats to both.