High (school) expectations: Manhattan Beach Olympic gold medalist Alix Klineman

by Paul Teetor (Reprinted from Easy Reader, Nov. 2006)   When Alix Klineman received the Gatorade Player of the Year award in November 2006, prior to the Bay League Championship game against rival Redondo Union, she never once raised her arms — or the plaque — to acknowledge the applause that made Fisher Gymnasium rock like […]