Former Mira Costa standout Massey
earns prestigious Byers scholarship

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Tony Ciniglio
on April 23, 2009 4:02 PM | | Comments (0) |

USC soccer player Amy Massey, a former Mira Costa High standout, won one of the NCAA's two Walter Byers postgraduate scholarships.

The NCAA announced Thursday that Massey and Arizona diver Craig Sheedy, will receive $24,000 to pursue graduate degrees.

Massey will attend the University of Oxford in hopes of earning a master's degree in forced migration. She has applied to law school, where she plans to study international human rights law.

After transferring from St. Mary's to USC, Massey helped the Trojans win the 2007 national championship. She has a 3.97 GPA and was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist last year.

Sheedy, from Tempe, Ariz., will attend Vanderbilt in hopes of becoming a pediatrician. He has a 4.0 GPA, was a member of the Wildcats' 2008 national championship swimming and diving team and has been a contributor in biomedical research at Arizona.

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Tony Ciniglio has been covering sports at the Daily Breeze since 1997 and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

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Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports since 2007.

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