SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A group of five senior student-athletes were honored for their participation in collegiate sports at four different colleges and universities during St. Francis Catholic High School's spring National Letter of Intent and College Commitment celebration Tuesday morning.
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Alphabetically, the four honorees were Tacori Abril (Folsom Lake College, soccer), Kasey McAtee (UT Dallas, softball), Kelsey Magley (Chapman, volleyball), Kiley Shea (Pacific, softball) and Lydia Vlahos (American River College, water polo/swimming).
The fivesome of Troubadours joins a group of 11 athletes honored in a similar ceremony last November: Yasmin Azar (Coastal Carolina, soccer), Grace Dunham (UC Davis, cross country/track & field), Caroline Foraker (UC Santa Barbara, volleyball), Makenna Frederiksen (Seattle, swimming), Brynley Hodge (Xavier, lacrosse), Alex Garcia (Utah State, softball), Francesca Guerrera (Maine, softball), Grace Mering (San Diego State, swimming), Jane Tattersall (Winthrop, lacrosse), Kayla Towne (UC Davis, cross country/track & field) and Sinclair Yadao (Sacred Heart, diving).
"These students devote as many as 20 hours per week on top of what is already a rigorous schedule of academics and service," said SF director of athletics Ryan Chisolm, in his remarks at the event. "To achieve at a level that allows them to compete at a college or university places them in elite company. To commend their excellence is certainly an honor for any athletics director."
The event also recognized the teachers, counselors, administrators and coaches who play a part in preparing all Troubadour students for their next steps after high school.
Detailed profiles of Tuesday's student-athlete honorees are available below:
TACORI ABRIL
SOCCER • FOLSOM LAKE COLLEGE
Key cog in a defensive unit that helped St. Francis soccer capture the program's 15th all-time Sac-Joaquin Section banner and second CIF NorCal Regional title in 2024... Scored 10 goals with four assists in two varsity seasons, mostly during junior season as a midfielder... Previously had four goals and four assists on Troubies' junior varsity squads... St. Francis also reached SJS title game and earned a NorCal bid in 2023.... Competed for head coaches Maryclaire Robinson (varsity), Alex Hoang (JV Gold) and Robert Vela (JV Red)... Plays club ball for West Sacramento Aztecas, winning 2023 San Diego Rebels Showcase and reaching semifinals of '22-23 Cal North State Cup... Also a sprinter on the SF track & field team... Intends to major in speech pathology... Made High Honor Roll in 9th grade, then Highest Honor Roll in sophomore through senior years... Earned Subject Merit Awards for biology, health and Spanish II... Extracurricular activities include serving as director and student leader for Kairos 94 retreat, plus involvement with APIC and Kindness Project... Devoted more than 50 hours of community service with West Sac Gives Back... Earned Swim Instructor of the Year at West Sac Rec Center in 2023.
KASEY McATEE
SOFTBALL • UT DALLAS
Transferred from Folsom High as a junior, has played 14 career games as a Troubadour for head coach Kevin Warren... Hitting .273/.429/.363 through games on April 6... Posted a double and run scored in team's 7-1 win at St. Mary's... Plays travel ball for Foothill Gold, helping team place ninth at 2023 PGF Nationals.... Will major in political science as a Comet... Made St. Francis' highest honor roll for fall 2023 semester... Active in Mock Trial, Academic Decathlon (won silver medal in the Interview category), Ministry Leadership (one of four Christian Service Leaders), and serves as a student ambassador... Volunteered as a coach at St. Francis' summer softball camp plus service hours at Sunrise Food Closet... Also serves as a junior coach for Folsom Softball's 6u team.
KELSEY MAGLEY
VOLLEYBALL • CHAPMAN
Earned first-team All-Delta League and earned a spot on the Sacramento Optimist All-Star Large Schools South squad... Led league in assists (783) and aces (74) while ranking second with 248 digs as a senior captain... Engineered a Troubadour attack that hit .209 and amassed 1,021 kills in 2023... St. Francis went 25-9 and won the program's 25th league title in legendary head coach Alynn Wright's final season at the helm... Previously played for Taryn Wright Campbell on JV Gold squad... Helped SF advance to Sac-Joaquin Section title match and earn NorCal Regional berth as a junior... Competed for track & field team as a sophomore... Played club ball for Omni VBC, helping team to runner-up finish in NCVA and national tourney bid... Intends on studying biological sciences at Chapman... Highest honor roll member with Subject Merit Awards in integrated math 1 and 2, chemistry and Christology... Earned Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Scholarship... Coached at St. Francis volleyball camp in each of her final two summers... Will become second Magley sister to play collegiate volleyball, following Ashley ('21), now a senior at UC Santa Cruz.
KILEY SHEA
SOFTBALL • PACIFIC
Transferred from Folsom High as a junior, becoming team's primary starting pitcher in April after serving the CIF mandatory sit-out period... Helped team recover from a 1-6 start to a 16-13 overall record, an 8-4 league mark and a Sac-Joaquin Section semifinal berth... Posted 2.98 ERA with 68 strikeouts and a .227 opposing batting average in 19 appearances as a junior... Through Saturday (Apr. 6), owns a 1.99 ERA and a .188 OBA, with 61 strikeouts against 13 walks in 45.2 innings in 2024... Plays travel ball for Firecrackers Leles Veasey 18U, earning invite to 2024 PGF Nationals... Also won PGF National Qualifying tourneys in 2019 and 2021... Earned USA Softball All-America honors in 2019, plus MVP of Stephanie LeDoux Tournament... Between high school and travel teams, has fanned more than 1,200 batters in 1,057 innings... Will major in sports management with Pacific's Eberhardt School of Business, to which she has garnered a merit scholarship... Community service includes Folsom's Murer House Foundation plus coaching positions with St. Francis summer softball camp, San Francisco Seagulls baseball academy and Little League Challenge adaptive baseball program.
LYDIA VLAHOS
WATER POLO/SWIMMING • ARC
Lettered in water polo and swimming under head varsity coaches Alex Hoang, Gaby Hawkins and Brian Nabeta... Scored 12 goals with 14 assists and 33 steals as a senior co-captain, helping Troubadours to an 18-11 overall record and a quarterfinal berth in the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs... Competed for SF's Gold (competitive) swim teams as a sophomore and senior, participating in 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly at 2022 Delta League championships... Serves as co-editor for The Mirror, the school's literary and art magazine... Team co-captain for Academic Decathlon, president for Inclusion 360 club... Finished 2nd in Essay at Sac County Aca Deca event in February... Also active with Model UN, earning Stanford FTX Meltdown Crisis Committee Outstanding Delegate and USC Moneyball Honorable Delegate awards... Four-year member of school's Chamber Choir... Devoted Christian service hours to CampRex.
