Cota, Prewitt Named Paloma Valley Athletes of the Month

From left: DeMarco Prewitt, Larry Nemelka of RE/MAX Diamond Realty, Principal Don Williamson, Ashlynn Cota.

Basketball season is over at Paloma Valley High School, but accomplishments of two standout players have not been forgotten.

Senior Ashlynn Cota and sophomore DeMarco Prewitt have been selected as Paloma Valley's Menifee 24/7 Athletes of the Month, sponsored by RE/MAX Diamond Realty.

Cota is a third-year varsity player who led the girls basketball team in scoring at 14.3 points per game. She helped lead the Wildcats into the CIF playoffs.

"Ashlynn's offensive abilities have helped her to excel as a player," said her coach, Romeo Galbreath.

Cota is considering offers from Cal State East Bay, Cal State Monterey Bay and Whittier College. She hopes to study kinesiology in preparation for a career as a chiropractor or physical therapist.

"I'm going to go to the gym and work out, hopefully get into a college program where I can work out with other recruit," she said. "I want to work on my defense. It's been important ever since I was little, but I'm more of an offensive threat, so I know I need to work on my defense and my speed."

Prewitt is a three-sport athlete who also completes in football and track, but most recently his talents were utilized by the boys basketball team. Coming back from an early-season injury, he led the team in scoring and served as a captain of the team.

"DeMarco is a strong student and athlete," said his coach, Michael Pfeiffer. "He is a high character young man."

Prewitt made first-team all-league as a freshman and came back with a strong sophomore season.

"We're a young team; we only had two seniors on the team," Prewitt said about the Wildcats, whose season ended short of the CIF playoffs. "At the end of the season we won three in a row. Our morale was good."

Cota and Prewitt received certificates from Menifee 24/7 and were presented Target gift cards from Larry Nemelka of RE/MAX Diamond Realty.






She is considering offers from Cal State East Bay, Cal State Monterey Bay and Whittier College. She hopes to study kinesiology in preparation for a career as a chiropractor or physical therapist.

"You talk about having two shining examples of our student body right here," said Paloma Valley Principal Don Williamson. "This is awesome."