Gatorade National Girls Soccer Player of the Year: Teresa Noyola

        California standout named nation's top high school performer

In its third decade of honoring the nation's best high school athletes,
The Gatorade Company, in partnership with RISE Magazine, today
announced senior midfielder Teresa Noyola of Palo Alto High School
(Palo Alto, Calif.) as its 2007-08 Gatorade National Girls Soccer
Player of the Year.

  The award, which recognizes not only athletic excellence, but also high
standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on
and off the field, distinguishes Noyola as the nation's best high school
girls soccer player. A national advisory board comprised of sportswriters
and sport-specific experts from around the country helped select Noyola
from the more than 337,000 high school girls soccer players nationwide.
Noyola is now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade Female High School
Athlete of the Year award, to be presented at a special afternoon ceremony
prior to The ESPY Awards in July.

  The 5-foot-2 senior midfielder scored 18 goals and passed for seven
assists in just 16 games this spring, leading the Vikings (14-6-2) to the
second round of the CIF Division II Central Coast Section postseason. The
first-ever player to be named Youth, Scholar-Athlete and High School Player
of the Year in the same year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of
America, Noyola is also the first-ever two-time PARADE Magazine Player of
the Year. Noyola, who concluded her high school career with 40 goals and 27
assists, also competes for the prestigious Mountain View/Los Altos Mercury
Soccer Club program, having led her squad to three United States Youth
Soccer State Cup titles.

  Noyola, who was born in Mexico and moved to Palo Alto at age three, has
maintained a 4.0 GPA in the classroom and is a National Merit Scholarship
Finalist, as well as a National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
Finalist. She volunteers on behalf of El Molino -- a youth camp in Mexico
-- helping to restore the endangered Lake Patzcuaro habitat, volunteering
at an educational services and activities center, and leading the formation
of the area's first girls' soccer team for ages 6 through 12.

SOURCE The Gatorade Company