According to the Fighting Tigers’ website, “The freshman outside/middle hitter (Porterfield) was named to the All-Tournament Team at the 2011 Continental Classic hosted by Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. over the weekend after averaging 1.9 kills and 2.8 digs per contest in 12 tournament appearances.”

Her performance in the tournament led to Porterfield’s selection as the Fighting Tiger Athlete of the Week.

As a Lady Bulldog, Porterfield helped Butte Valley win back-to-back NSCIF D-VI basketball titles her junior and senior years. She was also part of the Lady Bulldogs first ever Evergreen League volleyball championship team in her junior year.

For more info and a photo of Porterfield in Fighting Tiger uniform go to the fighting Tigers website.

The Lady Bulldogs are loaded with talent. One of the most talented is Porterfield, who dominates both at the net and behind the service line. A junior, Porterfield leads her team in kills (203) and aces (76). She’s second in blocks with 30. Porterfield also leads the league in kills, and is third in aces and blocks.

It should also be mentioned that Porterfield is a multi sport athlete. As a sophomore last season, she was one of the best players on the Butte Valley softball team. You can also look for her to have a positive impact on the fortunes of the defending Evergreen League champion Lady Bulldogs basketball team this season.

The Impact Player Award is given on a monthly basis and goes to Siskiyou County high school athletes, male or female, that have had a significant impact on the success of their team. I select the players based on my own observations, often in consultation with the player’s coaches.

A total of four awards may be given each month and are not school specific; they can go to a player at any school that Siskiyou Youth covers. Winners receive Impact T-shirts that were designed by Golden Grotto. The T-shirts and award are cosponsored by SiskiyouYouth.com and NorCal Classic Hits radio, KCWH, 102.3/101.7

Tylor Cilione is a senior this year at Butte Valley High School. She has lived in Butte Valley all her life, and has made wonderful contributions to her class. She was student body vice president, and helped make many great things happen for the school, such as prom.

Tylor put on a summer camp for anyone who wanted to practice basketball. The first week she set it up for elementary school students to come and learn the correct way to play basketball, and have fun doing it. Then, she worked with the middle school and high school students. This one she made tougher and gave them more of a challenge since most of them had already played basketball.

Tylor then contacted Sacramento University and arranged for her high school basketball team to go to Sacramento for a training camp that they were having there for high school students. She had no help from the school, or even her coach, when contacting the head coach at Sacramento University. Tylor would not give up until she knew for certain that they were able to go to the camp.

Tylor has been very active in sports all through her high school career. She played volleyball and basketball her freshman and sophomore years. Then in her junior year, her basketball season was cut short by a blown out knee. Tylor finished out her high school career with basketball and softball in her senior year.

During her last basketball season she fulfilled her dream of making it to the section championship game and coming within one point of winning in double overtime.

After high school, Tylor plans to go to Simpson College to play basketball, and enter the nursing program.

She says that the things that she will miss most about high school are her friends that she sees almost every day, and playing basketball with all her friends. She also says that her favorite part of high school is freedom, and the fact that she didn’t have to deal with all the responsibility that she knows comes with being an adult.

In twenty years, Tylor sees herself having a family in a 3-story mansion with her rich doctor husband, two sets of twins, one dog, and a pet snake.

Siskiyou Youth contributor Anna Austin is a freshman at Butte Valley High School, where she plays volleyball, basketball, and softball.