Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week: Laniah Simpson, Mitty

Archbishop Mitty track and field athlete Laniah Simpson is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week for April 15-20. In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Simpson finished with 41.02% of the votes to edge Monta Vista track and field athlete Lelani Laruelle, who was second at 40.19%. Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition. Simpson, a junior, won both hurdles distances — 100 and 300 — at the Central Coast Section Top 8 meet and was the top points earner overall in the competition held at Los Gatos High. She...