Jordyn Lilly of Bishop Diego added the Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award to her collection of honors this year.
The junior basketball standout and team captain has previously earned All-CIF, All-Frontier League and Presidio Sports All-City team awards.
Jordyn Lilly, the Phil Womble Award winner from Bishop Diego.
Lilly not only makes things happen on the basketball court, she does it in the classroom and in the community. She carries a 4.3 grade-point average, serves as a school ambassador and volunteers her time in the classroom at Coastline Christian Academy and works as a counselor at the UCSB surf and kayak camp.
“Jordyn leads by example and makes those around her better,” said Bishop Diego Athletic Director Dan Peeters.
Bishop basketball coach Jeff Burich said Lilly has been a tremendous worker since the first day she arrived at Bishop Diego.
“That’s just Jordyn being Jordyn,” he said of her work ethic as a freshman. “She wasn’t trying to prove anything to anybody. That’s just how she goes,” he said.
To explain the impact Lilly had on the Cardinals basketball team, Burich used a comment a senior player wrote on a questionnaire he distributed to the team: The question posed was: If I were the coach at Bishop Diego High School, to increase the team’s ability to succeed, I would… “Her answer was, ‘Genetically mutant them into Jordyn Lilly,’” he shared. “That’s the highest praise you can get, especially coming from a fellow teammate.”
