OCVarsity Female Outstanding Competitor: San Clemente’s Ella Gardiner

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowAll the jumping in volleyball gave her an explosive lift in basketball.
All the post moves and defensive slides in basketball gave her quickness around the net in volleyball.
Ella Gardiner balanced volleyball and basketball for four years at San Clemente, but believes the sports actually stabilized her as an athlete.
“Cross-training,” she explained. “It’s so helpful to have different s