Rancho Mirage quarterback Yanni Padilla named offensive MVP of the Desert Empire League. ... Athlete: Koa Rapolla, Palm Springs (Soph.) FIRST-TEAM DEFENSE. DL: Jackson Bishop, Palm Desert (Soph.) ...

Rancho Mirage's Yanni Padilla is No. 6 on the 2024 Elite 11 high school football team The countdown continues as we highlight a different valley player each weekday leading to the start of the season.

Ruth Eckerd Hall isn't the Acropolis – or the pyramids or the Taj Mahal or Beijing's Forbidden City, all of which Yanni has played since 1993 — but it's also not far from Tarpon Springs and ...