North Oaks Health System recognizes 2017-18
student-athletes of the year
The North Oaks Sports Medicine
team and North Oaks Physician
Group orthopaedic surgeons are
pleased to announce that Jazmyn
Womack of Ponchatoula High
School, Kade Bleakley of St.
Thomas Aquinas Regional Catholic
High School along with Alana
Chandler and Sawyer Blankenship
of Springfield High School, have
received 2017-18 Student-Athletes of
the Year honors.
Recipients were selected from all
Student-Athletes of the Month for
both Tangipahoa and Livingston
parishes based on the number of votes
received via an online poll conducted
June 18-22, at www.northoaks.org.
Jazmyn
Womack
recently
graduated from Ponchatoula High
School. She was a strong forward for
the Lady Waves basketball team and
a four-year letterman in the sport.
She is a member of the Ponchatoula
High School’s 1,000 Points Club
and has signed with the University
of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Ragin’
Cajuns women’s basketball team.
Honors amassed during her high
school career include: belonging
to the 2015 Division I State
Championship
team,
All-State
honorable mention recognition for
the 2016-17 season, being named to
the All-District team as a sophomore
and junior and selection to the All-
Parish Tournament team for the past
two years. In her senior year, she was
honored as the 2017-18 district MVP
and named to the Louisiana Sports
Writers Association’s All-State second
team for Class 5A.
In the 2017-18 season, Womack
recorded seven double doubles in
points and rebounds. She averaged
18 points and eight rebounds per
game.
Lady Waves Head Basketball
Coach Patricia Landaiche points to
Womack’s game highs, including:
30 points and nine rebounds against
South Lafourche High School, 25
points and 10 rebounds against
Ouachita Parish High School and
forty-one points and nine rebounds
versus district rival Hammond High
Magnet School.
Off the court, Womack belongs to
the Student Council, Interact Club
and National Honor Society.
“Jazmyn was always eager to help
others and was involved in numerous
community service activities through
her school club memberships and
the Lady Waves basketball team,”
asserts Landaiche. “During the floods
of 2016 and 2017, she volunteered
in her community and with the
local Humane Society. She also has
participated in adopting a family
for Christmas with her basketball
teammates.”
St. Thomas Aquinas Regional
Catholic High School’s Kade Bleakley
played basketball for the Falcons for
four years.
As a point guard, he netted 18
points versus Archbishop Rummel
High School, 10 points against Lee
Magnet High School and 23 points
versus Parkview Baptist High School
this past season.
Bleakley also belonged to the
National Honor Society, Beta Club,
Key Club, Light Team and Campus
Ministry. He served St. Thomas as a
school ambassador and as a Wendy’s
High School Heisman school
representative.
Head Basketball Coach Raymone
Andrews notes that Bleakley always
made time to help his teammates
with homework or studying for a test.
Alana Chandler graduated from
Springfield High School as Student of
the Year with a 4.5 GPA. She plans to
study Civil Engineering and Business
at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette.
As a center/power forward in
her fourth year of play for the Lady
Bulldogs basketball team, she scored
a stat line of five points, six rebounds
and two assists this past season.
“Alana managed the locker room
with the best of them — controlling
and conducti ng herself with class,
showing compassion for others,
motivating a young team and leading
by example with ultimate effort and
hustle on the court,” remarks Lady
Bulldogs Head Basketball Coach
Byron Garner. “She was a coach’s
dream as it pertains to receiving
constructive criticism and being
accountable for on- and off-the-court
issues.”
In addition to playing basketball,
Chandler was a Springfield High
School cheerleader and member of
the golf team. She was recognized as
an All-American cheerleader and also
was active in Beta Club, Fellowship
of Christian Athletes, the Builders
Club, Leadership Council and the
Livingston Parish Talented Arts
Program in the discipline of theater.
Sawyer Blankenship graduated
from Springfield High School. He
played quarterback and linebacker
for the football team and also ran
track. A regional qualifier and District
MVP in both sports, he also belonged
to the Beta Club, and Fellowship of
Christian Athletes.
“Sawyer has been a significant part
of our program for four years,” notes
Head Football Coach Ryan Serpas.
With more than 100 service hours,
Blankenship served as a youth group
leader at Community Church of
Springfield and tutors special needs
students.
Blankenship was junior class
president and received the Masonic
Lodge Honesty and Integrity Award.
He belonged to the school’s Media
Team and is certified in digital
media, Intro to Business Computer
Applications and Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR).
To learn more about North Oaks
Sports Medicine or the Student-
Athlete of the Month/Year program,
call North Oaks Public Relations
at (985) 230-6647 or visit www.
northoaks.org/sportsmedicine.