Photo: Mia Kondratyeva, Chloe Scofield, and Kay Roberts. Photo by Robert Clark
This past month, during the halftime of the Platinum game on 8/23/25 of the 2025 Summer youth basketball season, the 2024-25 Santa Monica Family YMCA Player of the Year was awarded to Chloe Scofield.
On hand to present the award were the recipient of the 2022-2023 Santa Monica Family YMCA Player of the Year-Kay Roberts, and the recipient of the 2023-2024 Santa Monica Family YMCA Player of the Year-Mia Kondratyeva. We all announced the winner in unison.
Chloe has won multiple awards over the past two years of her basketball career at the Santa Monica Family YMCA. She has always displayed the utmost sportsmanship, dedication, and perseverance in her quest to be the best that she can be.
At times, she was the only female player on the court in our top Platinum division. Playing against boys, she was out rebounding, scoring, and chasing down loose balls, showing that she was the toughest player on the court.
Chloe started as an absolute beginner to basketball only two years ago, and had to learn how to shoot and dribble, to which she not only mastered those skills, she then became an impact player by making 3-pointers and dribble drives to the hoop for scores.
Chloe also became one of the elite passers in our league, in which she had keen awareness to where her teammates would be, and an eagle eye for finding the open player.
Recently, she made the varsity team as an incoming freshman at Santa Monica High School. Chloe has become the first player to graduate from our program and go straight to varsity at Samohi.
Many times, I would see Chloe work on her skills and game on various afternoons in the gymnasium at the Y. Chloe was always seeking advice and help from other coaches, and eager to learn.
Chloe was a favorite among many fans, players, and parents who would marvel at how she showed that she owned the court and wouldn’t be bothered by anyone else. Furthermore, she never argued a call, never complained, always gave 100%, and would even play through injuries to help her team.
Chloe is the third female recipient of this most prestigious award in the history of the Santa Monica Family YMCA youth basketball program.
We wish to thank the Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation and UCLA Health for making this possible with all their help and support to our program.
But mostly, all of us at the Santa Monica Family YMCA want to thank Chloe Scofield for demonstrating and displaying what our youth basketball program is all about.
Congratulations, you deserve it!!
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