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ORANGE COUNTY GIRLS ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 2025-26
Name: Jaslene Massey
School: Aliso Niguel
Year: Senior
Sports: Track and field, volleyball
Notable highlights: Jaslene Massey approaches track and field with the goal of being relentless, even when succeeding. Her belief in that mentality crystalized into a jaw-dropping performance at the CIF State Track and Field Championships on May 30.
The Aliso Niguel senior, who was seeded first in the discus, surpassed her season-best mark in the event by about 7 1/2 feet to establish a national high school federation record with a throw of 196 feet and 4 inches.
“That was the craziest thing,” Aliso Niguel girls track and field coach Patricia Lusar said. “(A) bomb.”
The record throw joined a long and diverse list of accomplishments by Massey, who is The Register’s Orange County Girls Athlete of the Year for 2025-26.
Girls Athlete of the Year Jaslene Massey of Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Sunday, June 14, 2026. Massey has won medals in the discus, shot put, volleyball and figure skating. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Girls Athlete of the Year Jaslene Massey of Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Sunday, June 14, 2026. Massey won state titles in the discus and shot put at this year’s CIF State Championships. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Girls Athlete of the Year Jaslene Massey of Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Sunday, June 14, 2026 holds medals from her career in the discus, shot put, volleyball and figure skating. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Girls Athlete of the Year Jaslene Massey of Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Sunday, June 14, 2026. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Girls Athlete of the Year Jaslene Massey of Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Sunday, June 14, 2026. Massey won state titles in the discus and shot put at this year’s CIF State Championships.(Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Girls Athlete of the Year Jaslene Massey of Aliso Niguel High School with some of this year’s medals in Aliso Viejo on Sunday, June 14, 2026. Massey won state titles in the discus and shot put at this year’s CIF State Championships. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
Aliso Niguel’s Jaslene Massey set meet records in the shot (52 feet, 3.5 inches) and discus (188 feet,1 inch) and was named field athlete of the meet at the Orange County Championships on Saturday, April 18, 2026. (Photo by Lou Ponsi)
Aliso Niguel’s Jaslene Massey is the Orange County girls athlete of the week after winning the shot put and discus at the CIF State Track and Field Championships on Saturday, May 30, 2026, in Clovis. The senior set National Federation High School and meet records in the discus. (Courtesy of Danny Werner)
“Jaslene is one of the most talented, motivated and influential student-athletes Aliso Niguel, Orange County and California has ever seen,” Aliso Niguel athletic director Andrew Mashburn said of the 5-foot-10 Massey, who also played volleyball in high school. “If she set her mind to it and had the time, she could have been elite in any sport.”
After repeating as the state champion in the discus, Massey won the state crown in the shot put with a mark of 52-9.
The Oregon signee became the first Orange County girl to sweep the shot put and discus at the state meet since Natalie Kaaiawahia of Fullerton in 1983.
The sweep punctuated a dominant spring for Massey, who was selected female athlete of the year by Orange County athletic directors.
In the shot put, she claimed her third consecutive CIF-SS Division 1 title and second straight CIF-SS Masters crown. In the discus, she swept the Division 1 and Masters championships for the second consecutive year.
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During the regular season, Massey won the shot and discus at all the top meets, from the Arcadia Invitational to the Orange County Championships. She posted a personal-best mark and meet record in the shot put with a 53-2 at Arcadia.
Massey was also a four-year varsity player in volleyball as a middle blocker for the Wolverines. Her pairing of volleyball with track and field matched the sports her mother Popi Edwards competed in at UC Irvine.
Massey’s sports resume is so varied, it includes figure skating as a youth.
In the classroom, she earned a 4.34 grade-point average and was selected Wolverine of the Year, which is voted on by school faculty.
Massey also wrote an essay to earn the chance to speak at Aliso Niguel’s graduation.
“We’re super proud of her,” Lusar said. “She works so hard … and she is so nice, too.”
Massey’s mentality to be “relentless” helps drive her success.
She has listened to audio tapes of motivational speaker and best-selling author Tim Grover.
“He has a quote, ‘When you’re ahead, get even further ahead,’ ” Massey said. “That’s what we live by.”
Massey returns to competition this week in the USA Track and Field under-20 nationals and the Nike Outdoor Nationals at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field.
“I thrive on competition,” she said. “If bigger meets such as the Olympics, Worlds, come around, then I’ll probably shoot for that.”
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Jaslene Massey knows no other way.