Bee’s Best: Casa Roble’s Jason Lindahl wins fans’ vote for MVP award

Jason Lindahl is a young man with a lot of skills, statistics and friends.

Lots of family and friends as the Casa Roble High School senior quarterback was the runaway winner in The Bee’s 2021 online MVP vote.

Lindahl won the popular vote as one who made all the plays throughout a banner season. The Bee’s official Player of the Year and All-Metro teams will run later this month. Lindahl will receive worthy mention of his voting results.

Rams coach Chris Horner raved about Lindahl’s leadership throughout the season, one in which his star nearly led the program to another Golden Empire League championship.

Casa Roble didn’t win the GEL, but it did earn CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division V playoff victories over El Camino 51-34 and Union Mine 35-33 before falling to Hilmar to finish 7-5.

The 6-foot-1 Lindahl passed for 1,836 yards and 16 touchdowns with just three interceptions and he rushed for 1,012 and 13.

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Joe Davidson has covered sports for The Sacramento Bee since 1989: preps, colleges, Kings and features. He was in early 2024 named the National Sports Media Association Sports Writer of the Year for California and he was in the fall of 2024 inducted into the California High School Football Hall of Fame. He is a 14-time award winner from the California Prep Sports Writer Association. In 2021, he was honored with the CIF Distinguished Service award. He is a member of the California Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Davidson participated in football and track in Oregon.