Bee’s Best: Margo Melgoza of West Campus is Sacramento’s Girls’ Prep of the Week

Margo Melgoza is in the middle of the surging volleyball season at West Campus High School.

The junior team captain and setter leads the Sac-Joaquin Section in aces with 107, and she has 153 kills for a Warriors program that is 26-1 overall and 5-0 in the Greater Sacramento League. The only loss was to powerhouse Christian Brothers.

For her overall efforts, Melgoza was voted as The Bee’s Girls’ Prep of the Week through fan voting. She had more than 5,500 votes for the Division IV program that is ranked sixth in the state at that level by MaxPreps.

West Campus is ranked 14th in the Sac-Joaquin Section for all programs.

This story was originally published September 23, 2022 at 12:19 PM.

Joe Davidson

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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.